Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups dies after a few hours
Hi Nick, 2006/5/22, Nick Rosier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... do you know the cause of these errors? usb 1-1: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd newhidups rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110 usb 1-1: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd newhidups rqt 161 rq 1 len 8 ret -110 These messages pollute my messages-files; is this hardware/software? A problem with the USB-interface of the MGE-UPS? I'm running 2.0.3 with the fix for this bug and it's been running flawlessly with the exception of all these messages. the -110 error is a timeout. what are your kernel and libusb versions? What the frequency of these messages? I've not seen that kind of msg for long, but it was generally due to a temporary deny of service from the UPS, ie it's currently running a self test while the driver request the complete data tree... Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - RD Dpt Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
[Nut-upsuser] Is there any reason not to get an MGE Nova 1100?
I am going to be buying a new UPS soon and wanted to get something open. It looks like MGE is contributing to nuts and providing specs, so I wanted to get something from them. The Nova 1100 AVR w/USB looks to be in my price range and seems to provide the features I need. But I wanted to see if there were any gotchas with this UPS before buying one and figured this would be a good place to ask. ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
[Nut-upsuser] Nut issue or MGE issue?
Hi, I took the advice of Daniel O'Connor, found out what variables I had available to me, and put them in the conf. So now it looks like : [ellipse] driver = mge-shut port = /dev/cuaa0 desc = UPS lowbatt = 5 offdelay = 120 let the UPS charge up fully, 24 hours. I plugged a single lamp into it, with a 60W bulb. At 3:40p I pulled the power. This is a sample of some readings I took since then : Time% ChargeLoad 3:40100 2 3:4198 4 3:4294 6 3:4391 6 3:4488 4 3:4584 6 ==more time passed 4:0614 8 4:0710 6 4:087 6 4:093 6 4:100 6 4:110 6 4:120 6 It seems to have discharged pretty rapidly for only carrying a 60W bulb. The other issue is that at the current time its 4:44, and the power is STILL ON TO THE LAMP! Why has it been saying for 34 minutes that there is 0% battery available, but yet powering a load. And why if there is a bulb, which should be a fairly good constant (Though I have seen the bulb change intensity ever so little since its been on battery), is the load number changing? Please let me know if I might have a defective unit, if there is some way to calibrate it or if I am not doing the testing/monitoring properly. (At the same time upslog wasn't any help: 20060523 153139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 153639 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 154139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 154639 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 155139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 155639 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 160139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 160639 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 161139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 161639 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 162139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 162639 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 163139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 163639 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA 20060523 164139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA) Thanks, Tuc ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripplite SU2200XL
Well, bummer. I was hoping to get this to work. Thanks for your help though. I guess I'm going to have to spring for an SNMP module for this UPS. Do you know if Tripplite has done anything wonky in their implementation that would cause a problem with nut's SNMP interface? Thanks, Kirk Bocek Charles Lepple wrote: On 5/23/06, Kirk Bocek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Charles, I sent an email to Allan on the 18th but haven't heard back from him. Do you know if he's still involved in this project? Not sure - I don't think I have seen any emails from him recently. ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripplite SU2200XL
Well Charles, I sent an email to Allan on the 18th but haven't heard back from him. Do you know if he's still involved in this project? Kirk Bocek Charles Lepple wrote: On 5/17/06, Kirk Bocek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a lost cause? I see some other complaints here regarding Tripplite. Is this driver being maintained anymore? Most of the Tripplite issues are with their low-end USB and serial units. (The serial and non-PDC USB protocols are similar to each other, but not to the SU* series commands.) There is a chance that this UPS is returning something slightly different than the expected manufacturer string, so you could add a few debug statements to see what the UPS returns. You might also try emailing the maintainer, listed at the top of the source file: http://boxster.ghz.cc/projects/nut/browser/trunk/drivers/tripplitesu.c ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut issue or MGE issue?
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 06:15, Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: I plugged a single lamp into it, with a 60W bulb. At 3:40p I pulled the power. This is a sample of some readings I took since then : It seems to have discharged pretty rapidly for only carrying a 60W bulb. The other issue is that at the current time its 4:44, and the power is STILL ON TO THE LAMP! Why has it been saying for 34 minutes that there is 0% battery available, but yet powering a load. And why if there is a bulb, which should be a fairly good constant (Though I have seen the bulb change intensity ever so little since its been on battery), is the load number changing? The measured load is varying.. If it truly is only a 60W globe then I would say the UPS is broken. Please let me know if I might have a defective unit, if there is some way to calibrate it or if I am not doing the testing/monitoring properly. You may be able to do a battery test, try.. upscmd -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if there is a battery test you can do, I get.. kiruna:~upscmd -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instant commands supported on UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: test.battery.start.quick - Unavailable test.battery.start.deep - Unavailable test.battery.stop - Stop the battery test load.off - Turn off the load immediately load.on - Turn on the load immediately (I think the Unavailable means the description is unknown, not that the test is unavailable. (At the same time upslog wasn't any help: 20060523 153139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA Looks like you may have specifed the UPS to upslog incorrectly or upsd isn't running. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpXMWH33n4dW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut issue or MGE issue?
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 06:15, Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: I plugged a single lamp into it, with a 60W bulb. At 3:40p I pulled the power. This is a sample of some readings I took since then : It seems to have discharged pretty rapidly for only carrying a 60W bulb. The other issue is that at the current time its 4:44, and the power is STILL ON TO THE LAMP! Why has it been saying for 34 minutes that there is 0% battery available, but yet powering a load. And why if there = is a bulb, which should be a fairly good constant (Though I have seen the bulb change intensity ever so little since its been on battery), is the load number changing? The measured load is varying.. If it truly is only a 60W globe then I would say the UPS is broken. It is a desk lamp, with only a 60W Sylvania bulb in it. There is NOTHING else plugged in, not even the monitoring server. I was afraid it was broken. When I plugged the UPS back in, the first monitor of it said there was an 86% charge already. I plugged it in at 6pm. Its now 8pm and its claiming 91% charged. Please let me know if I might have a defective unit, if there is some way to calibrate it or if I am not doing the testing/monitoring properly. You may be able to do a battery test, try.. upscmd -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if there is a battery test you can do, I get.. kiruna:~upscmd -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instant commands supported on UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: test.battery.start.quick - Unavailable test.battery.start.deep - Unavailable test.battery.stop - Stop the battery test load.off - Turn off the load immediately load.on - Turn on the load immediately (I think the Unavailable means the description is unknown, not that the t= est=20 is unavailable. himinbjorg# upscmd -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instant commands supported on UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: load.off - Turn off the load immediately load.on - Turn on the load immediately shutdown.return - Turn off the load and return when power is back shutdown.stayoff - Turn off the load and remain off test.battery.start - Start a battery test test.battery.stop - Stop the battery test I'll wait for it to claim to be fully charged before I start anything. (At the same time upslog wasn't any help: 20060523 153139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA Looks like you may have specifed the UPS to upslog incorrectly or upsd isn't running. My bad... I had set the necessary variables incorrectly. Tuc ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripplite SU2200XL
I have a very similar UPS with the SNMP module and it works fine. Here are all the fields I get with upsc: battery.charge: 100.0 battery.voltage: 040.8 driver.name: snmp-ups driver.parameter.port: tripplite1 driver.version: 2.0.0 driver.version.internal: 0.40 input.frequency: 059.9 input.voltage: 115.0 ups.firmware.aux: Tripp Lite 3.0.37 (GAPI 2.0) ups.load: 020.0 ups.mfr: Tripp Lite ups.model: SMART1500RMXL2Ua ups.status: OL Kirk Bocek wrote: Well, bummer. I was hoping to get this to work. Thanks for your help though. I guess I'm going to have to spring for an SNMP module for this UPS. Do you know if Tripplite has done anything wonky in their implementation that would cause a problem with nut's SNMP interface? -- Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/ greg @ gulik.org ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripplite SU2200XL
Groovy. Thanks for the info Gregory. Did you have any gotchas setting it up? Kirk Bocek Gregory Gulik wrote: I have a very similar UPS with the SNMP module and it works fine. Here are all the fields I get with upsc: battery.charge: 100.0 battery.voltage: 040.8 driver.name: snmp-ups driver.parameter.port: tripplite1 driver.version: 2.0.0 driver.version.internal: 0.40 input.frequency: 059.9 input.voltage: 115.0 ups.firmware.aux: Tripp Lite 3.0.37 (GAPI 2.0) ups.load: 020.0 ups.mfr: Tripp Lite ups.model: SMART1500RMXL2Ua ups.status: OL Kirk Bocek wrote: Well, bummer. I was hoping to get this to work. Thanks for your help though. I guess I'm going to have to spring for an SNMP module for this UPS. Do you know if Tripplite has done anything wonky in their implementation that would cause a problem with nut's SNMP interface? ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] USB UPS and FreeBSD
Hello, for me the USB works on FreeBSD 6.0 with custom kernell. Please find notes on http://wiki.botka.homeunix.org/bin/view/Main/NetworkUpsToolsUsb There has been a thread about this issue recently. I wonder that your USB attaches to /dev/ugen0 on FreeBSD 6.0. I had to disable uhid driver to get ugen. All these problems are solved on 6.1 with libusb 0.1.12 has been reported. Cheers, -vlado D000 On Mon, 22 May 2006, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I am looking at the newhid driver for this Pulsar EXtreme here but it gives odd results, for example there is no status variable :) eg debug level is '2' Checking device (0463/) (/dev/usb0//dev/ugen0) - VendorID: 0463 - ProductID: - Manufacturer: unknown - Product: unknown - Serial Number: unknown - Bus: /dev/usb0 Trying to match device Device matches HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 1535) Report descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 1535) Found HID device Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3) Report Descriptor size = 1535 Detected a UPS: unknown/unknown Using subdriver: MGE HID 0.8 Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PowerSummaryID, Type: Feature, Value: 1.00 Path: UPS.PowerSummary.FlowID, Type: Feature, Value: 4.00 Can't retrieve Report 52 (-5/5): Input/output error Path: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacityLimitSetting, Type: Feature Path: UPS.PowerSummary.Rechargeable, Type: Feature, Value: 1.00 Path: UPS.PowerSummary.CapacityMode, Type: Feature, Value: 2.00 ... I get quite a number of IO errors - it seems these come from libusb but I am not sure under what circumstances it returns it. This is a 6.0 machine running NUT 2.0.3 - has anyone been able to connect to a USB UPS with FreeBSD? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
