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...into my > grandmother's house, I'd like to leave it running and forget about it > basically - in the knowledge and trust it would notify us if there's ever a > power cut! If you want to trust your setup, you need to guard against a silent failure, particularly if you have carers and cleaners with access to the equipment. I suggest you run a heartbeat check for example using NUT as described at http://rogerprice.org/NUT/ConfigExamples.A5.pdf chapter 6, together with a daily cron job which checks that the heartbeat is running, and sends you an e-mail if all is well. Ro...

Hi Charles, Thank you so much for getting back to me. I should have given you a bit of background in my last message but I'm actually doing this for my grandmother's benefit! She has Dementia and lives on her own so we want to be notified if she has a power cut... I'd hate to think she might be stumbling around in the dark (which has happened before)! In terms of stopping the older