how to leave home
I'm sure this has been asked before but what do you do to the sticks and bricks when leaving for the winter? This is our first year of snow birding. We leave about 1/3. Going to Quartzite and Yuma and...
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mcewena wrote:almcc wrote:
With the system we have I can determine if I have a power failure back home. First indication is I (and my house checker) get an email that says the thermostat is missing. When I get this message I then look at the minute by minute raw data provided by the service and if the furnace is calling for heat but the place isn't warming up then there is a power failure, it helps that I have a battery back UPS that gives an hour of internet connectivity before the UPS dies.
In terms of a power failure, the possibility of damage to your home depends on the weather conditions (outside temp) at your location. Last year we had a 30 hour power outage (transformer blew on a pole) with the outside temps below freezing, the inside temp never got down close to freezing.
Thanks. I was sort of assuming if there was a power failure then my internet provider would also be impacted even if I had a UPS for my modem. Best I've come up with is an app that takes a picture of the thermostat every hour and stores it to dropbox. The absence of a picture means no power but I have to assume continued absence means continued no power as opposed to reboot problem.
Probably worrying over nothing as we lost power for 2 weeks back in the '98 ice storm and there were no issues. (of course my basement didn't have a sump hole then).
Your internet connectivity with a power failure may depend on how you are connected. I can't comment on cable but I have a DSL connection via a phone line (they keep going during a failure) and my provider is a distance away so unless there is a very widespread failure I still have internet for as long as my UPS keeps going.
