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Have a close loo at Post 87 of MacTester's build. The solution is the front panel power indicator (LED), that comes from a header on the motherboard. Intel motherboards (assume others as well) allow you to display sleep mode in a different LED state e.g blinking. On the NUC you can set this a dual colour mode which reversers the polarity of the signal for dual colour LED's, this can easily be detected and used to drive micro controller or other inverter cutout circuit.
Kiwi
Kiwi, thank you for details. Unfortunately I couldn't find the dual color LED feature on Giga motherboard, but GA-H77TN should comply intel's thin mini-itx standard, I will test to verify this.