Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-19 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Arjen, On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:57:24 +0200, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Citeren Jean Delvare : > > > Now the good news: the battery test command appears to work! > > That's good to hear. Are there release plans for the SVN trunk? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Jean Delvare : PS Also, be advised that running deep discharge tests wear out your battery, so you should only run these once every three to six months (at most). Thanks for the hint. I didn't intend to use it again any time soon anyway. I presume it is essentially useful when you susp

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-10 Thread Jean Delvare
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:57:24 +0200, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Citeren Jean Delvare : > > > Now the good news: the battery test command appears to work! > > That's good to hear. > > > The test.battery.start.quick command behaves exactly as when using > > APC's own software. The battery is being tes

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Arjen de Korte : After that I couldn't issue a test.battery.start.deep command again, nothing happened when I tried. test.battery.start.quick still works though. Weird. I have no idea why that happens. I just recalled that some UPSes will refuse to run a deep discharge test when the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Jean Delvare : Now the good news: the battery test command appears to work! That's good to hear. The test.battery.start.quick command behaves exactly as when using APC's own software. The battery is being tested for a few seconds, then the UPS returns online, and ups.test.result is s

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Arjen, On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:09:58 +0200, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Citeren Jean Delvare : > > > I'm testing it now. The new driver indeed shows new commands: > > > > test.battery.start.deep - Start a deep battery test > > test.battery.start.quick - Start a quick battery test > > test.battery.s

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Jean Delvare : I'm testing it now. The new driver indeed shows new commands: test.battery.start.deep - Start a deep battery test test.battery.start.quick - Start a quick battery test test.battery.stop - Stop the battery test Good. You seem to be running the latest version from the tru

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Arjen, On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:53:58 +0200, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Citeren Jean Delvare : > > > Arnaud, Arjen, anything else I can do to help? The USB sniffer I'm > > using is a shareware and I have only 11 days of use left. If you need > > more captures, or different decoding, or any addition

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-07 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Jean Delvare : Arnaud, Arjen, anything else I can do to help? The USB sniffer I'm using is a shareware and I have only 11 days of use left. If you need more captures, or different decoding, or any additional data, please let me know quickly. Would it be difficult to implement what Charl

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-07 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Charles, On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 12:03:53 -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Oct 4, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > OK, I've given it a try, it is quite powerful, unfortunately I don't > > know much about USB so I may not be using it in the best way. > > > > Anyway, I managed to capture som

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-04 Thread Charles Lepple
On Oct 4, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Arnaud, Sorry for the long delay. On Wed, 20 May 2009 16:01:20 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: 2009/5/18 Jean Delvare The USB sniffer I am using [1] is not exactly user-friendly. I have to restart the system for every new capture (otherwise I

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-10-04 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Arnaud, Sorry for the long delay. On Wed, 20 May 2009 16:01:20 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > 2009/5/18 Jean Delvare > > The USB sniffer I am using [1] is not exactly user-friendly. I have to > > restart the system for every new capture (otherwise I am unable to > > reset the capture file), an

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-20 Thread Arnaud Quette
salut Jean, 2009/5/18 Jean Delvare > Salut Arnaud, > > On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:14:47 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > > ahah, hem, well to be serious, the game is to identify the report used > when > > doing a battery test. > > so the best would be to only fire usbsnoop when doing that, in order to

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-18 Thread Jean Delvare
Salut Arnaud, On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:14:47 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > ahah, hem, well to be serious, the game is to identify the report used when > doing a battery test. > so the best would be to only fire usbsnoop when doing that, in order to find > the frame more easily and the matching repor

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-18 Thread Arnaud Quette
salut Jean, 2009/5/17 Jean Delvare > On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:34:34 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > > 2009/5/16 Jean Delvare > > > I see the following: > > > > > > Path: UPS.Battery.Test, Type: Input, ReportID: 0x16, Offset: 0, Size: > 8, > > > Value: 6.00 > > > Path: UPS.Battery.Test, Type: Fe

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-17 Thread Jean Delvare
On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:34:34 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > 2009/5/16 Jean Delvare > > I see the following: > > > > Path: UPS.Battery.Test, Type: Input, ReportID: 0x16, Offset: 0, Size: 8, > > Value: 6.00 > > Path: UPS.Battery.Test, Type: Feature, ReportID: 0x16, Offset: 0, Size: 8, > > Value:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-16 Thread Arnaud Quette
2009/5/16 Jean Delvare > Hi Arnaud, > Jean, > On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:11:31 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > > no need ATM. just fire the driver using "usbhid-ups -D -a ..." and post > back > > the tree dumped. > > Here you go: > > debug level is '1' > upsdrv_initups... > Using subdriver: APC HID

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-16 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Arnaud, On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:11:31 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > no need ATM. just fire the driver using "usbhid-ups -D -a ..." and post back > the tree dumped. Here you go: debug level is '1' upsdrv_initups... Using subdriver: APC HID 0.93 Path: UPS.PowerSummary.iProduct, Type: Feature, Re

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-16 Thread Arnaud Quette
salut Jean, 2009/5/16 Jean Delvare > Hi Arnaud, > > Thanks for your answer. > > On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:47:34 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > > 2009/5/8 Jean Delvare > > > I use an APC Back-UPS RS 800, overall my experience with NUT is very > > > good but there is one feature I am missing: the abi

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-16 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Arnaud, Thanks for your answer. On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:47:34 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > 2009/5/8 Jean Delvare > > I use an APC Back-UPS RS 800, overall my experience with NUT is very > > good but there is one feature I am missing: the ability to ask the UPS > > for a battery test. upscmd -

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-15 Thread Arnaud Quette
salut Jean, 2009/5/8 Jean Delvare > Hi all, > > I use an APC Back-UPS RS 800, overall my experience with NUT is very > good but there is one feature I am missing: the ability to ask the UPS > for a battery test. upscmd -l shows the following commands available: > > $ upscmd -l rs800 > Instant co

[Nut-upsuser] Battery test feature of APC Back-UPS RS series

2009-05-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi all, I use an APC Back-UPS RS 800, overall my experience with NUT is very good but there is one feature I am missing: the ability to ask the UPS for a battery test. upscmd -l shows the following commands available: $ upscmd -l rs800 Instant commands supported on UPS [rs800]: beeper.disable -