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Wake On LAN, WakeOnLAN, shutdown software for Windows. A powerful WOL, ping, shutdown, GUI application.
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Looking for a power management solution for when power is lost. #173

Open keeper-oregon opened 4 years ago

keeper-oregon commented 4 years ago

I am currently using WakeOnLan to turn on and monitoring network devices and it is working just fine in my home/small-business office. In fact, the WakeOnLan APP has recently detected a network performance issue with my Netgear R6900P running in AP mode. I suspect it is a slow (4 weeks) memory leak issue and power resetting the Netgear resolves the issue.

What I am looking for is a way to automatically shutdown unnecessary network equipment when power is lost. So laptops can continue to run for hours and utilize our Internet providers "4 Hours of Service" when power is lost. Most of our power outages are 1-3 seconds and the network continues to run fine with UPS. We had 4 of these yesterday. Several months ago a 30 minute outage drained the UPS making the home network and VOIP & Land-Line phones dead.

I currently have several (4) APC & HP UPSs spread out through the house around critical network appliances. One of the APC UPS has the USB power reporting capability and is connected to a Synology DS918+ NAS server that has the capability to automagically turn its self off after N-seconds of power loss and starts back up when power is resumed. APC should have a version with the capability to turn off plugs that are protected by its battery.

I acquired two Wyze Plugs thinking I could launch a command or application to turn the power off to other appliances via wireless capability of the Wyze Plugs before shutting down the Synology (Linux OS). The only way currently is via voice commands to Alexa or Google Assistant.

I have community/forum questions and requests into APC, Wyze, and Synology at this time.

Any recommended solutions or suggestions?

Moopere commented 4 years ago

Hello keeper-oregon,

I'm not quite sure what you are asking. It seems you have a power outage solution already, via the APC/HP UPS. I haven't seen a UPS for many years that doesn't have a power out/shutdown solution so I'm sure the HP UPS's can also do this.

So any PC's or PC like devices (such as the synology) will likely have the capability to turn on and off due to power conditions.

If I'm reading your post correctly there are 'other appliances' that you want to turn off via wireless. What are these other appliances?

In my lab power availability is completely controlled via the UPS. The UPS management card determines what time of day power is allowed to be turned on and if there is a power outage the UPS signals servers and PC's after a time delay to switch themselves off.

Inside of the active hours determined by the UPS, individual servers are powered up or down via WOL, determined by schedule.