> PIC detects the event and transmits via the RF link to mother and
> tattles.  So video is out of the question, or a pilot light.  It has to
> detect and report

Seeing as you specified 'unplugged' and not 'turned off', a motion
sensor. Clipped or adhesived to the plug or immediate cable

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