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 <ahan...@gmail.com> 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 <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > 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 <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> >> 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 >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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