On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:08 PM, Charles Lepple <clep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:46 PM, John Thurston <john.thurs...@alaska.gov> wrote: > >> I bought a very nice little, self contained, UPS from mini-box: >> http://www.mini-box.com/OpenUPS2 >> thinking it would be handled by NUT. >> I think I misread or misinterpreted the HCL >> http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html > > Correct, we only knew about the original openUPS (USB ID 04d8:d004) at the > time that was written. > >> The OpenUPS UPS is listed as supported under usbhid-ups, and I had assumed >> that OpenUPS2 would be as well. Bzzzzt. I get a unknown device ID for d005 >> >> Is adding (or hacking) support for this device into the HID driver something >> simple which can be done without a recompile? > > As a first test, start upsd (let us know if you need more details, but this > depends on how your OS/distribution packages things up) and then run the > usbhid-ups driver manually, as root, with an extra option: > > path/to/usbhid-ups -u root -x productid=d005 -a name-of-ups > > If everything is the same under the hood, you can add "productid=d005" to > ups.conf. You will also want to copy the line in > /etc/udev/52-nut-usbups.rules that looks like this: > > ATTR{idVendor}=="04d8", ATTR{idProduct}=="d004", MODE="664", GROUP="nobody" > > and change the "d004" to "d005". > > If that works, let us know and we will add it to the driver. John, Did this work when adding "-x productid=d005"? If so, we can update the driver so that it matches automatically. The output of "upsc" would also be handy, for future reference. -- 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
