Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Kjell Claesson wrote: Jeffrey B. Green wrote: I'll go ahead and build a version of 2.4.1 for lenny (backports doesn't seem to have nut in it) to see what happens... Okay. Built it (nut 2.4.1) and put it on the server. The only type that works for that ups is BNT-other. When nut starts up

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-30 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Kjell Claesson wrote: This looks god. Status signaling is working, so now it is only the calculation of the values returned from the ups. The tricky thing is that you use an 'old' driver. The version of nut is up to 2.4.1 stable. And is soon going to 2.6.x. Your internal revision is 0.5

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kjell Claesson wrote: The default for the driver is Trust ups and it sends 11 bytes. Yours is sending 16. So check the manual page for the powercom driver, and check if you can make it talk to it. Problem is that it may use some odd

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Jeffrey B. Green wrote: I'll experiment with the driver variable options, however, if you know the correct (or almost correct) settings, then that info would be greatly appreciated. Setting the line voltage variable to 120 produces: % upsc xtreme battery.charge: 98.1 driver.name: powercom

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kjell Claesson wrote: Great Jeff, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: I'll experiment with the driver variable options, however, if you know the correct (or almost correct) settings, then that info would be greatly appreciated. No my baby is the bcmxcp

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Kjell Claesson wrote: Then you have to make a real test. Best is to load it with some light-bulbs as it is going to shut off. Have the communication to the computer and load it with the bulbs until it signals LB (Low Battery). Now check if it shutting down properly. Sorry about that

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kjell Claesson wrote: Jeff, The previous values were under load, which I forgot to mention. It has a ~500W server and 10W switch on it. Then the ups.load is low also. But you should not do the LB shutdown test with the server attached. It may

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Kjell Claesson wrote: The previous values were under load, which I forgot to mention. It has a ~500W server and 10W switch on it. Then the ups.load is low also. But you should not do the LB shutdown test with the server attached. It may power off without a warning. The readings just

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Lepple wrote: On Dec 27, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: I'll be talking with a XPCC support person tomorrow, though I suspect he'll punt it back to me when it comes to my nut driver problem. I don't know anything about XPCC

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey B. Green wrote: However, they are fairly simple tools and not configurable beyond the command line arguments specifying the serial line and polling times. Sorry, small correction. Not polling times, rather the breakout delay time

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kjell Claesson wrote: Hi Jeff, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: However, they are fairly simple tools and not configurable beyond the command line arguments specifying the serial line and polling times. Sorry, small correction. Not polling times, rather

Re: [Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kjell Claesson wrote: Then if you can check the speed on the port. The powercom driver is using 1200 b/s. % stty -F /dev/ttyS0 speed 1200 baud; line = 0; min = 0; time = 0; ignbrk -brkint -icrnl -imaxbel - -opost -onlcr - -isig -icanon -echo

[Nut-upsuser] XPCC XVRT-1000 driver

2009-12-27 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone used nut with a XPCC UPS, in particular one of the XVRT units? Their supplied monitoring tool works, but I'd really prefer to use nut if possible. I've systematically gone through each of the drivers in /lib/nut and none seem to talk with