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December 09, 2016, 07:55:37 PM |
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Just offering some insight here, and things may have changed from a year ago when I personally was looking for a similar option... to either be able to remotely power down, or to reset systems if the systems froze. The PSUs/UPS type systems that do this tend to be on the pricey side. Some recommended using a Raspberry Pi and to basically project box a device to trigger the reset on the motherboards.
An option to consider, might be something like the Wemo devices, if you are ok with hard offs and hard ons (not safe shutdowns through software); and to pair the basic Wemo Wifi Plug AC switch with an Amazon Echo.
You can use the Echo to control the Wemo to turn on and off remotely. You can also set up a basic IFTTT Applet to follow rules.
Now if you wanted to go a step further, to control a group of miners and do safe shutdowns, and boots:
Just again, thinking about how to do this for a reasonable amount of money especially if you have a lot of machines:
Wemo powering a system not mining, any old laptop or PC, with a set IP. This system runs nothing, just sits on or off.
Echo paired to Wemo. You can trigger the AC Wemo with you iPhone or IFTTT.
You write a small script and compile it into an EXE or BAT file; (this would be for GPU rigs running an OS), that you put in the StartUp folder, so it runs on startup.
- Script Pings Static IP on "AC System" on intervals of say every 5 minutes. - Script loops if Ping doesnt timeout. - If AC computer has been triggered to off state, and is offline, Script runs a standard "shutdown" sequence through Windows/OS, or reboots. - If All Rigs are off, you could use a separate StartUp script, installed on AC system, to "wake on lan" all the other systems (miners), which would be turned on after you Wemo AC the AC system on.
That's my two cents on this. The options to do this unfortunatley, at least as of a year ago, were so limited. The cheapest item I found was a $400 device that allowed for basically every thing above... but only on 1 breaker (20 Amps)... it wouldn't actually wire into motherboards, it did it all over your network to do the shutdowns and WOL.
Hope this helps... And again, perhaps things have changed in the last year and now a product exists.
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