What do you guys use to alert you of a power outage

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I usually just look what time my clock stopped and compare it to my phone lol. There has to be a “real” way right?

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I don't have anything that tells me of a power outage but I have set up a rule to send me a notification when my hub has started up.
This way I know that if it wasn't me who updated/rebooted my hub, something else has done it.
Power restoration or its done it itself for some reason.

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Which rule is that? Thank you

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Here is the rule I've defined.
I have put a condition in for the time as I reboot the hub at 02:30 in the morning and I don't want to send a notification for that.

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Thank you

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When my several UPS's start screaming... I know there's a power outage :slight_smile:

That's it. nothing complicated. If I'm not home, well I just don't know about it.

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Same here, my ups yell. I’d bet there’s a small smart plug with a little built in battery that’ll report when power was lost and turned back on

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I could connect the ups to my server and send a email, text, push, whatever. I just haven't bothered. If the power is out long enough for the batteries to die then I have far more things to worry about.

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I have my UPS connected to an RPi running NUT. Then connect to Node-RED (and Hubitat) for alerting/shutdown control.

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Could I use something like this to alert me if my homebridge server on my pi goes down?

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I connected a USP Power Loss Sensor to the two terminals in an Ecolink Z-Wave Plus Door/Window contact sensor then setup a rule to tell me when the state changes. Of course my network equipment and Hubitat hub are on UPS.

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Or there's this for a fraction of the price.

Wow, I should go into business selling a $1 wall wart and a $1 spdt relay for $42 and call it a UPS power loss detector. LOL.

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My Freenas server connected to the UPS which everything else including HE is connected to sends me an email notification that UPS is on battery.

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I’m still using this...

But now it’s on HE not smartthings

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Cool stuff

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Check out his thread. There are a few options in there that use the contact sensor as the reporting device. The last post is my current setup which has worked reliably and instantly for me since I set this up.

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Hi @Cobra,

Sorry to bring up an old thread, what you have created here is a great little thing and was wondering if you wrote any guides on how you created this and got it running with smart things\HE?

I am interested in doing similar as I have regular power cuts, I have a UPS running and would be good to be notified when the power goes out.

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For the hardware, you can make something like I posted in the SmartThings forum or you can use a Ring Extender:

I use this with an app I created “Power Off Shutdown” which you can find on my website:
Https://cobra-apps.co.uk

Or you can use rule machine

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I have signed up to your site, I am happy to make what you made as it looks a lot cheaper to make that than buy the ring extender, I also have a spare Zwave water leak sensor that I could probably use with it to help build it.

I was just wondering if you had a parts list and wiring diagram on the item you made on the smart things forum, I am quite handy with a soldering iron and probably just need to order the 5v relay, circuit board & charger.

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I have a Ring Repeater that sends an alert to my hub if it senses a power outage. It works great!

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