> I am not using APC :-( > By the way, what is APC? > If its one of those UPS companies then am definitely not using it... > Mine is a "merge"(thats what the sticker says) > Its from Wipro! > If APC means some technology in UPS then i will have to dig deeper :) > > But on the surface,are there no scripts that have all these info in it?
Dude, Is your UPS connected to your system via USB at all ? That is the only way for the Host OS to figure out the UPS status. Search your vendor's site and see if they have a driver available already (Doh ! Solaris ? What is that ?). If not read the libusb documentation - it is a relatively trivial matter to write a ugen / libusb userland driver and read() from the ifin/ifout/cntrl interfaces. The tough part is to reverse engineer which interface, how many bytes, which bytes and what those bytes mean without any documentation. Start experimenting now: Switch on AC power, Read a few bytes, dump the values Turn off AC power, Read the same bytes, dump the values See which bytes change - Probably "bit" - this is your charge / discharge flag. To find out the residual charge on the UPS, switch off AC power and write a program which prints the bytes you read in a loop. And then see which bytes seem to be decreasing. If your UPS does something stupid like encoding these values in BCD, you will spend a little more time along the way cursing the damn manufacturer for being such a git. Ananth
