You are welcome, glad it was that simple.
You need to stop feeding the Gremlins after midnight.
CaliGirl, that flashing yellow icon in the upper right hand corner next to App means there is a firmware up date available. Always a good idea to keep a routers firmware up to date for security reasons. Though you might want to wait till you're on site so you can power cycle everything if need be.Ya, I can remotely log into Asus router and turn off the wifi radio signal and back up and that doesn't wake up wifi devices that should connect. Weird.
Ahh that would make sense @looney2ns ! The nest and wifi plugs might boot right back up while Asus takes a bit and while waiting they give up. That is what I need to know more about. How does a wifi remote switch and the the nest operate. Do they look for a signal in x amount of time and if no signal give up, or are they supposed to retry every few hours? Bc they certainly have power and a strong wifi signal at this point. Unfortunately I have google searched this topic and have not found technical info. I even called nest and the guy didn't know and said you just need to touch the nest and tell it to reconnect. I was like, hello, I just told you I am 4 hrs away.
I can easily get the Asus router on a UPS with the Dell.
I have a manual timer that power cycles the Asus router and camera switch once a week. So that if they every get locked up or need a reboot, there is something physical there to get it going. That is what the Nest needs and the wifi plugs but unfortunately I cant get physical timer on each one of those.
If power is cycled quickly & repeatedly, some electronics can get into a locked-up state, for any number of reasons unfortunately.
Absolutely, I had a business in a town that had very un-reliable power. The power may go off for 15 seconds, then come back on, then back off. May do this rapidly for a 2 or more minutes. I learned pretty quickly everything of importance needed a UPS, after several expensive equipment items were fried during these episodes.caligirl,
If power is cycled quickly & repeatedly, some electronics can get into a locked-up state, for any number of reasons unfortunately.
While powering up, there may be some reading/writing to a disk or flash memory. Incomplete writes could occur.
While powering down, the device may be storing status and various states of operational items (so as to "restore" those items upon powerup), and if the device is then told to power up, and shortly after, power is removed, the device can get confused.
I only have general knowledge in this area.
But Consider:
- Some devices include rebooting instructions such as "remove power, wait 15 seconds, then restore power".
- Connecting DC power to a device that has its power switch set to "'ON" is not "Best Practice". Inserting the DC connector does not always result in a nice, clean rise in voltage from 0 to 12v (or 5V, 24V, whatever) A so-called "step waveform". Especially if the connector has oxidation. What the device sees is many up and downs in voltage over a short period of time, and then eventually settles down to a steady voltage. See pic of a power-up waveform.
"Best Practice" is to connect power only when the device powere switch is OFF. After power is connected, then turn the device ON.
But it sounds like you and looney2ns may have figured out the problem.....
Fastb
May possibly also solve the client's not reconnecting issue as well, ya never know.
First of all I agree with everybody else, get a UPS. You can put your Blue Iris PC, PoE switch, modem, and router all on the same UPS but your runtime will be shorter. This is good for short infrequent outages, but if you have a lot of outages consider putting the modem and router on their own UPS which will keep the internet up longer.On another point, I can not recommend wifi WeMo and TPLink switches. I have 3 for power cycling the cameras, Dell computer and another device. After the recent power failure, not one of those came back online, now I am unable to control them remotely. How hard is it to design a device that reconnects to wifi after a power loss?? Oh and the Nest Thermostat dropped off line as well. I guarantee you all I need to do is unplug and re plug the devices to get them back online but unable to do so remotely
None of these devices can consistently recover from a power failure and reconnect on their own so plan accordingly: