Power at home/office indicator

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epictree

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Hey, what are you guys using at home/office to tell if power is on or off? I used to be able to see with my router's IP but now I've got a router backup and looking for a more mature solution.
 
I'm not sure if this qualifies as 'more mature' but you could install Tasker to an Android phone, let it monitor the power state and send an appropriate SMS etc.
 
Dynamic DNS then login to my router, if port 1 (AP) is not lit then I know power is off.

Quick and easy and costs nothing.
 
If I see my neighbour’s SSID vanish from the local area, I assume that power was lost to our street.

But for scripting on my Mikrotik I use Netwatch to watch an IP of a device that is on municipal power, then I can run appropriate scripts from there based on whether or not it’s pingable
 
epictree said:
Hey, what are you guys using at home/office to tell if power is on or off? I used to be able to see with my router's IP but now I've got a router backup and looking for a more mature solution.
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I get a message from the NAS that tells me it has entered UPS mode and a followup when power is restored.
 
some alarm systems will sms you when power goes off and when it returns again .
 
get a push notification from my alarm system when supply fails and when it returns
 
riscbroker said:
I'm not sure if this qualifies as 'more mature' but you could install Tasker to an Android phone, let it monitor the power state and send an appropriate SMS etc.
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I used to do this with an old Android phone, permanently plugged in, and it would send me an SMS if the charger of the phone connected/disconnected.

But clunky but it worked.
 
riscbroker said:
I'm not sure if this qualifies as 'more mature' but you could install Tasker to an Android phone, let it monitor the power state and send an appropriate SMS etc.
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I tried this so far but the spare phone gets a bit hot.
 
PhireSide said:
If I see my neighbour’s SSID vanish from the local area, I assume that power was lost to our street.

But for scripting on my Mikrotik I use Netwatch to watch an IP of a device that is on municipal power, then I can run appropriate scripts from there based on whether or not it’s pingable
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My HAP lite is on router backup power and has Netwatch. Would you care to post your on and off scripts? Also, what device are you monitoring. I'm assuming something with a fixed IP.
 
epictree said:
My HAP lite is on router backup power and has Netwatch. Would you care to post your on and off scripts? Also, what device are you monitoring. I'm assuming something with a fixed IP.
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Sigh, I typed out a long reply then the forum timed out and I lost my draft. Version 2:

I have a script that I used to monitor my Google Home Speaker that is connected to municipal power, and disables and enables a port that goes to my Rain router accordingly, which is my backup connection. When we have load shedding, it tanks the Rain connection, so I setup a Netwatch entry to disable the Rain ethernet port when there is load shedding, and reenable it 5 minutes after power restores. The commented entries I used when it used to fallback to 4G instead of 5G, so I used it to adjust my queues accordingly.

DOWN script:

/log error "*** Eskom is DOWN ***"
/interface disable ether4
#/queue simple set [find where comment="rain"] max-limit="30M/50M"

UP script:

/log error "*** Eskom is UP ***"
:delay 5m;
/interface enable ether4
#/queue simple set [find where comment="rain"] max-limit="30M/250M"
 
Tomtomtom said:
I have a couple of these Qualitel / BNETA branded ones. Also a CBI Astute - all part of the Tuya ecosystem. But just about any WiFi or GSM device should work providing it's always on mains.

You might just want to distinguish connection drops from true power outages by delaying notification for a few mins.
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I have similar vizia ones. Problem is they are on the circuit that is fed by inverter. So doesn't really help.

I went as far as installing a smart plug for the oven which then in theory could be the trigger. Problem was that smartlife never triggered anything. It just went offline
 
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