APC Monitoring on Raspberry Pi with Prowl

A few scrips I use to monitor the status of my APC Back-UPS RS1000G with a Raspberry Pi. I use Prowl to send notifications to my phone to alert me of changes

Setup

Ensure Python is installed on your Raspberry Pi. Setup apcupsd on your Raspberry Pi following these instructions.

Clone and install prowlpy to use on your system

$ git clone https://github.com/jacobb/prowlpy
$ cd prowlpy
$ sudo python setup.py install

Clone and install rpi_prowl_apcupsd on your Pi

$ git clone https://github.com/ZachOrr/rpi_prowl_apcupsd.git
$ cd rpi_prowl_apcupsd
$ sudo python install.py

Modify apcupsd.service to setup environment variables with your Prowl API key

$ sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/apcupsd.service

[Unit]
Description=UPS power management daemon
Documentation=man:apcupsd(8)

[Service]
Environment='PROWL_API={YOUR_KEY_HERE}'
ExecStartPre=/lib/apcupsd/prestart
ExecStart=/sbin/apcupsd -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf
Type=forking
KillMode=process
PIDFile=/var/run/apcupsd.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload systemctl and restart apcupsd.service

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl restart apcupsd.service