No this isn't something for your Raspberry Pi.
What this does is detects a potentially life-threatening electrical fault known as a broken neutral. It offers a potential solution to a problem that has challenged the electricity industry worldwide for decades. All you do is plug it into a power outlet and if it detects a fault will sound an alarm and turn red for an emergency and amber for high/low voltage.
CablePI is free to Tasmanian residential and small businesses customers.
Considering it's been over 2 years…. yes.
cause the issue that way it can detect it, easiest way
I think they give these out to Tasmanians because they stick their fingers in the sockets to see if the power is on.
Forks* because fingers don't fit.
A bit too late for me, recently had power fluctuations (lights flickering like crazy) which fried some of the appliances. Called the electricity company which they fixed for free. They showed a copper cable inside the underground lines (green box) which was burnt.
From a bit of reading my understanding is that this is for detecting broken neutral faults in the supply network, not inside your house. I presume that in a network broken neutral fault situation the current can / will flow back through the ground and potentially result in a ground voltage rise.
Think this is what happened in this poor girls accident …
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/beldon-electric-shock-doctors…
If you try submitting the form from another state it says "Only Tasmanian postcodes are accepted".
Looks like they close the loophole after last time.
![[TAS] Free: CablePI Power Alarm (Detects power issues incl. Broken Neutrals) @ Tasnetworks](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/46/365046.jpg?h=bab4256b)
Hopefully they are better than last time.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-12/fire-safety-risk-promp…