Is there a way to configure my account so that if a particular camera gets unplugged from the electric outlet (that is, loses power), I get alerted? (e.g. an alarm or email)?
If so, how?
If not, I strongly suggest adding this feature.
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Hello @jade and welcome to the community.
As far as I am aware it would not be able to tell you it lost power, as the server would only know it is offline and not WHY it is offline. We are working on ways for the camera to give notifications for when they are offline but we are not quite there yet.
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Sounds good. Will add this to the wishlist.
(Idea is that I want to know if someone unplugged my camera - the server doesn’t need to know why - just that it cannot reach the camera anymore - could be a network issue, a human error/act, partial power loss in that part of the home, etc.)
Actually, it doesn’t seem like the Wishlist allows me to post this there. Any pointers?
Just add a new comment to this existing wishlist topic and click the “Vote” button in the upper left all the way at the top if the thread:
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Upvoted and commented (Loss of Communication/Network Connection Notification & Log - #399 by jade). Thanks!
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There are also local devices that can reside on your network to detect devices failing to respond. For example my router (not a typical consumer grade router) can run scripts, and I have a script that pings each of my IoT devices and alerts me if any are not responding.
Note for anyone using a Mikrotik router, I am happy to send you my script.
For the short-term, I created a shell script that pings the device every 10 minutes (via a cronjob) and if substrings are found in the response, it sends me an email - it however is flaky and occasionally sends me an email for transient networking errors when the ping happens
Curious what are you running that on? Presumably something either that is already running 24x7 or you don’t mind it doing so.
I have some computers and some Raspberry Pis running 24/7. This particular one runs off of a Mac Studio.
Welcome to my world of having a higher electric bill than you would like 
Currently I have four RasPis, and a Dell server that run 24x7. Those are all in the air conditioned data cabinet along with two routers, two 26 port switches, and some radio stuff… Mid October through Mid January it’s a bunch more.
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