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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:40:11 JST Miakoda

   Man... My video server shuts itself down on ups... but I still have to go down there and power it back up. 😞

   I sure do wish the IPMI in that thing was usable. 🤔 I wonder how much of a pain it would be to wire up a Zigbee module and a relay to do it.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 02:46:05 JST Miakoda

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     • steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

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     I avoided that because often power doesn't just come back on. It often goes on, off, and on again. With a depleted ups, there would not be enough battery to get it booted, and then complete shutdown again - which even if there was enough battery, I don't know how the daemon would handle a state that changed to offline and low battery before the daemon was loaded.

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     steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ (steeph@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 02:46:06 JST steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

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     @hellomiakoda Usually there is a BIOS setting that makes it automatically turn on whenever it gets power. Maybe that can be used to bring it back up?

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 05:17:11 JST Miakoda

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     • Josh Rivers

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     @steeph

     My UPS is older and doesn't have the ability to change settings like when to turn back on.
     I'm thinking JetKVM might be very useful when they have the ATX board out.

     Not a high priority, I doubt I'm going anywhere away from home for at least the next 4 years. So having nothing to watch while away post power failure isn't likely.

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     Josh Rivers (joshrivers@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 05:17:12 JST Josh Rivers

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     • steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

     @hellomiakoda @steeph I’m with you…I prefer the manual restart. The way I see people handling the automation is to use a RPi or something as the NUT server,l and only having it tell the UPS to really turn back on once it has a sufficient battery level. Something similar could also be wired to the power switch jumper on your server motherboard? Really all of it only seems worthwhile to me if I needed to recover from power outages while offsite.