I have a device that needs to be power cycled remotely because the office is locked during certain hours. All UniFi gear but their power plugs are gone it seems.
Any recommendations?
I am not a Unifi user so forgive the dumb question, but can you SSH into these devices? If yes, I would explore Ansible as a means of rebooting them on a regular basis. I do something similar in my environment. If Ansible detects a kernel upgrade in any of my linux boxes, it forces a reboot and an “apt autoremove”
There are other similar device you can get on Amazon Amazon.com: Monoprice Blackbird Pro 4-Outlet Smart PDU, IP-Based Remote Power Management Solution, Power Up, Power Down or Reboot Your Remote Equipment from Anywhere Over TCP/IP : Electronics
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Can you program a scheduled event to reboot the device?
Would a JetKVM with the power switch options work? This might give you a soft shutdown or reset which is nicer than power interrupt.
It is a Datacap Tran Server Credit Card box that has to be reset almost daily. It doesn’t respond to pings when it is down so maybe the Monoprice Blackbird can monitor that? I’ll look for the manual. Amazon suggests a MSNSwitch2 UIS-722b but it seems to be tied to an external web service.
Thanks for the suggestions!
I have used digital logger (https://www.digital-loggers.com/) equipment for several years for similar applications, but this is a somewhat different use case. The built-in software is pretty flexible; I have it set to power cycle equipment on ping loss, open doors via desktop shortcut, etc. The Din Relay is what I use to power cycle low-voltage equipment (wire the power lead through the relay). If it is a pingable device, it can auto-reboot, and/or you can give the client a shortcut to do the same. It will require an external power supply, but will take 12-28V to power. I have not ordered from them in about a year, but they still seem to be operating. Of course their direct switch ac plug will work just as well. May be overkill, but an option.
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