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I am a huge fan of feeding this kind of info into Home Assistant via MQTT. It’s a little convoluted since their data model is not what I expected it to be (each

I am a huge fan of feeding this kind of info into Home Assistant via MQTT. It’s a little convoluted since their data model is not what I expected it to be (each sensor has a device record, not the other way around), but overall I am able to read e.g. air quality measurements from around my house and create automations based on that. I used to get various telemetry read outs via email in the mornings and while they are nice they still require me to remember to read an email and more importantly to notice that an email is missing. A more positive feedback system is more secure: send me an alarm notification when something is wrong the one day a year that it is, not 364 notifications a year that everything is right.

sathackr 6y ago
The issue with an alarm only when something is wrong, is that you don't know that your monitoring system is working until you actually get that notification. You could just check the system every day and avoid the 'heartbeat' email, but that's likely to be forgotten/missed more often than seeing/reading the received email. You could set up a monitoring system for the monitoring system...
- Chris2048 6y ago
  > You could set up a monitoring system for the monitoring system... I'm considering this for a home automation system: a smaller, simpler device connected to the network, powered via battery (recharged from mains but surge protected) aka UPS, and able to send SMS messages via mobile network. The idea is it's a heartbeat/monitoring system for the essentials: - power cut/outage - network down/outage - main server down, or has some problem Then I can get an SMS telling me something's wrong.
- lostlogin 6y ago
  Pingdom integration or similar may be an option. There are some very cheap or free options out there. Checking from outside is not ideal though as a network outage looks the same as a sinking, a leak or any other problem.
- batch12 6y ago
  I do this in Splunk for some events. I alert for no events received within X period of time.
- IgorPartola 6y ago
  HASS has the ability to send you alerts when a device/sensor is considered to be offline (so you could definite it as it’s offline if it hasn’t sent you an update in 28 hours or some such). You can also set it up to send you regular notifications too. Or you could just have this data in the dashboard and check it once in a while. Nothing really prevents you from doing all this but also utilizing a tool like that to WUPHF.com you soon as there is an issue.

sathackr 6y ago

The issue with an alarm only when something is wrong, is that you don't know that your monitoring system is working until you actually get that notification. You could just check the system every day and avoid the 'heartbeat' email, but that's likely to be forgotten/missed more often than seeing/reading the received email. You could set up a monitoring system for the monitoring system...

Chris2048 6y ago
> You could set up a monitoring system for the monitoring system... I'm considering this for a home automation system: a smaller, simpler device connected to the network, powered via battery (recharged from mains but surge protected) aka UPS, and able to send SMS messages via mobile network. The idea is it's a heartbeat/monitoring system for the essentials: - power cut/outage - network down/outage - main server down, or has some problem Then I can get an SMS telling me something's wrong.
lostlogin 6y ago
Pingdom integration or similar may be an option. There are some very cheap or free options out there. Checking from outside is not ideal though as a network outage looks the same as a sinking, a leak or any other problem.
batch12 6y ago
I do this in Splunk for some events. I alert for no events received within X period of time.
IgorPartola 6y ago
HASS has the ability to send you alerts when a device/sensor is considered to be offline (so you could definite it as it’s offline if it hasn’t sent you an update in 28 hours or some such). You can also set it up to send you regular notifications too. Or you could just have this data in the dashboard and check it once in a while. Nothing really prevents you from doing all this but also utilizing a tool like that to WUPHF.com you soon as there is an issue.