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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
That was great Aidan and well done on putting all that together, looks like a very capable setup 
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Thanks Mike
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Originally Posted by glend
Thanks Aidan, I enjoyed that. One question, how do you turn on and off the computer itself that is controlling it all? I can see how your IP Switch could power it up, but how does it get shutdown and restarted? I suppose you could have the power button pushed in on a PC system unit and it would come up as power was applied by the switch but for a laptop most of them seem to have a momentary power switch these days that needs to be pushed to start. You have given me some ideas for my observatory, thanks again.
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so a couple of things on this. in the computer Bios settings you can set the computer to boot up when the power is turned on. this is particularly important because if you have a power outage then as soon as the power comes on it will boot up again. So, if you have that set up you can power the computer remotely with the iP power switch, you can manage the switch remotely through a browser without the computer being turned on. Having said that, for me, i just have the computer on permanently.