PECO Outage Counter
peco
PECO is a public utility company that provides electricity to the Philadelphia metro.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
binary_sensor | Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…) |
What people report
PECO outage counter uses the utility cloud; an API change broke it in 2024 and was fixed.
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| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PECO Outage Counter | Works Cloud | Broke late 2023 after API change; fixed in 2024.7Saved copy… working version of Home Assistant Core? core-2023.11.5 ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue PECO Outage Counter ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### Diagnostics information Delete and reinstall. Error log message: 2024-01-24 09:58:11.146 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.peco] Finished fetching PECO Outage Count data in 0.188 seconds (success: False) ### Example YAML snippet _No response_ ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? _No response_ ### Additional information Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #109228 · 2024-01 |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Cloud polling
Goes through the maker’s cloud, asking it for updates every so often. Needs the internet and an account.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 37 (0.01%) |
|---|---|
| Added in | Home Assistant 2022.4 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @IceBotYT |
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
