Nice contribution.
Just wanted to note that I haven't seen reference to the Noisy Power Filtering & Surge Suppression that you get from larger UPS boxes. Is that actually inherent in these little packs?
This question likely belongs over in the primary thread talking about these.
Out of curiosity, let's say that the 6 hour delay is met and you hub shuts itself down. Then 15 minutes later the power is restored, but your UPS never ran out of battery power. What restarts your hub?
most ups can be set to reboot when power is restored at least the apc models.
Correct. But if the UPS never shuts off but the hub does, there doesn't seem to be anything, other than a human, to restart the hub itself.
ups. with wifi switch between it and the hub. that is what i do.
I just do it manually.
also i tested a lot of wifi switches and many do not turn back on after power outage..
i recommand kasa or tplink that do.. and above that can set a schedule to turn on every few hours even if that fails.. i have a house always empty 1300 miles away so am very carefull to try and not have to take emergency trips to reboot crap.
Anyone know of a good alternative for the board as it’s OOS from the link
When I ordered from these guys last year the Color: 1 Channel Module was the same micro-USB only version as the Banggood one.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001282850260.html
Edit: Yikes!!!
Be careful of "+" and "-", You should follow the direction of "+""-" on the PCB.
If you put wrong direction, charging chip will be destroyed.
Also, both the 2 and 3 cell versions have the USB C connector (aka blip circuit).
This maybe far fetched and not even work. So in the other thread about this mini-ups, someone discovered a 2 cell version, which did not work because there was a blip on switching from wall to battery power, just over 1 second and long enough to crash the hub.
So because I'm cheap, and like to make use of stuff I already have, I came up with this. Hope it works
Yureeka, It works. Going on 20 hours with my Hub on dual battery backup.
With the variable quality of chinese battery packs, maybe this is a bad idea...."My Hubitat ran for 24 on battery before being consumed in the resultant fire, which killed all my automations" I'm joking, but you can never be too careful with lithium cells.
Tis the season...
Any prevailing opinions on sourcing these modules ? No US based supplier vouching for their product? Is one just as viable as the next?
I've had my share of knock-offs of knock-offs not getting everything as "rock solid" or "safe" as the original.
Nice, generally speaking, daisy-chaining UPS' is a bad idea - however that doesn't really apply to DC power supplies.
I compared my working board to the link above, the Aliex photos match 100% with my working unit...but you know about aliex and descriptions, although they are good about disputes
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