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--></style></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Jim,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Yes both UPS are on the same machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I moved away from Ubuntu and tried with Kali and got a slightly different issue as the driver even doesn’t start properly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I used the standard apt-get command to download nut and added libusb-dev which wasn’t by default on kali.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I went to Kali nut web page and downloaded all packages </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>😊</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>hiddev0 and hiddev1 have been created in /dev/usb and changed the group to nut as they’ve been created with root group.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I have attached the lsusb traces for the 2 UPS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>When starting the driver I got this message<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>$ sudo upsdrvctl start</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.8.0</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.47 (2.8.0)</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.43</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>interrupt pipe disabled (add 'pollonly' flag to 'ups.conf' to get rid of this message)</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>libusb1: Could not open any HID devices: insufficient permissions on everything</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>No matching HID UPS found</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US>Driver failed to start (exit status=1)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=p1><span class=s1><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=p1><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks for your help and guidance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Laurent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>De : </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut@gmail.com><br><b>Date : </b>lundi 20 février 2023 à 13:43<br><b>À : </b>nut-upsuser Mailing List <nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org><br><b>Cc : </b>"laurenttaieb@free.fr" <laurenttaieb@free.fr><br><b>Objet : </b>Re: [Nut-upsuser] Issue with two UPS APC managed from a single PC.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is that with both UPSes on same machine?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A quick guess would be that insufficient data points to identify the device are configured (vendorid, productid, serial...) in ups.conf, so both drivers connect to the first match. I'd expect them to conflict and one would die or both loop reconnecting, if both are running at once, though.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Also, which NUT version? Custom build from GitHub or an (older?) distro package?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jim<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 12:28 Manuel Wolfshant via Nut-upsuser <<a href="mailto:nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net">nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>On February 20, 2023 12:01:46 PM GMT+02:00, Laurent Taieb via Nut-upsuser <<a href="mailto:nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net" target="_blank">nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> wrote:<br>>Hi mailing list,<br>>I looked at all FAQ and docs and can’t find a solution.<br>>I installed but on both Kali Linux and Ubuntu.<br>>(For comparison purposes)<br>>I’m trying to connect and monitor two UPS APC via usb.<br>>One is a back-ups bx1400 which I can see via via upsc.<br>>The second one is a more recent one smc 1500ic which when I poke it via upsc returns the data of the bx1400 one.<br>>I tried by changing port and other tricks but no success.<br>>Would anyone have a clue of what the issue could be ?<br><br>Hello<br><br>Can you please share the configuration you have used, as well as the output of lsusb ?<br><br>wolfy<br><br><br>>Thanks <br>><br>>Laurent <br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Nut-upsuser mailing list<br>><a href="mailto:Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net" target="_blank">Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net</a><br>><a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser" target="_blank">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nut-upsuser mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net" target="_blank">Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net</a><br><a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser" target="_blank">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>