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Mine runs on 4x AA batteries, which lasts a very long time. On the order of a year. Cutting electricity would indeed prevent the notification, but a dumb lock couldn’t send one even with all the power in the world.

Plus, in a shared apartment/condo building the power is much less likely to be cut and in a freestanding home one could theoretically put their network on a UPS so any notifications would still go out.

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kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

freestanding home one could theoretically put their network on a UPS so any notifications would still go out.

I have a UPS attached to my Synology NAS, and every time the unit is triggered it sends a notification (kinda, now that I think about it, how is it sent if no power electricity 🤔) so the NAS advises me that can’t ping to Synology after several minutes, is that what you mean?

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- EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean that if you have a cable modem and wireless router on a UPS, your internet should stay up unless the burglar also cuts the cable (much less likely).
  
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  - kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ahh yeah, that was me overthinking, pretty neat simple solution I have been wanting to do that since forever, hopefully a robber won’t be the cause of me finally doing it 😅
    
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    EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Haha yeah, the whole thing is a risk calculation that you can take all the way down the rabbit hole. But having network on UPS has other uses too, at least.
    
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