Power Outage Notification Service

chunkysoup56 · Apr 19, 2019

Does anybody use a third-party service to monitor the status of their home internet? I'm comfortable with making the assumption that if my home network is down that my power is more than likely out as well (or I need to at least investigate the status)

I know that there has to be a cheap (or free) tech/app solution that can "ping" my home network every so often then notify me when it's not successful???

I know that there are fancier (more expensive) ways to do this with Apex, etc., but this is just not in my budget @ the moment. I'm currently running a basic UPS battery back-up on a 10g NANO that will give me several hours of power supply, but doesn't have the capability to provide any notifications.

THANKS in advance!

Crabs McJones · Apr 19, 2019

A guy I know built one of these, not sure how well it works as I never followed up, but its an inexpensive DIY power outage alert
https://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Simple-Power-Outage-Monitor/

jda · Apr 19, 2019

Are you technical and have any remote servers? If so, then you can try and ssh into your home network... failure and you get a text. This is free and easy with about 10 lines of ksh or bash, but not everybody has access.

I don't have any other solutions, so sorry and bump for others...

KadeSirin · Apr 19, 2019

jda said:
Are you technical and have any remote servers? If so, then you can try and ssh into your home network... failure and you get a text. This is free and easy with about 10 lines of ksh or bash, but not everybody has access.

I don't have any other solutions, so sorry and bump for others...

I use this to check, but I have fiber and a static IP. If you have a dynamic IP, you should get a dynamic dns and point uptimerobot at it as well.

I also have a VPN from the office going home, so if either end drops, I get an email.