Basically, wanted a way to restore power in the event of power loss - like how your router turns back on as soon as the power comes back on, but for my NAS and mini PC serving all my web services. I do NOT want to become reliant on my home services and have everything knocked offline by a brownout.
Still can’t do much if my cat chews through a cable, or if we have a massive blackout, but that comes with the territory of it being a homelab I suppose. I don’t exactly have a trillion-dollar infrastructure.
I did this a couple months back and haven’t had an issue since. I’m not sure if I’ve had a brownout that reset power, but when I powered on the strip for my whole server shelf upon setting up my new OPNSense router, everything turned on as it should have.
WakeOnLAN
WOL doesn’t work if the machine is in S5 state, but it was a good thing to pick up regardless. I’m just going to link the Debian wiki - so easy it’s not worth documenting.
Power on AC
This is known by many names in the BIOS options…not unusual.
(I didn’t write these down at the time, so I need to take some time to reboot and note where exactly the options are - hence the WIP tag.)
Generally will be in Power, Advanced, ACPI, something of that general nature. “Restore on AC/Power Loss” or something of the sort.
In other news, I have two JetKVMs on the way that I look forward to messing around with. UPS et. al. eventually, but this works for now!
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