Yeah... I've been doing that I'll try going down the list again, but the best that I'm getting upsc is
ups.status: LB OL After unplugging the ups from the wall, and waiting more than 5 seconds, which is the polling frequency in my upsmon.conf the status doesn't change. Eli On Monday, 19 בJune 2006 06:23, Peter Selinger wrote: > Great. You'll have to play with "upstype" a bit more to figure out the > correct settings for your UPS. See the genericups man page, it > contains a lot of information. -- Peter > > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > Peter > > > > I think thats that. Just connected the UPS via serial cable and it > > seems to be working. So, I think I will revert to the stable version > > supplied by FC extras. I will keep the work that we've done together > > for a little while in case you decide to conitnue to work with me to > > get this to work with the usb interface. > > > > Currently my ups.conf contains > > > > [Gamatronic_D-Compact] > > driver = genericups > > upstype = 22 > > port = /dev/ttyS0 > > desc = "Gamatronic D-Compact > > > > and upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] produces > > > > driver.name: genericups > > driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0 > > driver.parameter.upstype: 22 > > driver.version: 2.1.0 > > driver.version.internal: 1.32 > > ups.mfr: Gamatronic Electronic Industries > > ups.model: Generic Alarm UPS > > ups.status: LB OB > > > > Once again your help has been very much appreicated > > > > Eli > > > > On Sunday, 18 =D7=91June 2006 09:07, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > Hi Peter > > > > > > First let me say that I have appreciated you're help up to now and was > > > quite amazed at how quickly (real time) we were able to get nut to > > > detect the ups. > > > > > > I understand that the rest of this is a different kettle of fish > > > altogether, so I do understand you're reluctance to dig into this > > > deeper. I will try to obtain serial cables over the next couple of > > > days and let you know. > > > > > > If you would be willing to continue with this, I remain available to > > > assist you in anyway that I can. If there is anything relatively quick > > > that can be done to at least get the parameter that says that "the ups > > > is now running on the battery as opposed to the regular electricity, > > > shutdown the computer now" that would be really great, and good enough. > > > > > > In any case with great appreciation > > > > > > Thank You > > > > > > Eli > > > > > > Quoting Peter Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > >> Here you go > > > >> > > > >> As you can see not very much information is available. > > > >> > > > >> upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] produces > > > >> > > > >> driver.name: newhidups > > > >> driver.parameter.port: auto > > > >> driver.version: 2.1.0 > > > >> driver.version.data: RICHCOMM HID 0.9 > > > >> driver.version.internal: 0.28 > > > >> ups.mfr: Richcomm Tech > > > >> ups.model: UPS2004 > > > >> > > > >> So what's next? > > > > > > > > I am afraid that this is bad news. This device does not seem to > > > > follow the standard USB "HID" protocol. This means that the device > > > > probably follows some proprietary custom communications protocol. > > > > There is not much I can do to reverse-engineer such a protocol. > > > > It would be a lot of work and very difficult; perhaps impossible. > > > > > > > > You options: > > > > > > > > * use the serial port instead of USB, if your UPS has one, > > > > * use a manufacturer-supplied driver instead of NUT, if there is one, > > > > or * buy a USB that is supported by NUT. > > > > > > > > I am sorry that I can't do more. Unless someone else on this mailing > > > > list has an idea...? > > > > > > > > -- Peter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Nut-upsuser mailing list > > > Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser