[Nut-upsdev] Best driver for MGE Pulsar Evolution 1100

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Carlos,

2005/10/26, Carlos Rodrigues <carlos.efr at mail.telepac.pt>:
>
> I have an MGE Pulsar Evolution 1100 connected to a Debian box, with
> nut-2.0.1 (the standard "sarge" packages). I have it connected through
> USB, and I'm using newhidups.
>
> However, about once a day the driver looses contact with the UPS and I
> have to restart NUT to get it to drop the "data stale" nonsense (it
> happens more often than this, but most times it recovers without user
> intervention).


this problem is the "well known" (TM) EMI disconnexion problem I've solved
in 2.0.2. Note that I've made a proposed-update for sarge, but it won't
solve your pb. Only a backport of the last package I've uploaded (2.0.2-2,
uploaded on 2005-10-19)

If you need help, please tell me back as I've not yet had time to setup back
my personal pool on d.o/~aquette/

Since this model is supported by mge-utalk, mge-shut and newhidups,



FYI:
- mge-utalk is for the legacy ASCII protocol
- mge-shut is for the new binary SHUT protocol (Serial HID UPS Transfer),
which is only the same HID data as on the USB bus, but marshalled on a
serial line
- newhidups...

So, the best is between mge-shut and newhidups, knowing that the former will
be merged in the latter one day.

I'm wondering which is the best one to use with this particular model
> (I remember having it connected to another box, using nut 1.4.1 and
> mge-utalk, and something like this used to happen too, with the
> difference that most of the data stopped appearing in the "upsc
> ups at localhost" listing, but it could still see the power status -
> on-battery, etc.).
>

Yep, I've got to check mge-utalk. Seems there has been a huge regression
between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (a bug is logged on alioth).

thanks for the feedback,
Arnaud Quette
--
Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
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OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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