gharris999;475624 Wrote: > Actually, I'm on the Touch hwbeta, for which I have to thank the SD & > Logitech folks. I assume that this is due to the number of SlimDevices > I've purchased over the years (2 SB1s, 3 SB2s, 6 SB3s, 1 Transporter, 1 > Duet, 6 SBCs) rather than anyone at Logitech noticing this plugin or my > ravings elsewhere on these forums. > > Re downloads for SrvrPowerCtrl: hard to say. If you can believe > http://code.google.com/p/srvrpowerctrl/downloads/list, then some 1,500 > folks have downloaded it since the end of June. As far as SBS plugins > go, I have no idea if that is a pathetically small number or not.
That's nice to know. I'm sure it has to do with your involvement as a community developer. Shame you do not have download numbers split by releases. However, I ran a spreadsheet for fun. - Let say a PC is on 16hr/day without srvPowerControl, 8 hrs off, and 10hrs on/14hrs sleeping with the plugin. Let's imagine the 8 hrs off draw 0 current, which is totally wrong for most people: off is soft-off, this mode draws as much as sleep/hibernate. - If the PC draws 60W running (a conservative figure) and 15W sleeping, each of us running the plugin on the server are saving 4.5kWh per month. 18kWh June-to-Sept, 56kWh over a year. A financial gain of $6.2 over the year, woohoo. - Now, let say 1.500 downloads means 500 PCs/households using srvPowerControl: this entire population will save over the year $3.100, not quite enough for you to make a living --considering over a dozen players and the house that comes with it :-) More interestingly, the collective power savings would amount to 9GWh over 4 months, 27GWh over the year. Those 500 fine people would avoid the emission of about 13.5 tons of CO2/yr (quite conservative figure of 500g/kWh delivered). This is the equivalent of having planted +1100 trees on the 1st day of the year. 27GWh over a year is also the total, yearly electricity consumption of 2.5 US households (ahem.) So, you may go in the woods chop up to 100 trees each month, in case SBS|perl|users run you amok: you've earned that right. I will contribute $2 to your bail, in case the judge doesn't understand it that way :) http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recs2001/enduse2001/enduse2001.html http://www.agirpourlenvironnement.org/pdf/contenuCO2longue.pdf (PDF, in french: CO2/electric kWh, FR) http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/FactsFigures/FastFacts/index.asp -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
