[Nut-upsdev] Re: newhidups and APC Back-UPS CS 350

[Thomas Jarosch]

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 10:21, arnaud.quette at mgeups.com wrote:
> > I'm currently try to get newhidups running with
> > the newhidups driver from nut 2.0.2.
> >
> > After some USB issues (usb_claim_interface() works only as root so far)
> > newhidups is recognizing the device. Though it doesn't detect any state
> > changes, meaning when I run the battery test mode it's not recognized.
>
> as Charles said, the privileges problem need the hotplug scripts:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2005-August/000110.htm
>l

Thanks (Charles), will try that. 

> > Are nightly snapshots available somewhere?
> > I wanted to try with CVS HEAD before I start tinkering around the code...
>
> sadly, no.
> Charles: can you make a tarball and put it somewhere for people to test?

Guess 2.0.3 is not based on HEAD, but on the "stable" branch.

Any idea why newhidups might miss the ("on battery") events from the UPS?

Thomas