On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, nut.user.u830 at neverbox.com wrote:
> I have an older box set up this way for continuous integration, and
it needs to see more than a few seconds of power loss for the "always turn
> on" BIOS setting to work. I forget how many different intervals
I tried, but 30 seconds of off time is reliable for that particular box.
>
> Thanks. This matches my limited experience from yesterday with 2 computers
including the one that's actually attached to the UPS I'm trying to get
to
> work.?
>
> If power is cut and restored when the computer is already off (and with the
always-on BIOS setting), then: short off time, it doesn't notice and it
> remains off; long off time, it does come back on. I did one minute for
"long" but didn't do binary partitioning of the interval to assess
the exact
> threshold.
The default values in ups.conf are currently offdelay = 20 and ondelay = 30.
In view of your findings, shouldn't the default ondelay be offdelay+30 or
even
higher?
Roger
