I've got a WeMo Insight:
http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C029/ which is cool cause it's got an app that shows wattage & even has an API I can use in conjunction with others to calculate all kinds of ratios/stats. Only problem is it only shows wattage over local wifi, but that's another problem all together.
What I'm really looking to do is, say that my rig locks up for whatever reason, maybe I have a slightly unstable OC etc. I get a notification that the worker is down & then I simply turn off the WeMo switch, turn it back on & then use WOL(ethtools) to tell it to boot back up. Seems simple enough.. Actually it would be even simpler if my motherboard(ASRock H110 Pro BTC+) supported Power Recovery where it'd just power back up after turning the switch back on but I don't think it does(please correct me if possible) :/
Anyway. I'd really like to get your thoughts/ideas on this. What do you do & how would you suggest setting this up where I could reboot my rigs from 3 states away in the event that SSH is unresponsive? I could figure something out but I'm assuming those with more experience than I may have a even better solution.
Thanks!
I use my insights as you propose.
My method is:
ethmonitoring.com sends alerts to rigs misbehaving (but you could use another app or pool alerts)
try to access via vnc (because i'm using windows, ssh/teamviewer are alternatives)
if it's not responding cycle power with the wemo app
bios is set to always power on
miner app runs on startup
Re: BIOS power up state:
It's for a different model Asrock but I'd be surprised if they removed it from a mining mobo?!:
in your asrock bios menu, go to Advanced => Chipset configuration. there you find it. "Restore on AC/Power Loss" change that to "power on" or
whatever it says regarding turning back on or booting etc. this reboots automatically on powerfailure.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dogemining/comments/209gnd/asrock_h81_pro_btchow_do_i_configure_it_to_start/Re: only able to view energy use locally:
Not sure what's up with your setup? I can view energy use from anywhere with the wemo app. If you setup a VPN server (some routers can run one or you could use a raspberry pi / an always on machine which isn't mining) then you can connect to that and the wemo app will think it's local.
Also if you're into scripting and get VPN setup then you might find this interesting, you could remove the need for the belkin app entirely
https://ouimeaux.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html