Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get CyberPower UPS to work with Raspberry Pi 4

2020-11-01 Thread Robert Stocker
Okay, good to know. I don't think I need to go "the hard way" on this one. Thanks so much for all your help. Next I just need to get my *other* RPi set up as a client so it shuts down, too. But I think I have a leg up on things now. On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 11:37 AM Charles Lepple wrote: > On

Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups.test.result meaning

2020-11-01 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Thanks for a cogent explanation Charles. Sitting in your chair, the temptation to point those errors out in the logs, potentially giving the vendor an elbow in the ribs to fix their liars would be hard to resist. Agreed. 1. Any business aiming at

Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups.test.result meaning

2020-11-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 November 2020 09:02:56 Charles Lepple wrote: > Gene, > > you might have missed this email, and I admit I wasn't very precise > with my wording. Yes, or at least I don't recall it, which at my age IS a possibility. More below as needed. > This particular UPS model is returning a

Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups.test.result meaning

2020-11-01 Thread Rick Dicaire
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 9:03 AM Charles Lepple wrote: > This particular UPS model is returning a fixed (in the sense of > "constant") integer "24" (not 24.0) for both battery voltage and nominal > battery voltage, likely because according to the vendor, some models do not > have a battery voltage

Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups.test.result meaning

2020-11-01 Thread Charles Lepple
On Oct 31, 2020, at 10:53 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2020, at 8:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> battery.voltage: 16.0 >> At that voltage, 5 of the 12 cells are shorted >>> battery.voltage.nominal: 24 > > The 16.0 is a scaled version of the fixed (bogus) 24.0 V reading, similar

Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups.test.result meaning

2020-11-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2020 21:59:32 Rick Dicaire wrote: > > > battery.voltage: 16.0 > > > > At that voltage, 5 of the 12 cells are shorted > > > > > output.voltage: 138.0 > > > > too high by about 15 volts > > > > Wow! That battery is beyond toasted, shoulda been replaced months > > ago. And