Always on Electrical Usage

Hmmm...I think its time to tackle the always on Electrical usage. Above is a screenshot from my Google Powermeter.  Notice that my average "always on" power usage is roughly a third of my total power usage.  On some days, that power usage is over a half of my daily power usage!

Really, if you look at my power usage in my previous blog (Phantom Power Usage), by far most of my always on power usage is from my HTPC.  Looking at my schedules, my HTPC really only needs to run for at most 4-5 hrs/day.  So, why is it running 24 hrs/day?

So this weekend, I'm going to look into this.  I've played with this concept before...which works setting it manually, now I just need to get it to work automatically.

I'll keep you posted.