How good are your DIY skills ? I have a couple of solutions for you, but they involve some amount of DIY. The simplest is a relay with 12VDC coil and contacts rated 20-30A @ 120V. The relay coil can be driven by a 12V wall wart, plugged into a switched outlet.
You will need an RC snubber across the relay contacts to suppress arcing each time they switch current. This arcing, if not suppressed, will eventually destroy the contacts.
You will also need a reverse-biased diode across the coil, to suppress back EMF that occurs each time the controlling voltage is cut. This EMF can be damaging to any sold state device in the wall wart, such as a voltage regulator.
The other option is the same type relay, controlled by an IR receiver chip like the TinyIR2 kit by Tauntek.com (URL below). The TinyIR2 can be taught any IR remote code. It cannot drive a relay by itself, so you will need a relay driver circuit in-between. You will also need a 12VDC source for the TinyIR2 and relay driver circuit. A 12V wall wart with enough current rating to operate the TinyIR2 and relay coil (probably 100-300mA) should be adequate.
I have DIYed these options and they work fine. Paste the following URL into your browser to see a recent post on the same topic.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=15938148&postcount=5
http://www.tauntek.com/tinyir2-learning-ir-remote-control-receiver.htm
You will need an RC snubber across the relay contacts to suppress arcing each time they switch current. This arcing, if not suppressed, will eventually destroy the contacts.
You will also need a reverse-biased diode across the coil, to suppress back EMF that occurs each time the controlling voltage is cut. This EMF can be damaging to any sold state device in the wall wart, such as a voltage regulator.
The other option is the same type relay, controlled by an IR receiver chip like the TinyIR2 kit by Tauntek.com (URL below). The TinyIR2 can be taught any IR remote code. It cannot drive a relay by itself, so you will need a relay driver circuit in-between. You will also need a 12VDC source for the TinyIR2 and relay driver circuit. A 12V wall wart with enough current rating to operate the TinyIR2 and relay coil (probably 100-300mA) should be adequate.
I have DIYed these options and they work fine. Paste the following URL into your browser to see a recent post on the same topic.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=15938148&postcount=5
http://www.tauntek.com/tinyir2-learning-ir-remote-control-receiver.htm