Re: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Dear Gary, NUT 2.0.3 is an ancient version. CPS support was added to newhidups much later. -- Peter P.S. please keep list traffic on the mailing list. Thanks! Gary Redden wrote: You wrote the following on the NUT-upsuser mailing list To check if your device's USB interface is supported,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-17 Thread Doug Reynolds
Peter Selinger wrote: I wanted to mention that some of Cyberpower UPS use a USB to Serial bridge; I am not sure that the GS upses implement this method or not. If it has a serial port, try using the new 'powerpanel' driver (which I believe is in the new 2.0.5-pre2 release, and in the trunk).

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Selinger
No, the Cyberpower 685AVR is supported by newhidups, at least partially. It is not a USB-to-serial model. See Scott Alfter's post to nut-upsdev on 30 Oct 2005 21:13:18 -0800. I am not sure if the shutdown commands are working yet; some further testing from Gary might be useful here. -- Peter

RE: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-05 Thread Kory Hamzeh
an easy way to test it is: open your serial port to your ups with cu (ie cu -s 2400 -l /dev/serialdevicename) once it is opened, hit enter (a couple times if needed). if you see a #2, type in P4enter, and post back the info it returns. I haven't been ignoring this request. I can't seem

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-02 Thread Doug Reynolds
Kory Hamzeh wrote: We are interested in using Nut on our Federa 6.0 servers. However, our UPS systems are sold under the name Geek Squad (sold through the Best Buy chain of department stores). I'm pretty certain Geek Squad does not manufacture these units and they just rebrand them. Does anyone

RE: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-02 Thread Kory Hamzeh
an easy way to test it is: open your serial port to your ups with cu (ie cu -s 2400 -l /dev/serialdevicename) once it is opened, hit enter (a couple times if needed). if you see a #2, type in P4enter, and post back the info it returns. Doug, Thanks for the info. I will give it a try.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-02 Thread Arjen de Korte
Kory Hamzeh wrote: Thanks for the info. I will give it a try. It has both a USB and a serial port. Eventually, I'd like to use the USB interface instead of the serial. We have not tested the USB connection, but based on other drivers, this likely is not going to work. Unless the serial-to-USB