[Nut-upsdev] Re: CyberPower 685AVR and newhidups

[Peter Selinger]

Scott,

please run newhidups as root, *and also* with the "-u root" option, or
else you won't be able to connect to the UPS. (The driver normally
drops root privileges unless you give "-u root").

-- Peter

Arnaud Quette wrote:
> 2005/10/20, Scott Alfter <scott at alfter.us>:
> >
> > Arnaud Quette wrote:
> > > try using newhidups if possible as it will replace hidups.
> > > the best is to retrieve the development cvs, call newhidups
> > > in debug level 2 (ie "newhidups -DDDDD auto") and send back
> > > the tree dumped to add support for these models.
> >
> > It took a bit more work to cobble together a live-CVS ebuild (as it was, =
> I
> > had
> > to modify an older ebuild to pull v2.0.2), but once I did, I got this
> > result:
> >
> > Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.1.0)
> >
> > debug level is '5'
> > Checking device (0000/0000) (002/001)
> > - - VendorID: 0000
> > - - ProductID: 0000
> > - - Manufacturer: unknown
> > - - Product: unknown
> > - - Serial Number: unknown
> > - - Bus: 002
> > Trying to match device
> > Device does not match - skipping
> > Checking device (0764/0501) (001/002)
> > - - VendorID: 0764
> > - - ProductID: 0501
> > - - Manufacturer: unknown
> > - - Product: unknown
> > - - Serial Number: unknown
> > - - Bus: 001
> > Trying to match device
> > Device does not match - skipping
> > Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001)
> > - - VendorID: 0000
> > - - ProductID: 0000
> > - - Manufacturer: unknown
> > - - Product: unknown
> > - - Serial Number: unknown
> > - - Bus: 001
> > Trying to match device
> > Device does not match - skipping
> > No appropriate HID device found
> > No matching USB/HID UPS found
> >
> > lsusb lists the following (the UPS is the only USB device connected):
> >
> > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc.
> > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> >
> > Scott Alfter
> > scott at alfter.us