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Title: Making use of an EcoButton
Post by: Rajagra on Mon, 10 August 2009, 19:58:09

I noticed these (http://www.instructables.com/id/How_to_Hack_the_Eco_Button_to_do_other_things/) and wondered if they could be used as footswitches to send Shift or something similar. Unfortunately they work like this when pressed:

Sends Windows-R
Waits a second.
Sends ecobutton
Sends

That runs an app that puts the PC in standby.

Has anyone opened one of these up to see what's inside? It's a long shot, but maybe it can be rewired to send something else.

Title: Making use of an EcoButton
Post by: skriefal on Mon, 10 August 2009, 21:35:08

You could always write a simple app named "ecobutton" that toggles Shift state, or pops up your favorite app launcher (Launchy, Find & Run Robot), etc.  Not ideal, perhaps, but might be useful to someone.

(Edit: Okay, so that's effectively what they're doing in the page that you linked to.  Oh well...)