/mqtt-energy-monitor

UPS MQTT home automation controller to gracefully shutdown your computer

MQTT Energy Monitor

Menu bar application to automatically shutdown your system on MQTT message received from a power monitoring device via LWT, useful when your UPS is not power enough to supply power forever or without easy cable/wireless interface. On Mac OS, no administrator privilegies required

welcome-page

Use case

  • Plug your embedded device monitor to a not protected power socket and connected to your mqtt broker or to your self hosted computer broker (use localhost in settings)
  • Start this tool on startup
  • On blackout, after notification, your system will be gracefully turned off.

Configuration

You can use the GUI to fully configure settings, and also debug mode. If enabled it will show a notification instead fully shutdown your system.

Disclaimer

  • I will release source code for contribution soon
  • Full tested on Mac OS, work in progress for Windows.