> I'm looking for a UPS that the beeper can be silenced with nut > via ups.beeper.status variable for a HTPC close to bedrooms.
You should not be looking for the 'ups.beeper.status' variable, this is supposed to be read-only (although it not always is, for all drivers). Instead, you want to lookup the 'beeper.disable' command that has made it into nut-2.2.1-pre1. http://www.networkupstools.org/source/2.2/testing/nut-2.2.1-pre1.tar.gz Before that, the 'beeper.(on|off|mute)' commands were a mess and can't be relied upon. > I have googled extensively and there is not a lot of information > about which UPS's actually support this feature. There are few > references to UPS's that apparently list ups.beeper.status as being > available, but without actually being software configurable such as: > http://www.757.org/~joat/wiki/index.php/Linux_and_the_APC500_UPS See above. An alternative would be to just remove the beeper from the UPS. I did that for exactly the same reasons on a UPS that didn't support permanently silencing the beeper. It's a simple and 100% effective solution, although it will probably void your warranty. > One lead is Belkin 650 VA UPS, but I'd like a few more choices. > http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?1,2019986,2019986 > > Unfortunately I live in 240v part of the world, so the number of > brands/models available is relatively limited, with APC, Belkin, > CyberPower, HP, KME, OPTI-UPS, Powerware, Upsonic being available. Many USB HID models will probably support this feature. But remember that the fact that a command is made available in a driver, doesn't neccessarily mean it is supported on *all* models for which it can be used. So you'd better try this out before going to sleep. Best regards, Arjen -- Eindhoven - The Netherlands Key fingerprint - 66 4E 03 2C 9D B5 CB 9B 7A FE 7E C1 EE 88 BC 57 _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser