Implementing Home Electricity Uptime Monitoring on Status.href.cat
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Summary
The author describes adding home electricity uptime monitoring to their status.href.cat website after experiencing a power outage. When PG&E and their landlord notified them about an outage that affected building systems like elevators and e-key readers, they realized they had no way to track how long the power was actually out. This inspired them to implement a system that now reports and notifies them when their home power or internet goes down, allowing them to monitor uptime statistics.
Key quotes
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PG&E and my landlord emailed me about a power outage
This got me wondering, how long was the power out for?
With this, I decided to add uptime stats for my home electricity
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