OutagePing – Power Alarm

OutagePing turns any Android phone into a power-failure alarm. Keep a phone on its charger at the place you want to watch. When the power fails it notices within seconds and raises a full-screen siren that overrides silent mode - so a tripped breaker at 3am wakes you before the freezer thaws, before the fish tank goes cold, before the sump pump stops. Any Android phone will do. The one in your pocket works, so does a handset out of a drawer, and so does the cheapest thing on the shelf. The only requirement is that it stays plugged in where you want to be warned - so for somewhere you are away from, use a phone that stays there. But an alarm in an empty house wakes nobody. So the same app has a second job. WATCHING SOMEONE ELSE'S PLACE Install it on your own phone, choose "Watch another place", and type the six-digit code the other person gives you. From then on, their power failing wakes your phone - wherever you are. There is no sign-up, no account and no email address for the watcher: the code is the whole setup, and it takes about fifteen seconds standing next to the person who gave it to you. That is what makes this work for a parent's flat, a holiday home, or a neighbour who is away. WHAT IT DOES, FREE - Detects the moment the charger loses power - Full-screen alarm with a countdown, loud enough to wake a room - Overrides silent and Do Not Disturb - Survives reboots - it re-arms itself - A Test Drill that runs the whole sequence so you know it works before you need it - No ads, ever WHY A PHONE MAKES A GOOD POWER SENSOR It already has a battery, a screen, a speaker and a data connection. It knows the instant the charger stops delivering power, and because it runs on its own battery afterwards it can keep telling you so for hours after the lights have gone out. A purpose-built sensor costs more and does less. OUTAGEPING PRO - OPTIONAL Pro adds the part a siren cannot do: telling people who are not in the building. Everyone watching that phone is woken on their own handset, and email reaches anyone who will not install an app. A dead-man's switch means that if the monitoring phone stops reporting in altogether, your watchers are told anyway - the silence itself is the alert. The web portal shows you who is watching, whether their phone can actually be reached, and every failure that has happened. Pro is a separate subscription and is not required. The app is fully functional without it. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS NOT We do not send text messages or place phone calls. Alerts reach watchers as push notifications on their phones, and everyone else by email. A watcher whose phone cannot be reached is shown to you as exactly that, rather than counted as covered. GOOD FOR - A holiday home, a rental, or a flat you're away from - Keeping an eye on an elderly parent's power from your own home - Freezers, fish tanks, reptile vivariums, incubators - Sump pumps and dehumidifiers in basements - Medical equipment that needs mains power - Anyone on a grid that fails more than it should PRIVACY A watcher needs no account and gives us no email address. Contact addresses are encrypted before they are stored. No ads and no advertising identifiers. You can delete your account and everything attached to it from inside the app, at any time.