[Germerican]

Thanks emporiacs,

I did have the offline notification turned on. The problem is that outages that trigger offline events might occur for less than 10min, so they won’t necessarily trigger the 10min notification. If the switch doesn’t turn ON automatically, I won’t know that it’s OFF unless I manually check that it’s ON.

You wrote that emporia “currently” doesn’t support custom notifications, so I hope that you will consider and implement it at some point 😉

Thanks!

[Germerican]

Hi Eric,

I have a similar situation and found the following workaround: set multiple ON events in your schedule for the smartplug. E.g. if you set up hourly ON events (that would be 24 events), after a power outage your fridge will be ON again after max 1h, which should be fine for most fridges/freezers. (Don’t set any OFF events, but that should be self-explanatory…)

I hope that helps!

 

[Germerican]

realizing that this is an old thread, I have the same issue (a freezer in the garage that I monitor with a smartplug). After a recent outage, the smart plug was OFF and I did notice after over a day.

As a short term fix, I used the schedule function to turn the switch ON at every full hour (so 24 entries in the schedule for the smartplug). So my freezer will be offline max 1h after power has been restores after an outage.

I wish emporia would include the smartplugs in the notification alerts for an automated alert. I know by now, how much power my freezer draws per hour and day. It would be nice if I can set an notification alert based on a threshold, this would be able to detect if the device is off and also if somebody left the door open, which will show up in an increased power consumption.

 

[Germerican]

This might be a nice feature that I hope the emporia team will be looking into. As of now, you can schedule charging based on sun rise and sunset, there is a setting that allows to adjust for +/-1h, so you could tell the charger to start charging 1h after sun rise and stop 1h before sun set. But that of course does not factor in your actual PV energy production (e.g. like on cloudy or rainy days).

Should not be to hard to integrate that, however, most EV’s negotiate the charging rate at the beginning of the session, not sure how they would deal with an variable amp/kw input as it would be with your thought excess production.

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