Low-power mode - disabling radio on schedule

Wicky · November 2017

As with the scheduling of the SSID availability I would like to see a kind of low-power mode where particular AP's are actively scheduled for a low-power mode where radio is disabled and the device enters a low-power state instead of using POE scheduling on a switch to permanently shutdown the AP and no triggering alarms. Of when no POE scheduling is available.

Nebula_Bayardo · November 2017

Hi @Wicky,
Currently, the AP's power consumption is based on the traffic that AP handles, which affects the CPU load.
If all the SSIDs are disabled with the SSID availability feature or no clients are connected, the load of the AP will decrease as will the power. Once the AP is idle (no traffic), the power consumption is around 30% of the maximum power (3/9 watts for NAP102 as example).

If you have a NSW, you can check the PoE column on Switch > Configure > Switch ports, and compare the consumption while the AP is in idle state and when the AP has heavy loading.

The PoE power draw per NAP model can be found in the datasheets HERE.

Is the current behavior good enough for your request?

flottmedia · February 2019

What's the best practice currently for turning off WiFi (completely = not only hiding SSID) during night for certain APs? As far as we can see, this only seems to be possible by creating a PoE schdule on the switches which leads to unwanted alert notifications / emails on the respective APs whenever they go down? Wouldn't it be better to really turn off the wireless interfaces of the APs in alle SSIDs are scheduled to be off?

Nebula_Bayardo · February 2019

Hi @flottmedia
At the current stage, the wireless interface cannot be turned off, but we already have it on the roadmap for the end of this year.
And we also plan to enhance the alert notification when using PoE schedule, this is targeted to the middle of the year.

Cheers!
Bayardo

JeffRyer · December 2021

Is this feature available? I can't find it. I just installed a WAX650S into Nebula and I need to power it off nightly, as requested above. Per the last comment from @Nebula_Bayardo this would have been available over a year ago, but I'm having a hard time finding the feature.

Zyxel_Silvia · December 2021

Hi @JeffRyer,

we have SSID schedule, please refer this post:
https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/9930/nebula-how-to-configure-ssid-schedule#latest
we also have PoE schedule, the configuration page is at Switch > Configure > PoE Schedules.
hope the above function meet your need.
Thank you for raising questions.

Silvia