Syncing USB port with monitor standby?

[SportSC4]

Hey all,
So I have a USB LED strip on the back of my monitor (ambient lighting type of thing). Is there any way to have it so that when the monitor goes on and off standby, the usb port will turn on and off in sync with the monitor?

 

[Paperlantern]

I doubt it, unless the USB port is ON the monitor, then it MIGHT be possible to have the USB ports sleep at the same time as the monitor, but even then most companies dont do that. I would think that the ONLY way to have this work would be to make it so the computer itself goes into stand by before anything else. Like, most power schemes have the monitor turn off before the system goes into stand by, but if you disable monitor sleep, and just make the system go into stand by say after, half an hour, that may work.

The only thing i see wrong with even this is a lot of the time keyboards and mouses are used to wake the computer up, by wiggling it or hitting a key, and many models of mouses and keyboards are USB, causing the computer to keep those rails on while in stand by, which would also power your led strip, even in stand by. I'm thinking this may be a lost cause unless there is some specific software someone knows about to do this.

 

[Swivelguy2]

It might be possible. You'd need something like this:

http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=4757843

And you'd have to write some sort of program that would turn the relay on and off, and have that program be executed by the task scheduler upon monitor shutoff and wakeup, somehow.

Edit: Or, perhaps you could tap into the monitor cable and run a relay off of that. That avoids the software part but makes the hardware trickier. Probably easier with VGA than with DVI/HDMI.