A relay box for control from Linux

Project Scope

This little project is for DB0MHB. We want to be able to switch all sorts of devices from remote. We have a little Raspberry Pi as core machine which consumes decently little power, and I was looking for a relay board that uses bistable relays and thus does not consume power during the switching operation.

I found the following board:

http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/products/relay-modules/usb-relay/usb-rly16l-8-x-16a-latching-relay-module.html