My electric company installed a smart meter on my house a few years ago. I get an email when the power is out and another when it comes back on. Not terribly useful when I'm home all the time, but I've been wishing I could get the same email when my parents' power goes out, too. We live in the same city, but different areas.
Maybe a battery-powered Pi that you can also plug in to mains and it will send the email when it switches to battery. Probably also want an LTE modem in case the internet goes out at the same time. Andy On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 13:48 Josh Luthman <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have your own meter you might get a notification. Not sure I'd > depend on it. > > We have meters with both providers that have our area in multiple > locations. Sometimes we get a heads up, most of the time we don't > (referring to planned events, outages I get a call many hours after it gets > fixed). > > Josh Luthman > 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:23 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> We dont run our own meters, power is built in to leases so we dont have >> account numbers with the power utilities. Is there a place we can register >> for alerts on regional outages? >> an example is right now one of our sites that has a bad UPS thats >> replacement is on order. It went down a bit ago and looking on the >> providers outage map, its a planned outage for tree trimming. We could have >> planned around that. >> >> I have notifications for my home account with ComEd and its nice, I know >> when my power goes out and get the ETA notices as they update them >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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