[Nut-upsdev] serial/USB-over-HID layer for fentonups

[Pierre-Yves AILLET]

Selon Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:

> On 10/5/05, Pierre-Yves AILLET <pierreyves.aillet at free.fr> wrote:
> > Selon Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Technically, this isn't a HID UPS, it's just a serial UPS with a silly
> > > USB-to-serial converter in front of it.
> [...]
>
> > So, my question is, could this be the same UDB-HID to RS232 Interface but
> using
> > the same protocol as in fentonups ?
>
> More than likely. I hadn't looked at energizerups before you mentioned this.
>
> Ideally, fentonups would work like this:
>
> [core fentonups code] <--+--> [serial code]
>                          |
>                          +--> [USB-to-serial code]
>
> and the USB-to-serial code could be shared by other UPS drivers such
> as fentonups, as needed.
>
> --
> - Charles Lepple
>
That would really be the clean way of doing it, as said on
http://www.vttoth.com/ER-OF800.htm

It's from ST Microelectronic and I think more than one manufacturer and the
facts say so, could use this interface.

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