RV Watch — 24/7 Real-Time RV Watch, by House on Hold

Your RV sits alone for weeks. A leak, a dead AC, a tripped breaker doesn’t care.

An RV fails quietly. A roof seam leaks a little at a time until the wall is rot. Shore power trips and everything inside starts warming, spoiling, or draining. Nobody walks past to notice — until the damage is the story. RV Watch puts a sensor kit in your rig that checks every minute and tells you the moment something’s wrong:

Water where it shouldn’t be — the slow leak that becomes a rotted wall
Power lost — shore power, breaker, or battery trouble, flagged as it happens
Heat and humidity climbing — before mold takes the interior
Smoke and carbon monoxide — in a box that runs on propane and generators

Self-install kit — it’s your rig, you know every cabinet. Hybrid connection: WiFi when it’s there, its own cellular when you’re boondocking or the WiFi dies. And Lucy tells you in plain English the moment any of it happens.

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Every 60 sec your rig is checked
5 senses water · power · heat · smoke · CO
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Built by RVers. The first RV Watch system is being tested in our own fifth wheel, summers in the Keys — same as yours.

Pet Watch — the premium RV Watch profile

The AC dying is an errand problem. The AC dying with your dog inside is not.

Every RVer knows the story, or knows somebody it happened to. The rig is hooked up, the AC is humming, you run to the beach or the store. The power trips. The AC stops. A sealed RV in the summer sun heats up frighteningly fast — and a dog can’t sweat, can’t open a door, and can’t call you. By the time you’re back, there is nothing left to fix.

Pet Watch exists so that call reaches you in time. It runs on the same sensors already watching your rig, with different rules — because with a dog aboard, there is no ‘wait and see’:

Power loss alerts instantly. No quiet period, no grace window. A tripped breaker is the emergency’s first minute, and you hear about it in that minute — while the rig is still cool.
Temperature is guarded for who’s aboard. Your pet profile names the dogs in the rig. Flat-faced breeds — Frenchies, bulldogs — can’t shed heat like other dogs, and Pet Watch keeps tighter margins for them.
Lucy doesn’t stop at one message. If you don’t acknowledge, she works your contact list — partner, family, the neighbor two sites down — until a human being answers. A warning nobody saw isn’t a warning.
The alert path can’t die with the rig. The hub runs on its own battery and a hybrid connection, so the trip that killed your power doesn’t kill the message about it.

Pet Watch is the premium profile on RV Watch — the rig watch and the pet watch together. Leave the dogs. Keep the promise you made them.

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Straight answers

Can I leave my dog in the RV with the AC on?

RVers do it every day, and the AC itself is rarely the problem. The danger is what happens when the power or the AC fails and nobody knows — a tripped breaker, a shore-power fault, a source switch that doesn’t take. Leaving a dog in a running RV is a bet that nothing fails while you’re gone. Monitoring is what turns that bet into a plan: the failure gets announced in its first minute, while the rig is still cool and there’s time to act.

How fast does a parked RV get dangerous inside?

Faster than your errand. A sealed RV in direct summer sun heats like a vehicle, not like a house — the dangerous climb starts in minutes, and dogs overheat far quicker than people because they can’t sweat. Flat-faced breeds are in danger soonest of all. That speed is the whole design brief for Pet Watch: alert at the power trip, not at a temperature — by the time a temperature alarm is the first news, the clock is already working against you.

What happens if my RV loses power with my dog inside?

With Pet Watch on: the hub notices the loss the moment it happens — it runs on its own battery, so the outage doesn’t silence it — and Lucy alerts you instantly, by app and by text. If you don’t acknowledge, she escalates through the contacts you named until a person answers. The temperature guard keeps watch the whole time, so you’re not guessing how hot it’s getting in there.

Does RV Watch need WiFi?

No. RV Watch is hybrid: it uses WiFi when WiFi is there, and its own cellular connection when it isn’t — boondocking, storage lots, or the moment the campground WiFi dies along with the power. The single-purpose pet monitors are cellular-only for the same reason; a safety alert that depends on campground WiFi isn’t a safety system.

What does RV Watch check besides temperature?

Water leaks (the slow kind that rot walls and floors), power loss, humidity climbing toward mold, smoke, and carbon monoxide — sensors placed where the risks live, not one box reading the air where it happens to sit. Temperature and pets are one chapter of what an unattended RV can suffer; RV Watch reads the whole book.

How is RV Watch different from a pet temperature monitor?

A pet monitor is one device watching temperature and power from one spot, and its job ends at sending an alert. RV Watch watches the whole rig — water, power, environment, smoke, CO — and its alerts come from Lucy, who doesn’t consider the job done when a message is sent: she makes sure a person got it. Pet Watch then adds the pet profile and the no-waiting rules on top of the full rig watch, instead of instead of it.

Do I install it myself?

Yes — RV Watch is a self-install kit, built for people who already know their own rig. Sensors go where the risks are (under sinks, at the water heater, living space for environment and smoke/CO), the hub plugs in, and Lucy’s onboarding call walks your setup until every sensor reads in. If a man can winterize his own rig, he can install this.

First we prove it. Then you can buy it.

Where it stands, honestly: the first RV Watch system is going into our own fifth wheel for a Keys summer — water, power, heat, smoke, CO, and the dogs — before a single kit is sold to a stranger. We don’t sell what isn’t on the shelf, and we don’t take money against a product we haven’t lived with.

The founding RV list opens now. Join it and you’re in line, in order, for the first kits when proof is done — and you’ll see the test results, good or bad, as they happen.