On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Arjen de Korte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that you're volunteering to setup such a database/wiki? > Please do, this has been discussed many times before, but so far nobody > has taken up this task... :-)
I will, if I see this helpful. But first I want to fully understand what you're talking about it being useless. >> It is just matter of user-friendliness and simplicity. Just imagine - >> you're forcing >> every user of such UPS to do this experiment, spending time setting up >> hardware >> for this, capturing logs, etc, while we could minimize this useless >> time spending >> by taking values from one user and publishing them. > > For your information, although the idea behind the battery charge > calculation was made with the best intentions, it was flawed from the > start. The way the battery charge is calculated by the megatec driver is > better than nothing (but not much) and really can't reliably be used to > guesstimate the runtime remaining. We've wasted far too much time on this > already and I really think it is time to lay this finally to rest. What're you proposing instead? >> Jayson, please, post results of your test here. Even if developers won't >> go with >> creating database I described, your values still will be available for >> people through >> mailing list archives. :) > > I would say, don't waste your time on determining these values. For most > (if not all) applications, the values need to be determined on a > system-by-system basis to have some meaning. > > If one really needs a somewhat reliable guesstimate of the runtime > remaining, you should steer clear of UPSes that use the Megatec protocol, > since these systems are lacking some important things that are required to > make this of any use. I have written about this several times in the past, > both on the nut-user and nut-devel mailinglists. Could you point me to your posts or some other place where I can understand what information is required, what is missing, etc? -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris. SIPez LLC. SIP VoIP, IM and Presence Consulting http://www.SIPez.com tel: +1 (617) 273-4000 _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
