Will it notify me only about power outages? I am not so concerned with the temperature and am only an hour away.
466095
Yes; just don't activate the temperature monitoring function. It is a very nice unit. You have to read the instructions closely when setting the unit up.
2100551
Tom Allen...your answer made me laugh so hard that I could hardly breath! Too funny! I'm about to order one of these. I live about 100 miles east of Atlanta. I hope I don't take THAT grid down! By the way, my company's HQ is in Denver. I'm a full-time telecommuter. If you are the one responsible for the power outagages, I'll have to get a Denver cohort to track you down! <grin>
823698
Looks like you have gotten the answer from others. I really never worried about it. Fortunately out here in NM we don't have a lot of power failures. (knock on wood)
1785226
I am assuming that even if there is a light it might not alert properly. I originally purchased the item so that I could have contact between the floors of our house. The intercoms did NOT work and I returned them.
426914
Sorry, no warnings. The alarm does go off for a full minute. I use mine basically as a thermometer. I have other timers.
1047463
For prolonged power outages, it's possible that it would lose its settings. However, for brief power failure... it comes right back online when power is restored. Also, it DOES have a programable choice to set a Daylight Savings time option. It's a good thermostat... I'm happy that it was this that failed, and NOT a break in the heating elements under the tile!
191175
No, it only alerts the system. You can connect an alarm to a controlled outlet and switch it on automatically when the contact is opened or the sensor is moved
1300862
The alarm would inform you of any local earthquake activity. However the alarm is only useful if your have a plan of what to do when it goes off. I suggest you have a plan of what to do for a very mild quake, a moderate to severe quake (That will probably cause property damage), and a very severe quake. If you are really concerned, you should practice, with your family, so that you will all react automatically. Best wishes.
1140593
I wish I could help you, but so far, I have not experienced a power outage where I live since I purchased the set. I still have a plain old plug into the wall telephone outlet phone just in case.
1736747
if it was a power outage yes.... one of my units is in a mountain area that frequently losses power. I get an alert that the wifi is out and the later it tells me that it has reconnected.
989959
Not as far as I can tell. There is no place in the local or remote UI that shows this that I can find.There is no explicit notification (configured for email and/or local) for the unit powering up either - if there was you could deduce this.
700701
It depends on your surrounding ambient noise. We did hear ours going off in the basement from the upstairs and the other side of the house, but we didn't have much other noise on at the time. If we'd had the TV on, we probably wouldn't have heard it right away. If you change out the batteries For these when you do your smoke detectors, then it should sound the alarm for at least a day before losing power. Should be enough time for you to hear it when the house is quiet, like bedtime.
55173
Not that I'm aware of, I just had a power outage yesterday and the unit remained off
1542624
I didn't see anything in the manual that it would provide an alert. No failure yet, so I can't say from personal experience.
1168404
I am not sure why you would want to disable it, but you can disable it, sort of... There is a software parameter, length of time after the power fails before an alert goes out, that can be set to the maximum. That is to say, you can set it to call you after the power has only been out for one minute -- or you can set it to several hours before it calls you. By setting it to several hours (cannot recall what the maximum is), you can make calls due to power loss much less likely. But I do not think you can totally disable it.
15288
The home in which I currently live unfortunately has power outages pretty regularly. I have never lost any information or connectivity after the power has been successfully restored.
1157323
no...the only thing the batteries do, is keep the date constant in event of a power outage