Save to power off APs every night?

[da_anton]

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!

[vignesh_ramasam]

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

[da_anton]

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?

Br

Alex

[vignesh_ramasam · Accepted solution]

Hello da_anton,

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

Regards,

Vignesh

[da_anton]

thanks!