Got an update for APC Modbus users: a new PR is waiting for real-life testing for settable variables and instant commands support.
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/pull/2184 As before, a custom build of libmodbus may be needed for USB support (detailed in the earlier PR), but Serial and TCP may already be well served by a distro near you! Jim On Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 01:08 Jim Klimov <jimklimov+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello fellow NUTs :) > > It is my great pleasure to get a bit of sunshine from other people's > work, and announce that the initial pull request for `apc_modbus` NUT > driver has recently been merged to the main NUT codebase, so it would be > part of an eventual 2.8.1 release. Great thanks go to Axel Gembe for the > implementation, and to numerous community members for testing as well as > their bug-fix and feature suggestions. It is my understanding that some > thanks also goes to the apcupsd project that served as inspiration for data > points that we can collect from the devices, as well as for its unfortunate > development inactivity that convinced someone to step up and implement a > native NUT driver for the "new" APC devices (~2010+) which all but > deprecated USB HID support. Really, this feature was very long awaited! > > At the moment the driver is "read-only", with commands and variables to > be implemented later (hopefully some coming before 2.8.1 cut-off point). It > can be used with the already published and packaged libmodbus versions for > Serial-port and TCP support (with add-in network management cards). However > please note that USB support is not currently part of the upstream library, > but rather is provided by a fork (PR pending). It is not certain > whether/when exactly such a feature will appear in the upstream library > project - it does not seem very actively maintained at the moment :\ > > For more details please see > https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/pull/2063 and > https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issue/139. > > Jim Klimov > >
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