Comments on: Powering up your ReadyNAS NV+ remotely

By: Boby

Boby — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:33:55 +0000

This is great but I prefer to use a $5 mini servo/solenoid to press the on-off button mechanically. That way I would keep my unit untouched and would not void the warranty.

By: martin

martin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:16:14 +0000

You’re probably right. Next time I do something like this, I’ll check the specs for the power supply first and if it has one of those “turn me on” lines, I’ll go for that. Actually, I should’ve beeped out the line further. Wouldn’t surprise me if that on-switch actually connects to the green line, but I’m just guessing.

By: Frans W

Frans W — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:31:10 +0000

Just thinking out loud; would it be possible to do the connections via the 20 pin molex power connector instead?
Usually you can get an ATX power supply to turn on by connecting the green wire (pin 14) to any of the blacks (e.g. pin 15 right next to it).
Looks a lot less intrusive to me, and based on your picture the green wire is there, so with the above listed disclaimer (fire, divorce, financial ruin and dog bites), that may be worth a try?

By: martin

martin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:21:16 +0000

I seem to remember less than 1 W, but I can’t swear to it.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:48:28 +0000

How much power does the web relay use?

By: martin

martin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:45:04 +0000

That’s indeed a good tip, Dan. The only problem may be where to get the power. You could take it from the power supply to the web relay which, if you selected the right model, is 5V. But if you power your webrelay from a PoE source, you don’t have that. You could also steal power from inside the ReadyNAS. Must be a lot of places you can take 5V in there. But on the whole, I admit it would have been better to use an internal relay or opto coupler. It wouldn’t add much to the cost or the effort and reduce the risk to the equipment considerably.

By: Dan Voller

Dan Voller — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:17:15 +0000

I’d recommend using an internal sub-miniature relay. Connect it’s NO contacts in parallel to the Power-On switch. The relays’ power (5V) comes from outside. So this has two advantages: You can use thousands of feets of controlling cable, because the acting circuit remains inside. The controlling circuit comes from outside and has *no* connections to whatever inside’s circuits!!!
Alternatively you can use an opto-coupler, with no mechanical parts!
Dan

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:34:58 +0000

I had the problem of wanting to run a daily sync between one ReadyNas NV+ over the street in the neighbours house and the one in the office building.
I programmed the external NAS to power up at 7 and power down at 7:30 every weekday.
Then I added an rsync job to sync the two NAS.

I found, that as along as rsync is running, the external ReadyNAS will not power down, until the job is finished.
So if there’s a long backup job, it will take as long as it takes. Otherwise, the external ReadyNAS will power down after 30 minutes.

By: tshack

tshack — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:51:23 +0000

Excellent Article, Martin!

Great to have you as a member of the ReadyNAS community. Keep up the good work!

@ArgusX: http://tinyurl.com/ReadyNAS-WOL

By: ArgusX

ArgusX — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:29:52 +0000

Re: Awake,

You don’t have to go through all that to power on a PC remotely. Investigate the ‘Wake-on-LAN’ feature.