CaliGirl
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Another great product that I find quite useful for remote locations is a web power switch like these:
http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html
https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Digital-Loggers-Outlets-Protection/dp/B00EZWD146
You can then reboot and control power remotely which you can do with other smart home solutions, but the real winner here is that is will monitor the internet by pinging sites every so often and reboot automatically when there are issues. You can program which outlets do what, so say I want my modem and router to reboot after it cannot ping google for 15 minutes. I want them both to shut off for 15 seconds, and the modem to come on in outlet 1 first, after 120 seconds then power up my router in outlet 2. Now hopefully internet is restored, if not I can say I want it to now wait 30 minutes before trying again, and then I want it to wait an hour before the next one and so on. SUPER handy as so many times a simple reboot is all that needs to be done to restore internet but that's not easy when its a remote location!
I have 80+ of these in operation at sites and like them a lot. Super inexpensive, and so handy. I can access and power cycle just a POE switch, or just an NVR or whatever I want all from a web page. It has saved literally hundreds of visits from techs for simple stuff. You may have zero need for one of these in many cases, but for those that have remote locations they are pretty nice.
Great concept and glad to hear you are having good experiences. How long have yours been installed?
I was looking into getting one of these but the there was a really bad review about them failing. I figured I might be introducing an added complexity that could take down my entire system. So I decided against it and got a simple wifi power switch that I can control with an app.
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BUYER BEWARE, 75% FAILURE RATE AFTER 1 YEAR, WE INSTALLED HUNDREDS OF THESE
By Beyond HiFi on May 1, 2015
Think you are saving money by buying this piece? Think again, we put hundreds out in the field on critical equipment. They are all ticking time bombs because they are failing left and right after about a year of use due to 12v/5v power supply failures of the main board or the actual relays failing themself. This has cost my company so much money with customers equipment going down causing us to drop everything and rush out to replace them with a different product. We've lost customers due to this being that they were so mad that EVERYTHING we plugged into these things goes off-line. You'll think they are gold until they fail (thus why they have such good reviews). Take it from someone who has EXTENSIVE experience with these units. BUYER BEWARE."
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