Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-16 Thread Arjen de Korte
Yes, this was what I tried first and it made no difference. upsdrvctl seems to wait until the driver is fully initialized and only then goes into the background. Looks like I hadn't tried it with a 30 second sleep. Putting a sleep 30 between upsdrvctl and upsd also works so I guess the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: I guess the problem is that Synchronizing... step. Indeed. Either the driver needs more time to dump all the data than is allowed for in upsd or it could also be that the first connection to the driver always fails. Since we first declare a driver stale before

RE: [Nut-upsuser] (no subject)

2006-11-16 Thread Mike Hill
I tried to run newhidups myself with the debugging messages turned on and I got the following response: debug level is '4' Checking device (/) (003/001) - VendorID: - ProductID: - Manufacturer: unknown - Product: unknown - Serial Number: unknown - Bus: 003 Trying to match device

[Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Eric Masson
Hello, I'm facing problems as I'm installing NUT to monitor a MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS on a FreeBSD 6.1 box. UPS is recognized as : ugen0: MGE UPS SYSTEMS ELLIPSE, rev 1.10/42.41, addr 2 I'm temporarily using root profile (devfs/devd scripts not modified atm). newhidups starts runs fine

[Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Eric Masson
Eric Masson a écrit : Hello, I've tried to stop and relaunch it many times but output is always the same. I've just received a mail from Pedro Côrte Real telling me that waiting before launching upsd could solve the problem. I've tried, but no luck. newhidups was launched 2 hours ago, and

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-16 Thread Arjen de Korte
I guess the problem is that Synchronizing... step. Indeed. Either the driver needs more time to dump all the data than is allowed for in upsd or it could also be that the first connection to the driver always fails. Since we first declare a driver stale before (re)connecting, this will show

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Recommendation for big UPS (was CyberPower PR2200)

2006-11-16 Thread Charles Lepple
On 11/15/06, Doug Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 1200AVR. I found out from the website that you can program Windows XP to use it as a contact-closure type of UPS. The generic windows custom UPS settings are: Power Fail/On Battery - Negative, Low Battery - Negative, UPS Shutdown -

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/16/06, Eric Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I launch upsd, it barfs vith : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ /usr/local/sbin/upsd -u root Password: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4 Connected to UPS [mge]: newhidups-auto Synchronizing giving up This looks like the same problem I was having. If

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Arjen de Korte
I've just received a mail from Pedro Côrte Real telling me that waiting before launching upsd could solve the problem. I've tried, but no luck. newhidups was launched 2 hours ago, and I tried to launch upsd 15 minutes ago. upsd output is : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo upsd - -u root

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS,

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Eric Masson wrote: Arjen de Korte a =E9crit : Hello Arjen, This is a different problem, your driver is not answering at all and it looks like the dumpall command is not processed. Upgrading to the lates= t development version would be a good idea now, since a few things have

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Your problem may be related to the way upsd and upsdrvctl interact. There are several ways to start the driver: (1) newhidups [options] auto (2) newhidups [options] -a myprofile (3) upsdrvctl start myprofile where myprofile is the name of a profile defined in ups.conf. Except for testing

[Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Eric Masson
Peter Selinger a écrit : Hello Peter, Your problem may be related to the way upsd and upsdrvctl interact. There are several ways to start the driver: (1) newhidups [options] auto (2) newhidups [options] -a myprofile (3) upsdrvctl start myprofile where myprofile is the name of a profile

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS,

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Strange. Can you rule out a permissions problem? What is the content of /var/state/ups? Are you running both the driver and upsd with -u root? Are you sure driver and upsd are from the same NUT version? (I sometimes have problems when running a driver directly from the NUT source directory against