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New local and/or urban last mile electrical distribution infra is typically buried, but to your point, lots of legacy above ground infra at risk until someone finds the funds to bury/harden it. https://www.fema.gov/case-study/overhead-underground-it-pays... https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/21/burying-power-lines-for-wild... https://research.ufl.edu/should-power-lines-go-underground.h... https://web.archive.org/web/202201…
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I've seen the John Oliver videos and all, so I know this comes as a surprise to no-one but... the US needs to get its act together and build some actual infrastructure. I've heard lots of encouraging stories on the Volts podcast about it, too. Not enough, not fast enough, from what I understand. I'm 38 and I've had power go out in my house for lots of reasons, but all of them came down to me blowing a fuse somehow. I…
Same here (Western Europe). I can't recall the last time we had a power outage that was not caused inside the house. All power cables except for long-distance transport are underground though, which probably helps a lot and might account for the difference to a large extend. (Our microwave oven did trip our residual-current circuit breaker a few weeks ago, never encountered that before, only 'fuse switch'-flips. Sadl…
I've seen the John Oliver videos and all, so I know this comes as a surprise to no-one but... the US needs to get its act together and build some actual infrastructure. I've heard lots of encouraging stories on the Volts podcast about it, too. Not enough, not fast enough, from what I understand. I'm 38 and I've had power go out in my house for lots of reasons, but all of them came down to me blowing a fuse somehow. I…
I've seen the John Oliver videos and all, so I know this comes as a surprise to no-one but... the US needs to get its act together and build some actual infrastructure. I've heard lots of encouraging stories on the Volts podcast about it, too. Not enough, not fast enough, from what I understand. I'm 38 and I've had power go out in my house for lots of reasons, but all of them came down to me blowing a fuse somehow. I…
Depends on the region. I live in one of the bad areas, with lots of trees. The power goes out every couple months for a couple hours. But I was very surprised to learn that until 2021, most Texans had never had a power interruption in decades (which I suppose added to their panic). Not all that useful to say "the US" here. California has it's wildfires and earthquakes. The west has extreme temperature swings. Southea…
And now in 2025 you will find the highest density of generac installs in Texas. I'm in a neighborhood where at least 80% of the homes have a standby unit. The substation is less than a mile away but the lines have to go through Narnia to reach us. Outages are half a day at a minimum.
I've seen the John Oliver videos and all, so I know this comes as a surprise to no-one but... the US needs to get its act together and build some actual infrastructure. I've heard lots of encouraging stories on the Volts podcast about it, too. Not enough, not fast enough, from what I understand. I'm 38 and I've had power go out in my house for lots of reasons, but all of them came down to me blowing a fuse somehow. I…
Depends on the region. I live in one of the bad areas, with lots of trees. The power goes out every couple months for a couple hours. But I was very surprised to learn that until 2021, most Texans had never had a power interruption in decades (which I suppose added to their panic). Not all that useful to say "the US" here. California has it's wildfires and earthquakes. The west has extreme temperature swings. Southea…
Well my country sometimes has storms that do lead to power cuts for a few hours in the worst case, it's happened to me in 1999 and 2010 (but then there was also flooding that time). It's not happened since except for a couple of scheduled cuts that lasted a minute or so.
About five countries over, there is a special military operation that you might have heard of. About ten countries over there's another one. I'm pretty sure some neighbouring countries also have ice, forests, wind and wildfires.
I have a home server that is on 24x7 protected by a UPS. The UPS monitoring daemon (nut) provides a hook for calling a script when its status changes, so I have it push a high priority notification to my phone via ntfy whenever it goes on battery or off battery. I also have it broadcast on mqtt so that in the future I can have a dedicated daemon that will collect stats and take other actions that aren't really approp…
How hilariously complicated. Make UPS data available over SNMP, track via MRTG. A simple, decidedly 1990s solution that unsurprisingly still works. Pretty graphs and everything.
An IoT device actually monitoring mains (and only that) seems like a better solution, if only because it’ll work when you get a UPS for your router.
I've seen the John Oliver videos and all, so I know this comes as a surprise to no-one but... the US needs to get its act together and build some actual infrastructure. I've heard lots of encouraging stories on the Volts podcast about it, too. Not enough, not fast enough, from what I understand. I'm 38 and I've had power go out in my house for lots of reasons, but all of them came down to me blowing a fuse somehow. I…
A lot of homes have gas or propane generators that will cut on when a power outage is detected.
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> I also have it broadcast on mqtt so that in the future I can have a dedicated daemon that will collect stat mqtt? How many Docker containers do you have running to track UPS voltage? I keep forgetting SNMP is not "web scale" and only for greybeards on a minimum of 3+ prescription medications.
LOL, docker for running mosquitto at home? Who does that?
It was convenient. The official docker image includes all the tools you need.
Overkill? Sure. It sips memory and compute, but when most everything else is in docker, what is wrong with one more container.
I did a write-up here:
https://github.com/NortySpock/selfhosted-show-wiki/blob/bca6...
(Eventually I did switch over to NATS emulating an MQTT endpoint so I could get a broker with Prometheus-scrapeable `/metrics` endpoint )
My electricity reader supports ZigBee.
My provider knows minute by minute my consumption, yet only providers it on THEIR website, in a way that is useless to me.