Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-17 Thread Thanasis
on 11/17/2014 03:06 AM thegeezer wrote the following: snip the only way forward that i see would be to get a small device a la raspberry pi, and have that run apcupsd on it. you can then have that device run wake on lan if it detects the power is good, and trigger remote shutdown when not.

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, November 14, 2014 08:53:13 PM Thanasis wrote: I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power to the PC, and consequently the PC stays

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-16 Thread thegeezer
On 15/11/2014 16:47, Daniel Frey wrote: If the above fails (if the above does indeed fail, some troubleshooting should happen to try to figure out why it doesn't work), KILLDELAY is the parameter you likely seek, but it is dangerous. If you set this it will wait x seconds after a shutdown was

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Mick
On Friday 14 Nov 2014 18:53:13 Thanasis wrote: I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power to the PC, and consequently the PC stays off.

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 11:35 AM Mick wrote the following: On Friday 14 Nov 2014 18:53:13 Thanasis wrote: I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power to

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 15/11/14 22:52, Thanasis wrote: on 11/15/2014 11:35 AM Mick wrote the following: On Friday 14 Nov 2014 18:53:13 Thanasis wrote: I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns,

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 03:54 PM Bruce Schultz wrote the following: If the UPS battery has not run flat before the mains power is restored, I see no reason why a UPS should kill the output power. The PC has an option in BIOS to Power On when the mains power is restored to it, without any need to press

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Bruce Schultz brul...@gmail.com wrote: If the UPS battery has not run flat before the mains power is restored, I see no reason why a UPS should kill the output power. So the BIOS has no real way of knowing that it should reboot again in that case. Obviously

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 Nov 2014 14:22:47 Thanasis wrote: on 11/15/2014 03:54 PM Bruce Schultz wrote the following: If the UPS battery has not run flat before the mains power is restored, I see no reason why a UPS should kill the output power. The PC has an option in BIOS to Power On when the mains

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 04:40 PM Rich Freeman wrote the following: On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Bruce Schultz brul...@gmail.com wrote: If the UPS battery has not run flat before the mains power is restored, I see no reason why a UPS should kill the output power. So the BIOS has no real way of

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 04:59 PM Mick wrote the following: On Saturday 15 Nov 2014 14:22:47 Thanasis wrote: The PC has an option in BIOS to Power On when the mains power is restored to it, without any need to press any button. So, once the UPS has initiated a shutdown to the PC, the PC will shutdown,

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Thanasis
on 11/15/2014 06:47 PM Daniel Frey wrote the following: On 11/14/2014 10:53 AM, Thanasis wrote: I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power to

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/15/2014 09:05 AM, Thanasis wrote: However, in the even that power is restored between the UPS kill and the time it actually turns off the mains will still not be cycled. Why would this be so? That was a musing, it wasn't based on testing. On most UPS systems I've seen when the power

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 Nov 2014 16:54:26 Thanasis wrote: on 11/15/2014 04:59 PM Mick wrote the following: Have you been through them and in particular the Full Power Down Test? If yes, did you wait long enough after the PC has powered down, for the UPS to also switch off (you can affect the

[gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-14 Thread Thanasis
I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power to the PC, and consequently the PC stays off. Regardless if the mains power returns soon after