How to detect a power outage (2024)

[Andreas_Roedl]

I hope that in a few years we’ll have mini UPS with Matter/Thread support or at least Zigbee. An old thread from 2018:

New idea maybe? Zigbee/Z-Wave enabled Battery UPS?

I have a family cabin and we are not there very often in the winter. Recently the internet stopped working, but the Spectrum rep said that the modem is pinging just fine. I would love to figure out how to get notified if the power is out while simultaneously providing continuous power (albeit for a short period of time) for all of the network to ensure I could see my SmartThings status for a while and do something about it. Does anyone know if there is a Zigbee or Z-Wave enabled UPS? Of course, with a DTH of some sort that provides a “on/off” type function for when it is running on its own battery power. It would be great to get notified (via WebCore or something) if the power is out and the UPS is providing the power. At least I would be able to see it because the network would still be…