Apps to help with Eskom load shedding

[Jan]

Shedding alerts: Apps to keep you in light about the dark

The uptake of various new apps is directly proportional to increased load-shedding and news coverage, but developers are yet to make any money.

 

[koeksGHT]

Difficult to get accurate schedules

 

[CeeBee]

Difficult to get accurate schedules

thats the thing.... eskom's schedules are about as reliable as eskom itself, .... at least speaking for our area.
for us, best we can do is expect the load shedding to start somewhere from 8PM to 11PM, anywhere inbetween.
actually starting to get frustrating when we get all ready, prepared for it, and it doesnt happen.... or we reckon we've still got a few minutes, and suddenly ....
i'll rather stay without another thing that's not accurate

 

[squirrel]

Not a single link to the Play Store?

 

[JerryMungo]

iOS app seems to simply link to the schedules in the browser (scanned pdf's). Not particularly helpful for my area (East London).

 

[system32]

Why are CityPower load shedding schedules 4.5h long and all other places (Eskom, Durban, Cape Town, Pretoria, etc) only 2.5h long?

 

[system32]

iOS app seems to simply link to the schedules in the browser (scanned pdf's). Not particularly helpful for my area (East London).

http://loadshedding.news24.com/
seems pretty good

better than
http://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/

 

[StellenboschStudent]

Try EskomSePush, best free app out there

 

[MickeyD]

No app will be accurate if the relevant metro decides to deviate from their schedules.

Example:

Eskom announces stage 1 from 4-5pm and stage 2 from 5-10pm.

Our metro's schedules has each slot starting on an even hour, eg. 2,4,6,8, etc.

To avoid a mess, our metro goes straight to stage 2 from 4pm.

Now any and all Apps are ISM as they use the metro's published schedules...

 

[koeksGHT]

No app will be accurate if the relevant metro decides to deviate from their schedules.

Example:

Eskom announces stage 1 from 4-5pm and stage 2 from 5-10pm.

Our metro's schedules has each slot starting on an even hour, eg. 2,4,6,8, etc.

To avoid a mess, our metro goes straight to stage 2 from 4pm.

Now any and all Apps are ISM as they use the metro's published schedules...

We gave up before even starting and added crowdsourced outages.

 

[pedruid]

Hi, I have this on my iPad and find it to be very good. Is there a way to get this on a Nokia windows device?

 

[Necuno]

Difficult to get accurate schedules

Accuracy is DA thing :erm:

 

[dunkyd]

My Gridwatch seems very accurate so far ?

 

[CamiKaze]

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