UPS for broadband router

[Snow3]

Unfortunately, I could not find this information in the manual.

It simply lets the mains power pass through directly to your device. The battery and inverter only activate when there's a power outage.

So UPS's standby power consumption is very low. It's only using energy to maintain its internal electronics, like charging the battery and monitoring the power status. This typically falls within a range of 1W to 5W. I guess.

[Snow3]

Exactly

[Olivia431]

These units can be kept on standby and charged periodically, then connected when required. While a brief service interruption may occur during reconnection, this approach helps conserve energy efficiently.

Regards:

Jason 

[is74]

Hi, did you find an answer to this, if so, do you have a link you could send to the product please? I’d really like to keep the hub running 24/7  

There’s a very irritating bug in the Smart Hub 2 that I encounter every time there’s a power cut or the fuse trips on the consumer unit (which happens frequently as I have a dodgy leaking outside plug socket).

Anyone know if there’s a way I can submit a bug to the developers?

Here’s the bug if anyone is interested:

If you have DHCP turned off - which I do because I run a PiHole to block adverts on the home network, and so I use the PiHole’s DHCP & DNS instead - whenever there’s a power cut, the Smart Hub 2 can’t access the internet anymore.  You have to either do a factory reset or turn its own DHCP on for a few seconds.

It seems the router needs to use BT’s DNS on startup or it has a wobble. Strangely it’s fine on reboots, it’s just power cuts  

I’m a software engineer so it’s fairly easy for me to do this each time but explaining the steps to the wife and kids isn’t easy at all.  The factory reset is easy enough but then I have to manually go in afterwards and turn off DHCP again. 

cheers and sorry for highjacking your post

[licquorice]

You may be a software engineer but something isn't configured right with your system. I use a Pi for Pihole, DNS and DHCP with DHCP disabled on the hub and experience no such problems.

[is74]

You’re right that I’m not a network engineer or expert in networks if that’s what you’re suggesting. 

Seems odd it only happens with power cuts though.

Was there any hoops you had to jump through, any special config on the router or Pi, that you did to make yours so stable?  Perhaps I’m missing something. 

cheers

[licquorice]

Nope 

[licquorice]

I assume you have given the Pi's Ethernet adapter and WiFi adapter different static IP addresses.

[is74]

I’ve got WiFi disabled on the Pi but the Ethernet is static.  Mine goes from the SH2 via Ethernet to a gigabit switch then via Ethernet to the Pi

[licquorice]

Can you temporarily bypass the switch and see if that makes any difference? Shouldn't do but you never know.