UniFi SmartPower USP-PDU-Pro - Complete Overview!

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The UniFi SmartPower USP-PDU-Pro just came out of Early Access this week! This PDU has some pretty slick features that I discuss in this video - but do you even need a PDU-Pro in your rack? Watch to find out!
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00:00 Intro
00:44 What is a PDU?
01:43 USP-PDU-Pro specifications
03:08 Let's Talk About the 4 Network Ports
06:20 UniFi Network PDU-Pro settings
10:14 Final Thoughts
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@davelund8 Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with the comment on the scheduling of the outlets. I was hoping to do just that with the USP-Strip I have. The modem power cycle is a great feature, but would be great to have the ability to setup control for primary and secondary modems for those with dual WAN.

@Bostonaholic Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the news! I've been waiting for this to come out of EA and in stock!

@carlyleroberts3995 Жыл бұрын

Excellent review Chris. On seeing that the power ports could be controlled by software I was hoping there was a timer just like you wished! For my application that would be really helpful. Excellent product!

@JasonsLabVideos Жыл бұрын

With the rack fans, I usually buy Noctua fans and use a 12V adapter, this allows airflow out the top. I also put a spacer between the fans and the rack so there is no noise wind turbulence

@ecu8r Жыл бұрын

Just bought one and will get it installed on my new 9U rack I got. I', trying to keep it all white and silver coordinated. I was wondering how to use those ports up front but my setup is simple so I will only be using the FE port for my setup. Really excited to get it installed and as always thanks for giving us such insightful and helpful information, I always watch your videos, thanks man.

@michaelminasian4891 Жыл бұрын

That modem power cycle feature is amazing.

@luizrms Жыл бұрын

Thank you Chris! I was expecting this video as soon as I saw it came out of EA. I wonder if Unifi could push a firmware update for this PDU to communicate with an UPS and gracefully shutdown the devices such UDM PRO/SE and specially NVR. - This would be amazing,

@corkhead0 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Is it possible to get an alert once a receptacle or the PDU as a whole goes over a certain wattage? It would be nice to know if the PDU or something plugged in to it is about to trip the breaker.

@dannyvfilms Жыл бұрын

The only experience I have with a PDU is a unit that has two power inputs on the back, each for different power sources to handle power outages. I'm trying to figure out how I feel about having only one power plug on the back.

@EscapeEFT Жыл бұрын

Yes Yes finally. Needed this 2 years ago.

@DavidC-rt3or Жыл бұрын

Does it have any api access and/or command line access via ssh? in order to do your own grouping/controlling/scheduling.. for example, if it was plugged into a ups, and you have automation that detects when it's on/off battery, to then gracefully shutdown the device and/or configure the plug to be off. and once power is back on re-enable the plug(s)

@gustavocabezal38 Жыл бұрын

Would the next generation gateway pro be used for the splitting of the isp for dual firewall support? or the use an UDM Pro and a gateway pro

@taccardit Жыл бұрын

Curious if you'd plug this into a UPS directly? If so, one would need quite the large UPS to support the overall power capability of this PDU.

@dillard715 Жыл бұрын

I hope they add a timer kinda thing so it turns on an off on a schedule per outlet that you can change. Same for the smaller pdu.

@sunnydays1238 Жыл бұрын

Is there a way to turn an outlet on and off based on the ambient temp the device detetcs, so it turns on your fans at a certain temp?

@handlealreadytaken Жыл бұрын

So are you suppose to plug the switches into the USP-RPS and that into this to get coverage for power outage redundancy?

@rtm135 Жыл бұрын

Hey Chris thanks for this video. My PDU-Pro just arrived this weekend and this video will help set it up. Do you have any recommendations for a decent network rack that plays nice with Ubiquiti?

@r000tbeer Жыл бұрын

Modem reboot - are there any settings/limitations for this, like wait time? If the modem is getting a firmware update or the link is down there's no point in rebooting it constantly.

@-tsvk- Жыл бұрын

Regarding the discrepancy/confusion with the Ethernet ports: is there any possibility that your Early Access hardware differs from the final, released hardware? There might have been changes.

@glennmcgurrin8397 Жыл бұрын

My experience is pdu's typically do NOT have surge protection and I certainly usually don't want it to. Daisy chaining surge protection can create issues and the pdu should be downstream of your power conditioning equipment like a ups with surge protection for a basic pdu. Some pdu's include bypass functionality and those still won't be surge protectors but they will be both upstream and downstream of the ups with an ability to bypass the ups for maintenance.

@christopherjohnmortal2816 Жыл бұрын

I concur...we had a 300v+ lately from just 250v max and all PDUs are ok. But the Servers and ruijie manage switches were fried. However, the unifi pro switches were ok. Hence...unifi pro switches are quite built well as well as the UAP access points as they have survived that 300v+.

@webluke Жыл бұрын

This is the evolution of the single power plug they came out with a few years back. For a "Pro" device, it would have been great if it had dual power and you could switch ports between power sources, so one is the grid, the other is UPS, and you could keep critical equipment backed up but have the ability to manage it from UniFi. The redundant router HA system seems a little strange to have it run through this, along with not having dual service support. That seems like it would need to be its own device or have the software manage dual UDMP with individual ISPs and do load balance but failover when you lose internet.

@eduardovazquez3357 Жыл бұрын

We use alot the snap one wattbox. We love it!

@handlealreadytaken Жыл бұрын

For a pro device, I'd expect more than 1Gps ports as well. The ports offer no value to me with this device and that's unfortunate.

@TheDrew2022 Жыл бұрын

@@handlealreadytaken The ports are not made for switching, redundant ethernet is there typically so that you can remain connected to the network when a switch goes down, redundant layer 2 links. If this thing has one port, is conected to a core switch, and the switch goes down, good luck rebooting anything. Having two ethernet ports ensures that you are connected to both switches in a redundant pair.

@CalvinHenderson Жыл бұрын

@@TheDrew2022 what providers are slowly deploying faster than 1g internet connections. Users with 1g or less will be fine with the port but anyone with 2g or faster will not. My provider updated my ethernet input to support their 2g service for my connection and if I subscribed to it this solution would not work for that use-case.

@kmcat Жыл бұрын

its a UniFi product do you really think it will do load balancing

@gatekeeper501st Жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, I was wondering what are the fans you're using in the rack, are they any good in your opinion ?

@bigusdallastexamas5740 Жыл бұрын

The Wattbox line is somewhat similar albeit significantly more expensive, but also far more feature rich. Already included are time based events and the ability to set up ping monitoring to any local IP or web address. Based on those ping results you can have an outlet or group of outlets power cycle based on a selected number of ping timeouts over a selected amount of time. An important feature Ubiquiti needs to add is the ability to specify individual outlets as reboot only for network devices. This prevents you from remotely turning off your network device and losing the connection to turn it back on.

@coldracerx Жыл бұрын

I was going to call out Wattbox as well. I love them and use them all over my home.

@bigusdallastexamas5740 Жыл бұрын

@@TheSpiv while I agree in principle, in my experience it was almost exclusively limited to the 700 series 12 outlet model. Snap was also very good about stepping up and covering them well outside of the warranty period plus a $100 dealer credit.

@innovativesolutionsav1684 Жыл бұрын

@@bigusdallastexamas5740 Wave 2 is already happening. Learned my lesson on the first Wave when I had systems failing 1400 miles away. They didn't pay me to fly there to replace the units. Luckily 1 failed while onsite.

@innovativesolutionsav1684 Жыл бұрын

@@TheSpiv 100%. My guess is Mr Chow's driver will provide additional integration for this PDU. Game to test another Smart PDU before placing it into projects??

@S30Build Жыл бұрын

using latest non EA firmware only the FE port on the front connects to switch to bring online. the rear isp and front 2 gbe ports arent shown or working in unifi network

@danielanderson9052 Жыл бұрын

Can you remotely access this PDU-PRO, so can power cycle a specific device at a particular site location?

@jdeee.mp3 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the ISP modem reset service is flawed and on my USP-Plug at least, it resets the modem often for no reason, and occasionally just turns off the plug and I have to manually turn it back on. So I've had to disable that "feature". Do you encounter this problem with the Plug, as well as with other devices like the UDM power port and SmartPower ports?

@mvp_kryptonite Жыл бұрын

The number one use case of your time based power schedule idea is managing Christmas lights 🎄🌲🎄🌲 Come on Ubiquiti! Festive season is approaching

@acrusso1 Жыл бұрын

Can you plug it into a apc or cyber power battery and just use one of the apc/cyber power battery ports?

@christianbrandt6710 Жыл бұрын

Can you please make a video about Firewallrule setup in regards to a IOT VLAN where a cam for example on the IOT VLAN can talk to my NAS on my Main network. I cant figure out how to make this happen. Thank youuu :)

@PeterDLeslie Жыл бұрын

will there be an australian power version? 240volt aussie plugs etc

@TheYamakasi007 Жыл бұрын

When it will be avalible with EU sockets?

@mandalorian2010 Жыл бұрын

This video reminded me that I am not signed up for early access, so I fixed that. I am also curious, if Ubiquiti is going to going down this route with their Unifi Lineup, if they have something in store in the UPS area or amaybe if this product will support hookup to an external set of batteries to run uninterupted. I am looking forward to see where they go in the future.

@Michaelhz-ke1kc Жыл бұрын

So they added a 2-port switch for the WAN connection. I see this often to "split" a single WAN connection to redundant firewalls when the ISP gives one handoff. Still, adds another point of failure. Granted, if the PSU source fails, you have more problems due to a lot of the unifi stuff I have encountered have single power inputs. Wonder what the longevity on these will look like compared to the likes of APC or Eaton.

@mathesonstep Жыл бұрын

Great video, although I do have some questions, how does the USP determine if the internet connection goes down, if it is pinging an address can it be configured? Does it just use the uplink monitor in the UniFi controller or can it be set differently? and I’d love to know more about the WAN failover, I wonder if it could be used with pfSense, I assume not

@jaybrooks4242 Жыл бұрын

I'd imagine since it's being managed by Unifi, the controller would be able to notify the PDU that the WAN connection is down. Just a guess.

@ATGEnki Жыл бұрын

Anyone know how long the cord is for this thing? Can't seem to find a number anywhere.

@MatthewTowns509 Жыл бұрын

Chris, I hit you up on Twitter about this but have you had any success with using the USB-C ports. I was interested in this and got it after watching your video, but I have had two now and they charge or power up nothing.

@wmcomprev Жыл бұрын

The auto reboot of the modem is nice. However, if working remotely and there's poor Internet, not no Internet which would trigger the auto reboot, is there a manually selectable reboot option for each port? If you manually turn the port off to reboot the device, you can't turn it back on because you just lost your Internet access, so a reboot option would be needed. The recommendation is to usually power the device off for 30+ seconds before turning it back on. Does the auto reboot do this? If a manual reboot exists, does it do this?

@NeilAcquatella Жыл бұрын

I'm still figuring out this (amazing) PDU, in conjunction with Unifi Power Backup - but no USP DC Port...

@ColbyPerry Жыл бұрын

Question - If you firmware update the PDU, does it power cycle all the ports or is it like a POE switch where it holds the power to the individual ports?

@inferKNOX2 Жыл бұрын

One would imagine that it is works like Dell's iDRAC, which can by updated, rebooted, etc, all without affecting the running of the server itself.

@cbremer83 Жыл бұрын

A real good feature would be the ability to hood Unifi backup power to this to run non unifi equipment. Have a battery or two in the rack feeding the PDU in power outages. Then have the ability to send shutdown commands over the network from the controller to the servers. Similar to how a lot of UPS devices can shutdown systems via USB or network.

@INTEK_MOVIE_BASIE Жыл бұрын

Hullo Chris, what causes epmp2000 to hang while in use

@TheCluelessReefer Жыл бұрын

This may seem like a dumb question, but is this intended to plug directly into a power backup like the SmartPower RPS Pro? If I'm wanting everything that is plugged into this to have backup power...thats the idea.

@DergEnterprises Жыл бұрын

Finally, a PDU that'll fit my NES power adapters!!

@Lewis4568 Жыл бұрын

Very nice video 👌

@stuxb Жыл бұрын

Chris what UPS would you recommend for a simple Unifi setup (e.g. UDM-SE, 24-port poe switch, some APs and cameras)?

@mr.advocatusdiaboli1745 Жыл бұрын

If rackmount, Eaton 5p 650 is what I may go for with a similar but fairly full 24 Port switch

@terryjohnson3100 Жыл бұрын

Just updated my pdu pro to 6.3.11... No change that I can see on the network ports.

@brandonreidy6989 Жыл бұрын

They need a Fallback configuration for those ports. Each port you can config if you want it to default to OFF or ON when the UDM loses power and comes back on. Would solve that fan on issue. Would be nice to see some probes for those USB-C ports. Ambient air sensor...to do some IF/OR/THAN statements for fans and such. A lot of possibilities.

@MikeKobb 11 ай бұрын

I came here to write this.

@bsem68 6 ай бұрын

So what happens is all ports are live on power-up, and then ONLY once the PDU Pro boots up, it will then shut them off as per settings (disable)? That is not good.

@brandonreidy6989 6 ай бұрын

@@bsem68 not sure I understand. Fallback is only for when the OS is not booted. It's like flipping something from normally open to normally closed. You tell the system what state your want the specific device to power back on at. Once the OS is up it's back to normal operations.

@bsem68 6 ай бұрын

@@brandonreidy6989 Ok, maybe I misunderstood the video. So this does retain the last state of each port when AC is lost and restored?

@shadow.banned Жыл бұрын

I'm sure this'll all be a great setup someday, but I have to build a project now and I don't have 16 months to wait for a PoE adapter.

@VincentNoben Жыл бұрын

Was the switching of the painting in the background on purpose or just randomly redecorated between shots 😄 ?

@Chrishuff1 Жыл бұрын

Does it protect against surges too?

@MacGuru Жыл бұрын

Chris - Great video. I would suggest looking at the Wattbox which has great software and is feature rich from my experience. Every client Ubiquiti install I also put in a Wattbox which has saved me multiple times.

@S30Build Жыл бұрын

does connecting the FE port to the UDM Pro limit your ISP speed to 100mb/s?

@jasonklems8584 4 ай бұрын

No, the isp port on the back is simply a passthrough. meaning , you dont need to use it; you can simply plug the FE port into your core switch or router and manage it the same way you manage the rest of your unifi stack.

@bradhollan6559 Жыл бұрын

Chris, I think you implied early in this video (At about 1:46) that the USP-PDU-Pro has surge protection and power conditioning capabilities. Did I understand that correctly? Can you please clarify? Thanks for sharing your helpful videos!

@minghuiyu2073 Жыл бұрын

Interface is better than my CyberPower PDU41001. I guess the function is also better. Cannot wait to get one.

@davidputt4638 8 ай бұрын

I loved your video. There was a little background noise. Have you ever considered a noise canceling mic?

@JP_75 11 ай бұрын

Do they do a 240V AC United Kingdom version?

@bothorsen4292 Жыл бұрын

So do they support having two of these? If not, then they have replaced one single point of failure (UDM Pro) with another (USP-PDU). I'm *really* looking forward to the day when we have a way to set up HA in UniFi

@bothorsen4292 Жыл бұрын

One answer to this is that we will probably see more internet downtime than PDU downtime. But as long as we have a single point of failure, we don't have a true HA setup.

@DarkGenesis0 Жыл бұрын

Support Power Off for QNap NAS ?

@d2ws3b19 Жыл бұрын

What type of connector is on the mains power supply cord? I'm guessing that since total current draw is rated for 15A on 125VAC that it is the residential standard NEMA 5-15 plug and not the commerical/data center standard NEMA 5-20 or NEMA 5-30L plugs... Shame - it would be AWESOME to be able to slam on or more of these into the 5-30 receptacles on the back of a few of my large dc UPSs

@d2ws3b19 Жыл бұрын

I guess I could always 'modify' the mains cable...

@brucecros3034 Жыл бұрын

Just watched your show and notice that you switch off your server fans as they were too noisy. I have a similar setup and I use NOCTUA NF-A14 PWM fans which deliver the same air flow as the ones that you have at a fraction of the noise. Maybe worth a look.

@benlerch7274 6 ай бұрын

Any plans for an update on the potential maturing software?

@alexmart2019 Жыл бұрын

Does it have battery when losing power ?

@johnpoldo8817 Жыл бұрын

Wow, I really like the automatic Internet sensor that power cycles the modem. Our company manages over 50 networks and the most common failure is ISP’s equipment. A simple power cycle restores it. I question the quality of Internet sensor because some ISPs fail by reducing speed 95%. Internet works, but painfully slow. Overall, this looks like a great device.

@Chris_In_Texas Жыл бұрын

They sell the little plug as well that will do the same thing. Its pretty cheap and just the single plug on it. Its $20. USP-Plug-US The only downside to the plug is that it has to connect wirelessly to the network, and not hardwired in. I am running dual failover WAN ISP's and have it on the primary modem. So typically it will fail over to the 2nd ISP and nothing will happen with the plug. Its only if the 2nd ISP fails and then it will reboot the primary link's modem to see if it can get it back. Most of the time with ours it's just a network hit on the primary ISP network and back up pretty quick. It fails over just long enough to mess up all your work VPNs and then fails back.

@psycl0ptic 2 ай бұрын

can the USB-C ports be power cycled too?

@nytenorwinsor Жыл бұрын

I am curious, on how this device would work with an uninterruptible power supply? Would you just plug it into the UPS outlet and go from there?

@theBEACHB0Y Жыл бұрын

That is what I am doing. UPS single out to the PDU

@IssaFram Жыл бұрын

Connecting this to a UPS will be interesting. It's basically all or none power. Won't be possible to prioritize certain devices.

@onac3079 Жыл бұрын

Was thinking of the same thing but this how every other PDU works too. I guess in an outage you could manually turn off power ports but you have to be available to do so.

@toddshreve Жыл бұрын

1.07a @ 120v is 128.4w. Conversely, 90.97w @ 1.07a requires 85.02v at the receptacle. So that feature appears broken. Why does the uplink section have a power figure? Is it a PoE port?

@sb1349 Жыл бұрын

Yeah that stuck out like a sore thumb to me as well. Either UBNT can't figure out simple power calculations or the device is busted already.

@_--_--_ Жыл бұрын

Looks more like capacitive load, so lots of reactive power. Switching PSUs are nutorious for having relatively high capacitive load at low load conditions compared to their real input power, unless they have decent power factor correction. Most Unifi/Ubiquiti equipment uses generic PSUs that dont have power factor correction, so thats most likely why you see these numbers, as in his test setup mostly Unifi Gear is connected to the PDU. TLDR: You cant just do V x A with AC, the phase has to be taken into account, therefore real power in AC systems is V x A x cosine of phaseangle.

@dave24-73 Жыл бұрын

Pity there isn’t a screen on the back as well. As most items that are rack mounter have power at the rear, so mounting it like you did makes the most sense, however without a screen on the back you have to go to a the web interface to do anything.

@stevenmishos Жыл бұрын

Future video suggestion: take a look at the new Internet Health feature on the UDMP dashboard. Mine shows high latency when I'm gaming on my 500/500 fiber connection which averages 6ms latency most other times. I'm wondering if Ubiquiti had inadvertently shone a light on the anemic routing capability of the UDMP with this feature.

@stevenmishos Жыл бұрын

In my case, the high latency spikes were driven by high CPU (around 70%), which is caused by a component of the Talk module (freeswitch -- even if Talk is not started), but is fixed in UniFi OS 1.12.24. My UDMP CPU is now running around

@greggordon2721 Жыл бұрын

Wattbox Is something I would take a look at. I wish the PDU be able to restart devices in a designated order.

@antok86 3 ай бұрын

link to those "thumb" screws in teh rack

@ryancrazy1 13 күн бұрын

did you get the video done with this? The software is ready. I wanna see it setup with that redundant setup

@tazerpie Жыл бұрын

Are you sure that Lan port arrangement isn't just a lan pass-through to provide lightning protection/isolation from faults affecting the wan service cable - this is pretty typical for your average more expensive and larger power extender units - most have both LAN and RJ11 telephony ports, and others even have Coax for sattellite or TV pass-through. the fact you can connect more than 1 UDM is interesting, but may just be a hard wire split where the wan IP would be set within the UDM.

@bsem68 6 ай бұрын

That is exactly what I was thinking. A hardware switched port that will switch the wan between the two outputs.. someone needs to disassemble and look at what is inside there.

@connclissmann6514 Жыл бұрын

Looks useful. Hard to see how this 2U device will cope with plug types in Europe, unless they switch to IEC C14 style socket. The price seems fair.

@mr.advocatusdiaboli1745 Жыл бұрын

Couldn't we use US IEC to c14 female type socket

@ulrar Жыл бұрын

Assuming it'll eat 240V 60Hz AC on the input, which isn't what they have in the US, then yes that should work. But who knows if it does

@mr.advocatusdiaboli1745 Жыл бұрын

@@ulrar it does, I read the technical specifications

@a.g8517 Жыл бұрын

1GB speed for PDU? whats the reason? 10mbps more than enought

@turbo2ltr Жыл бұрын

I understand maybe my home network rack isn't their target customer, but I think the outlets on the "front" was a mistake. I don't want outlets on the front and my rack doesn't have a "back" to mount to . I think all the power I/O should have been on one side, and the other side with the network and display.

@NSharp1 Жыл бұрын

I can see a problem with the Modem Power Cycle that scares me. That is the Modem is in a middle of a firmware update and this cut the power to it. I would love to see a way that you could set a timer for it. Like if you lose internet wait X number of mins before rebooting the Modem. This would make me feel a ton better about turn this on in my home network.

@StephenCornelius Жыл бұрын

The unit downloads the update package completely and then starts the update process, so a modem reboot would not interfere with the update process.

@frederickalfaro9493 Жыл бұрын

would be better if it had sfp+ wan in since multigig fiber is a thing that exists uncommon i know but still suport to the top end plz

@richardturkson5916 Жыл бұрын

Luxul has a descent PDU. Check out their PDU-8.

@lahiru97 Жыл бұрын

Isn’t it dangerous that it would power cycle the modem automatically? What if the modem is doing a firmware update and it power cycled it since the internet went down?

@IssaFram Жыл бұрын

It's an optional feature

@lahiru97 Жыл бұрын

@@IssaFram i know it optional, but I raise the question as a potential risk of using the feature?

@IssaFram Жыл бұрын

@@lahiru97 sure

@Yeroc357 7 ай бұрын

Would be cool if they made smaller PDUs that could be network managed. I run an arcade and would love to be able to manage power distribution to my games

@MattBSyd Жыл бұрын

Why didn't they just use IEC sockets rather than US mains sockets so that they can used around the world, which would also allow denser ports because most people use IEC->Mains adapters for wall plugs/warts/transformers/whatever-you-call-them-in-your-country-s, and they'd be more in-line with the rest of the products (APC etc) on the market

@railerswim Жыл бұрын

Wattbox is something a hometheater installer was trying to sell me on. But that was going to be $1700 for the ups and the managed pdu

@coldracerx Жыл бұрын

Watbox are worth it if you can afford it. I enjoy the easy of use and that fact I can connect to OVRC to manage it is pretty cool. I have used it to reboot the router at my parents house as I used one for their min rack.

@Triznever Жыл бұрын

The scheduling of ports is a big miss. The other thing I'm sad to see is the WAN ports are limited to gig, and not sfp for higher speeds. It would be nice if you were able to have two sets of AC inputs for different circuits.

@ChickenPermissionOG 7 ай бұрын

don't you need two isps to have redundant internet?

@Whappers1 Жыл бұрын

It would be great if they added a variant of the PDU-PRO that had UK plugs.

@ltr.arizona 2 ай бұрын

For Type A, "Bob's your uncle" setup, the DPU will not pull an IP via DHCP from my aggregation switch, and it stays on the default IP 192.168.1.20 even after factory reset. Anyone have this happen? The result is that I cannot adopt as the UDM Pro SE does not see the PDU to adopt. What am I missing?

@ltr.arizona Ай бұрын

It seems if I connect Port 21 on the PDU into an SFP port either 1G or 10G Ubiquiti SFP modules, it will not negotiate either in an aggregation switch or in the DMP SE. But fixed ports will in the DMP SE or the 16 port Lite connect no problem.

@Winia Жыл бұрын

The power cycling of the modem could be a bad think if your ISP pushes out a firmware update to the modem and it gets interrupted during that update.

@CalvinHenderson Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I have not used a modem in decades, have been on Fiber since 2005. But that is a very good use-case.

@everyhandletaken Жыл бұрын

good point..

@KannonRomano Жыл бұрын

I like it finally a cheaper managed PDU that isnt $700 for APC

@PhilBlancett Жыл бұрын

For your LED lights, just get a Hubitat Hub and a Zigbee / Zwave outlet. I think the PDU Pro is meant for hardware, not accessories. In a computer rack I'm not sure how useful a power scheduler would be for any hardware. Great video thank you :)

@MarcSchubert Жыл бұрын

Scheduling a weekly or monthly reboot of an ISP modem often avoids issues caused by high uptime and keeps things running smoothly. Would’ve been great for them to include the feature.

@GraveyardGrog Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to seeing this out of stock for the next few months.

@vanduhomelab Жыл бұрын

Data Centers use separate PDUs, A- PDU is for UPS, and B- PDU is for Grid. or A and B for UPS and C and D for Grid. 1 PDU that has 2 different power sources is pointless. If PDU fails, then all systems are down. If you want redundancy, it must be a separate unit.

@jamesdavis5672 Жыл бұрын

If you had a glass door on the front of you rack you could always put tent on it and then not have to worry about the lights at night.

@Parmigiano1 Жыл бұрын

Shame those USB-C ports are low power (only 10W per port and 20W total) so I can't charge my old MacBook that I use as a HASS server :(

@Lewis4568 Жыл бұрын

Me crying in uk because there’s probably not going to be a uk one ( or at least just have it be IEC connectors) guess the EU and the uk ext can just buy American plugs to iec 😂

@mr.advocatusdiaboli1745 Жыл бұрын

I was wondering this. Will it still work with the UK voltage? Using a UK IEC connector into the back of the power unit.

@Sybernetix Жыл бұрын

@@mr.advocatusdiaboli1745 EU is 250v but our plugs are massive.

@mr.advocatusdiaboli1745 Жыл бұрын

@@Sybernetix understood, UK is 240 V. Do you think it would still work using a US IEC Cable?

@DuB_in_Nz Жыл бұрын

@@nzrailphotos-yt same

@Lewis4568 Жыл бұрын

@@nzrailphotos-yt we do too but I’m an apprentice electrician on my 4th year so ide be able to convert it down ext 🤣but it’s sad 😞 they better release ones for all of us

@firemedicjm911 Жыл бұрын

I will come watch the video when it's not sold out, Which will be never :P

@davepusey Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be true HA as the PDU is still a single point-of-failure.

@inferKNOX2 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same, that one would need to have a pair, with dual-PSU (or RPS, if you prefer) devices plugging each into each, but then that $550 just for a pair of PDUs, before thinking about the UPS.

@MarcSchubert Жыл бұрын

Any of UI’s redundancy products seem to be very poorly thought out and this appears to be no different.

@TheCerealHobbyist Ай бұрын

Matrix with the backup power product and use A/B power.