Its irritating,comed requires account number to even make a report. We are working on that runtime, but with APC it's just too much physical space
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:17 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > . 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]> 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]> >> 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 >>> >> -- >> 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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