[quote=“BOFH, post:11, topic:180808”]The problem is that when the power goes out, so most likely does your vera and router. Ergo, no power, no notification.
At one time, someone made a plugin for UI4 that allowed Vera to communicate with a UPS. Which would be just what you need.
Vera and internet router on UPS. If power fails, UPS signals Vera who sends you a notification. hopefully before the UPS dies
If power returns and UPS is till powering Vera she could send a ‘power back’ notification. Not sure how you coudl do that if the outage is longer than your UPS battery lasts.
I’m unsure where that plugin went and if it’s even compatible with UI5 or even UI6.
I tought about this some more and came up with the below scenario:
If you have a DD-WRT router at your vacation, you can use it, the geo-fencing script for those and an IP device (eg a camera)
Have Vera, your internet router and the DD-WRT router on UPS but have the IP camera directly connected to the mains. Using the geofencing script, if the camera disconnects from the routee, you can assume power failed. The script will trigger a (multi)switch plugin on Vera which can then send you a notification. An added benefit would be that you can use the camera to look at your vacation home.
I use this solution with my cell so Vera knows when I come home and leave. It also pings my main server and my ISP’s DNS server.
I’m gonna add one of my camera’s so I can use it as a ‘power outage’ detector as described above.
Required hardware:
1 UPS
1 DD-WRT (atheros) compatible router (These can be had pretty cheaply recertified)
1 IP Camera (Vera compatible)[/quote]
I think your on the wrong track. I don’t need the vera that’s down to report to me. I have more then one vera in different locations. Would be easier to use the vera that has power and internet to check in with the other and if no response report to me.
Internet down the communication to UPS wouldn’t help me.
I have posted many times in the DDWRT post and currently use that on multiple routers in both houses for home away.
What I really need is a way to use my DDWRT from one house to ping the vera from the other house. Problem like above is a can’t ping anything but the router as you can’t ping ports. Anyone know away (script) to use the MIOS servers to try and see if the vera is online.