Our family has a new weekend house in College Station and the storms this week knocked out power while we were gone. I went yesterday and power was still out. When I called power company, they asked if I'd reset it yet with my tv remote!!!! I had never heard of this but it worked as the contractor in the meter resets itself with IR signal from any tv remote. Now my question is how was I supposed to know the power was out and is there a way to check and do this remotely without having to drive to BCS. It would suck to have a freezer thaw out because of not knowing. The customer service at BTU was not very knowledgeable beyond the remote so thought I'd ask on here to see how others handle being remote.