Eskom gives South Africa first load-shedding break in weeks from midnight to 05:00

[Solitude]

Yup Block 11 is bad hey, I used to stay on the side by Curro and that was as bad as Honeydew, moved across the road closer to Clearwater and man it's been far far better.

Ah cool, it sounds like you are just down the road from me.

 

[Lupus]

Ah cool, it sounds like you are just down the road from me.

Yup sounds like it , Enzo Matrix is also around here somewhere.

 

[AlphaJohn]

So once again, even when not on the schedule, I get shed as per block 15

Hey could be worse, could have my luck where some nana tried to fix a broken transformer by transferring its load to a working one.

But forgot to check how much he can shift and in the process blew the second one as well. ie: now I have a whole weekend++ off no power regardless of schedule.

 

[N@t3]

really enjoyed boning in the dark.

 

[AlphaJohn]

really enjoyed boning in the dark.

F that, I like to see what I eat,
Also, I paid good money for a generator & Inverter so I don't need to

 

[wingnut771]

F that, I like to see what I eat,
Also, I paid good money for a generator & Inverter so I don't need to

 

[Lupus]

Hey could be worse, could have my luck where some nana tried to fix a broken transformer by transferring its load to a working one.

But forgot to check how much he can shift and in the process blew the second one as well. ie: now I have a whole weekend++ off no power regardless of schedule.

So power is still out that sucks, oh we've had that. In 2019 one night we experienced flickering electricity cause someone was cutting the power on the line, we all log tickets with CP, they shift the load to the second link, sweet gives the guys to cut the line with less issues.
Next night we have flickering lights again, everyone logs tickets with CP, they switch load to the first link... Which now of course doesn't exist, bam power out, they than give the perfect time for the second one to be stolen. Off for 25 hours.

 

[AstroTurf]

Anyway, I am very sure this was purely for the sake of statistics.

 

[Jo-deb]

I need power to sleep due to a medical problem. My inverter batteries is F$$$ . So last night with no loadshedding was a blessing.

 

[fragtion]

Is there nowhere to obtain some kind of API feed or CSV/JSON export of the rolling stages timetable? it's one thing pulling a loadshedding schedule from eskom, city power etc, but now there's an extra layer of complexity with the regular dynamic stage-switching that's going on. Publishing these tables as a JPEG image or Microsoft Word table exported to HTML with variances each time, doesn't really help those of us who are trying to automate our lives around this mess (eg with home assistant). If anyone's managed to figure something out for this pls share

 

[wernerhp]

@fragtion
Looks like CityPower posts the Eskom image in HTML
Trying to build up a Python library schedules in one place for use with Home Assistant. Works fine for Eskom Direct so far, but need some help with other metros.

 

[fragtion]

@fragtion
Looks like CityPower posts the Eskom image in HTML
Trying to build up a Python library schedules in one place for use with Home Assistant. Works fine for Eskom Direct so far, but need some help with other metros.

Really nice library.. you should try get that onto GitHub where it's more visible IMO. And obviously we want to get more municipalities into there ASAP, like City Power..

I see they just updated the schedule again. Stage 2 from 16:00-24:00 on Sat & Sun. EskomSePush had a notification sent out within 10 minutes, and by the time I saw that notification, I refreshed City Power's schedule and it had also been updated. So perhaps City Power schedule is going to be the best source to scrape for the Stages schedule (assuming this is even permitted) until something better comes along. Unlikely to be very reliable or consistent, but better than nothing I suppose