A final note: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2014-April/008977.html
That message talks about the Eaton Nova AVR which on the Eaton 5E product page it says the 5E replaces the Nova. Do they perhaps share hardware/firmware? Thanks, Leith Bade le...@leithalweapon.geek.nz On 10 August 2014 10:16, Charles Lepple <clep...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 26, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Leith Bade <le...@leithalweapon.geek.nz> wrote: > >> First the beeper is annoying and loud and I worry it will wake everyone up >> at night. I read that you can mute the beeper temporarily (and this works) >> but that most UPSs do not allow you to permanently turn it off (I tried >> using upsrw but it said beeper.status was read only). > > Can you send the variable list of upsrw and the command list of upsc for > reference? I don't have any information on the 5E. > > I think there should be "beeper.mute" and "beeper.off" commands. > >> So is there a way to auto-mute the beeper? e.g on system boot or on power >> failure? > > That is an interesting point - we have scripting for power failures, but not > for startup. > >> Next I did some testing and I think I have a power race (is that the right >> term?). Basically if I switch off the AC, wait for battery to drain and the >> system to shutdown and turn off (the PC only so far). If I then turn the AC >> back on before the ~20 sec delay before the UPS turns off and on again the >> computer never boots automatically (I have set BIOS to power on after AC >> back). >> >> If I let the UPS turn off before I turn AC back on the computer will boot >> automatically. >> >> I think the problem is that either the UPS is now power cycling the load >> when AC is on and it reboots, or it is not turning it off for long enough >> for the PSU/computer to register this as a AC off and on event. > > It's probably the latter, but if you don't hear the relay in the first case, > that's a problem. > >> When the UPS reboots it beeps and I can hear a relay click so it must do >> something when it reboots with power on. >> >> How can I add a delay between UPS power off, and power on? > > The output of upsrw will confirm this, but many HID UPSes have separate > timers for delay before shutdown, and delay before turn-on (ups.delay.start). > > -- > Charles Lepple > clepple@gmail > > > _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
