On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Carmel wrote:
I have the opportunity to replace an aging UPS with a new APC BE750G
Power Saving Battery Back-UPS one. My question is if anyone here has
ever used this device under FreeBSD. APC does not have, or at least I
couldn't find any, software for a FreeBSD system. Without the software,
the unit is basically useless.
I Googled and found an old message regarding FreeBSD and a similar UPS
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/062543.html>
dated 10/2004. Are those issues still relevant? According to
<http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/#freebsd> I need to insure that this is
a "SmartUPS" The unit I am looking at does not qualify.
I might add that my present unit is connected to a Windows machine. I
intend to replace that one and hook up both PCs to it.
sysutils/apcupsd works with a lot of APC units. Offhand, I know it
works with a several-year-old Back-UPS XS unit (not mine), and with all
my older Smart-UPS units. Mac people say that apcupsd works with the
BE750G: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100314155518972
The Smart-UPS models are preferred for better quality. In some of the
newer units, APC has gone to a proprietary communications protocol.
The problem units are shown on the apcupsd.com site.
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