What about a $20 android phone, when it detects a power loss (stops charging), send an sms.
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 12:03:48PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote: > On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 18:13 -0600, Josh Reynolds wrote: > > You could always just use UPS equipment that can send out alerts on power > > outages and low bat voltage. Or, use equipment that supports dying gasp. > > The equipment you have needs to be able to send the alert, which means > SMS or email-capable equipment needs to stay powered up long enough to > do that. > > There might be a product idea here, if no-one's done it already: > Something like a RaspBerry Pi, running off a lithium battery, with a > recharge circuit and something to detect a power outage. Add a 3G/4G > card to send an SMS alert, put it all in a box, plug it into power. Only > configuration needed is setting the SMS target(s)... If you made it > network addressable (on 3G/4G) it could send emails as well. > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > http://twitter.com/kauer389 > > GPG fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4 > Old fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 > >
