My philosophy now is that I should have 12+ hours of battery power, and
enough smarts on the network to know that the AC power is off or on.
Then when I start to get alerts I have lots of time to figure out what's
going on and plenty of time to deal with it.
I wish I had a more direct answer to the original question, but I don't
think there is one. As a tenant at a site, I do like to make note of
the meter number so I can call the elec co and ask if there's a known
outage, and/or report an outage if I know about it.
On 3/11/2021 9:03 PM, Colin Stanners wrote:
For quick and easy monitoring of lower-priority sites (e.g. relatives'
homes) I recommend putting a static IP on their CPE and allowing
pings, and making a free account on a site such as
https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/ <https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/> .
If either the internet or power goes out, you get an email within 5
minutes. You can also setup additional monitoring to differentiate
those causes by putting the CPE on a UPS and putting a simple NATed
web server behind it (not on UPS).
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 7:42 PM Andrew Haninger <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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
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