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Hotspot that can run with battery removed
Hi - looking for advice on running a hotspot at a second home that frequently looses AC power. Hotspot gets signal from an AT&T cell tower. Want to connect a wifi thermostat to control from home. If...
P.S. My reply above assumed that your power brick is a type of UPS with an inverter, into which you could plug an upgraded AC mains charger to power the M1. If your power brick provides only a DC output with USB-compatible connection, I guess this should still work provided that the amperage of the output is at least 2.4A. However, please don't rely on my guess - you would need to do your own experiments at your own risk.
P.S. My reply above assumed that your power brick is a type of UPS with an inverter, into which you could plug an upgraded AC mains charger to power the M1. If your power brick provides only a DC output with USB-compatible connection, I guess this should still work provided that the amperage of the output is at least 2.4A. However, please don't rely on my guess - you would need to do your own experiments at your own risk.
UK - based:
Thanks for your advice, it has pointed me in right direction to evaluation. One of my neighbors has a small UPS unit I can probably use to test this out and see how long it would power the Nighthawk with battery removed. I'm also looking into the power bricks to see if there is one that would supply the 2.4A needed to runw/out battery.
Do you (or anyone) know if the Nighthawk will reboot and connect to internet when running w/out battery w/2.4A wall charger without having to manually push the "on" button? Seems I saw something suggesting this, but can't find where I saw it now. If that is the case I could just skip all the battery/UPS backup and reconnect when the AC came back on.
You're welcome Dryforkcc. And thanks for the Kudo :smileywink:.
Regarding reboots, the M1 will reconnect to the internet without having to press the power button, so WiFi connections should be re-established. However, until recent firmware releases, which hopefully have reached all countries/carriers, it was necessary to press the power button to turn on the Ethernet port after a reboot (it was off by default after a reboot). As I mentioned above, Netgear moderators state that in the recent firmware releases the Ethernet port turns on after a reboot and stays on if there is a terminated connection with activity. Mine seems to be working in this fashion.
UK Based- excellent, this info really helps. I think I'll get one since it seems to be best on market these days. I can try it out both ways, w/battery and rely on it's claimed 24 hr battery that would help me monitor it in conjunction with info I can get on outages either through local power co. or my neighbor up there, or w/out battery and if power goes out just watch it till it reconnects. If run w/out battery a relatively inexpensive UPS would give some extra "on time". I don't have anything in that location I would be plugging into the ethernet port so I could let that go to standby.