On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Charles Lepple <clep...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like we can merge that branch into master?
I thought I had discovered a firmware difference (or something) because I couldn't get the battery tests to run. But then I realized that I wasn't running the actual test under the right user, with the right permissions. Duh. So I then went back and tested it against three other Rpi/Tripp-Lite SMARTUPS500RT1U units and had success with every one of them. I am not sure how variant the firmware is, but I can tell you that some of these units were purchased almost a full year ahead of one of the others and they all work the same. So I would say that you are fine to commit your changes! > Plugging into the same hub usually assigns them the same bus. :-( Yep, it did. > To kludge around this, add a hub in front of one UPS, and plug the other UPS > directly into the host. I hadn't thought of that. I am actually using a "2 port hub", or a non-powered splitter so that I can attach three UPS's to a two USB port RPi. But I hadn't thought about trying to identify the UPS by the hub it's plugged into? Perhaps I will play with that. I could chain two splitters together, use a native port, and make all three work! Hah! Kidding of course. This may be a multiple RPi job. > I guess I assumed you had a 1:1 mapping between the UPS and Raspberry Pi > boards. Yep, there is only this one rack in my environment with multiple Tripp-Lites in it. Kind of peed' me off when a vendor came in and dropped all this crap into my rack. I had purchased a Liebert 2500 watt UPS just for their stuff, and now all that is plugged into it is one of my small switches. When the batteries go in them, I will probably yank them out and get everyone onto the one monitored Liebert. Thanks again for your help Charles. I have written some shell scripts to do some testing for me which I can share to the community if you think it might be helpful. My environment is probably far different than the common user. I don't care to run shutdown scripts, because instead of servers I have a single Cisco switch plugged into most of mine. Since the switch is running off of flash, and has no "safe shutdown routine", with the power is gone, it's gone! But I still need to know about it. So my shutdown routine is more of an alert routine. Anyhow, let me know if you think that would be useful. Otherwise, I will keep it under my hat. I'm not out to de-rail or confuse people who are using the product as it was intended. ;-) Steve Ballantyne Network Engineer MCSE/MCDST; Novell CLA; LPIC-1; CTT+; A+; Network+; Linux+; Server+; I-Net+; Security+; SonicWALL CSSA _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser