I think we have dozens of those things. Probably 3 or 4 have died, and
apparently the relays are normally open because when they die all the
outlets are OFF. The web GUI dying was an issue on the earlier revision.
The main draw to digital loggers is they're cheap and they're so simple
a caveman could reboot stuff. If I put in a site monitor and explain to
somebody "set the relay cycle column to 100 to reboot something" I don't
think that sticks as easily.
The other problem I have is not with the digital loggers unit
specifically, but once you have the reboot switch it can become a crutch
if the tech has the wrong perspective on it. If they reboot the device
and think, "There, I fixed it" then you may realize one day that there's
been a daily recurring issue that they "fix" every time by rebooting.
They can lean on the reboot switch so they never try to address the
underlying problem.
-Adam
On 1/31/2019 3:58 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Maybe they cleaned up their problems, but years ago (probably 10), they had
serious problems, and many people on the lists said they would never use
their products again. My experience was every time we needed to reboot
something, the web GUI was locked up, and we had to do a truck roll AND
reboot the web power switch which also rebooted everything plugged into it.
Which made it worse than useless, we would have been better off just
plugging everything directly into AC power and driving there to reboot
devices.
I guess my view is, with so many other choices, why buy one that gave us
such trouble at one point?
-----Original Message-----
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of SmarterBroadband
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:33 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Watchdog Device
They have been great for us. Only one failure I can think of and they
replaced it straight away.
We have moved over to the Pros now and these are holding up well.
I just wish they would do this model in a rack mount version....
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Andrews
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Watchdog Device
Have they improved the durability of their stuff? We went through so
many of the older versions that we gave up on them as a vendor. They
were great at replacing them but you can only have so many failures to deal
with...
Robert
On 01/30/2019 12:44 PM, SmarterBroadband wrote:
Digital Loggers Pro Switch does that for 8 sockets, and you get 8
sockets to control remotely.
https://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 2:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] Watchdog Device
Does anyone know of a inexpensive device that will ping an IP address
and if it misses so many pings power cycle an AC outlet?
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