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Remotely powering on server with smart plug - doesn't work :-( (lemmit.online)

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/Roaders on 2023-09-24 09:20:52.

Hi All

I have a plan to have a backup unraid box in my garage. I want to remotly power it on with a smart plug (my MB doesn't have WOL and in my experience that never works!).

I have set the state on power restore to Always in the BIOS. This only seems to work if power was lost when the server was on. In otherwords if I power off the server when it's running then it will re-boot when power is restored. If I shutdown the server then power off the smart plug it doesn't come back on again.

Is this expected behavior? Seems odd and is very frustrating...

My motherboard is one of these:

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