APCAlert

A Discord alert event for APC branded UPS battery backups.

Note that while .NET 6 & the APC UPS Daemon are both cross-platform, this project is built with Windows in mind as it creates .bat files and uses the Windows apcupsd installation directory. For Linux servers, check out https://github.com/bp1313/apcupsd-discord, which inspired this project.

Installation

1. First, make sure you have the prerequisites downloaded & installed:
   • .NET 6 Runtime https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0
   • APCUPSD http://www.apcupsd.org (also follow the installation instructions to install the driver & make sure the daemon is working with your UPS http://www.apcupsd.org/manual/manual.html#windows-usb-configuration)
2. Either clone the repo with git or download as a zip
3. Open Program.cs and change the values of DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL and, optionally, BATTERY_STATUS_CHECK_FREQUENCY
4. Open command prompt, cd to the location of the .csproj and run dotnet build. This should build the .exe and place it (along with the onbattery.bat and offbattery.bat event handlers) in the apcupsd installation directory: C:\apcupsd\etc\apcupsd
5. You're all set! Hopefully this never runs to alert you that the power's out 😊