topic Re: Save to power off APs every night? in Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor

Save to power off APs every night?

da_anton — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:28:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have some APs which are in areas where during the night no one is present. Does it harm the hardware if I switch them off every night (powering off the PoE port) and powering them on again in the morning or would it be better to let them just run?

Thanks!

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

vignesh_ramasam — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:34:37 GMT

Hello,

Hope you are doing well!

You can schedule a WLAN broadcasting time on all WLANs so that the WLAN will stop broadcasting accordingly.

I believe you are using the SmartZone controller to manage APs. Please confirm.

Regards,

Vignesh Ramasamy

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

da_anton — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:39:20 GMT

Hi Vignesh,

Hope you are doing well too!

Thanks for you fast reply. It's an unleashed setup. I'd like to save power (e.g. my R650 use ~8W constantly). So I'd like to prefer a complete power off via my switch.

da_anton

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

vignesh_ramasam — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:09:11 GMT

Hello Da_anton,

Let me know the switch model you have deployed.

Regards,

Vignesh

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

da_anton — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:46:35 GMT

It's a Ubiquity USW Pro 24 Poe

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

vignesh_ramasam — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:39:33 GMT

Hello Da_anton,

I am not sure if we have an option to schedule a power setting on Ubiquity switch ports. However, we should have an option to disable and enable the port.

You can schedule a WLAN on/off time as a workaround, so that on the specific time the WLANs will stop broadcasting.

Let me know your opinion about this.

Regards,

Vignesh

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

da_anton — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:52:36 GMT

Hi Vignesh,

the Ubiquity Controller has a REST service I can use to set the PoE state of a port. That already works.

But that was not the original intention of my question. The question is: will a nightly power off damage the AP hardware in the long run?

Alex

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

vignesh_ramasam — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:39:41 GMT

Hello da_anton,

No, the nightly power off won't damage the APs (hardware) in the long run.

Regards,

Vignesh

Re: Save to power off APs every night?

da_anton — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:45:28 GMT

thanks!