How to: Planning for Outages

[Andreas_Roedl]

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Sengled smart bulbs and one other newer zigbee light went on when power was restored (annoying but could turn off 5 minutes after power went on). I don’t think they can be configured.

The trick is to detect a power outage and when the power is restored:

How to detect a power outage (2024)

Many of us have set up one or more notifications for when, for example, movement is detected in our absence, the refrigerator is too warm, a water leak is detected, or smoke is present. However, it is surprisingly difficult to detect when the power goes out. There still doesn’t seem to be an integrated feature to detect devices that go offline. I have thought for a long time about how this problem could be solved. There must be a device that generates an event when the power goes out. Of course, this would have to be battery-operated and directly connected to the hub. At some point, I discovered the Woox Siren R7051, which meets these requirements. [Screenshot_20240826_190643_Samsung Internet] It has the following features: Detection of the power source Battery operated Zigbee (not …

When I unplug my “power outage detector” (device that detects the power source) and plug it back in, all of my lights turn off after 15 minutes.