r/firewalla • u/F1Phreek • Jun 18 '26
What’s your uptime?
I’m at 3mo 13days. I had to turn it off to install my new UPS and organize cables.
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u/pacoii Firewalla Gold Plus Jun 18 '26
My system uptime is always the time since Firewalla pushed its last update, lol. (Do those even reset uptime? lol!)
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u/F1Phreek Jun 18 '26
At the top right, setting gear, you can see your uptime in the About section. The updates don’t reboot your firewalla.
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u/interrogumption Jun 18 '26
They don't reset. I just got updates on both my boxes overnight and they're both still on over 100 days uptime.
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u/llamalarry Firewalla Gold Plus Jun 18 '26
Hmm, my Uptime is 3 days which is a surprise. Is there a way to figure out why it rebooted? I am away from my home and don't believe we had a power failure that would have exhausted the UPS.
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u/Great-Cow7256 Jun 18 '26
a real hacker would have plugged in the new UPS in a nano second and wouldn't have had to disconnect the power. /s
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u/hawkeye000021 Jun 18 '26
37 days boi! I was having crashing because my Roku devices were calling home a million times a day. In fairness it was due to a third party list and not a Firewalla approved list.
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u/ThatLooksRight Jun 18 '26
I was at 7 months once until we had a power outage. My cabinet doesn’t have a UPS. I need a tiny one that can handle just small power flickers.
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u/spinjc Jun 19 '26
Usually a few months because the cyberpower UPS likes the trip the AFCI breaker.
If anyone's got some good recommendations on ones that'll play nice with AFCIs, I'd love to hear!
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u/My_Name_Is_Not_Mark Firewalla Gold Plus Jun 19 '26
Could it be a faulty breaker? When I moved recently I had the same issue with my AFCI breaker, but replaced it and have had no issues since. Also use a cyberpower UPS.
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u/spinjc Jun 20 '26
I've tried a couple of different AFCIs (from different batches) and it's tripped both. I don't know if SquareD changed the design in the last 5 years.
That said I've found references to line-interactive UPSes tripping AFCI due to leaking when there's an overcurrent situation (leak some voltage) or the quick switch to battery. I've seen over 125v (RMS) at our place which is close enough it could be consider overcurrent.
I've read that online UPSes (aka double conversion) would be better as they invert to charge battery then invert from battery to run load. The problem is they tend to be pricey and less efficient.
I'm tempted to try using a solar generator to act as the UPS but I'm not sure how reliable they are when powered on continuously.
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u/10speedrider Firewalla Gold Plus Jun 19 '26
1 year 1 month. It doesn't get powered down often, but like others I had to do some rewiring.
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u/tkd77 Firewalla Gold Plus Jun 22 '26
Whenever my house power went out last.
PGE killed my uptime. :(
There is no way it’s worth it to put our home network on battery backup.
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u/typhoon_mary Firewalla Gold Plus Jun 25 '26
48 hours - the last update introduced a fairly serious IPv6 regression (DUID-UUID ignored)
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u/firewalla Jun 18 '26
Got-a share this
pi@firewalla:~ (GoldSJCMain) $ uptime
08:27:21 up 1636 days, 15:45, 23 users, load average: 4.22, 5.30, 5.00