[Nut-upsdev] Re: your Tripp-Lite AVR550U

[Peter Selinger]

Hi Patrick,

I didn't get further bug reports from you, so I have now listed your
device as "supported" by newhidups. Last I saw as of your below
message, the driver was working as expected. If there are any future
problems, let me know! -- Peter

Patrick Nolan wrote:
> 
> Remember me?  Back in May we exchanged some messages about my Tripp-Lite
> UPS.  My boss has gone on vacation, so I finally got a chance to take a
> look at this.
> 
> Peter Selinger wrote:
> > Patrick Nolan wrote:
> >> Peter Selinger wrote:
> >>> Hi Patrick,
> >>>
> >>> in February, you tried to post the below message to the nut-upsuser
> >>> list, but the post was rejected because you were not subscribed to the
> >>> list. Unfortunately, you did not subscribe and re-post it.
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, I have been working on Tripp-Lite support for newhidups
> >>> recently, and I wonder if you have any feedback. Did you ever get this
> >>> device to work?
> >> It works ok under the old hidups driver.
> >> The only annoyance is that when the machine is rebooted, the ownership
> >> of /dev/hiddev1 reverts to root.  I never got around to making an
> >> automatic process to make sure which device it gets attached to
> >> (although it always seems to be hiddev1).  I could do that and put
> >> it into the startup script, but so far I have been checking and
> >> changing the ownership by hand.
> > 
> > Right. This is perhaps a matter of setting up the correct hotplugging
> > scripts, but I am not sure how to do it for the /dev/hiddev interface.
> > In any case, the old hidups driver will be discontinued soon, and is
> > not actively supported any more.
> > 
> >>> >From the information you sent, it looks like it quite might be a
> >>> proper HID power class device (not serial-over-usb). If you could run
> >>> (as root)
> >>>
> >>>  newhidups -u root -DD -x generic -x vendorid=09ae auto
> >>>
> >> My version of newhidups doesn't accept the -x generic argument.
> > 
> > Drats, you're right. I though this feature was in 2.0.3, but actually
> > it was introduced afterwards. If you get the current development
> > sources from SVN, you would be able to run this. In any case, you
> > would need the newest version for Tripp Lite support.
> > 
> >> newhidups -u root -DD -x vendorid=09ae auto gives
> >>
> >> Checking device (09AE/1003) (002/003)
> >> - VendorID: 09ae
> >> - ProductID: 1003
> >> - Manufacturer: Tripp Lite
> >> - Product: TRIPP LITE UPS
> >> - Serial Number: 692186 A
> >> - Bus: 002
> >> Trying to match device
> >> Device does not match - skipping
> >>
> >> I don't know if this will help you.
> > 
> > Not very much, unfortunately. 
> > 
> > In case you feel like experimenting with this, I am attaching a patch
> > that *might* enable this device to be supported by the newhidups
> > driver, when applied to the current development version from the SVN
> > repository. Some fine-tuning will probably be required, for which the
> > output of "newhidups -u root -DD -x generic -x vendorid=09ae auto"
> > would still be useful. 
> > 
> > -- Peter
> 
> OK.  I downloaded the latest development version and added your patch.
> Here's what comes out.  It seems to go into an infinite loop on the
> notifications.
> 
> 
> $ sudo ./newhidups -u root -DD -x generic -x vendorid=09ae auto
> Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.1.0)
> 
> debug level is '2'
> Checking device (09AE/1003) (002/003)
> - VendorID: 09ae
> - ProductID: 1003
> - Manufacturer: Tripp Lite
> - Product: TRIPP LITE UPS
> - Serial Number: 692186 A
> - Bus: 002
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 459)
> Report descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 459)
> Found HID device
> Report Descriptor size = 459
> Detected a UPS: Tripp Lite /TRIPP LITE UPS
> Using subdriver: GENERIC HID 0.1
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.iProduct, Type: Feature, Value: 1.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.iSerialNumber, Type: Feature, Value: 2.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.iManufacturer, Type: Feature, Value: 3.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.Input.ConfigVoltage, Type: Feature, Value: 120.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.AudibleAlarmControl, Type: Feature, Value: 2.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.iDeviceChemistry, Type: Feature, Value: 24.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.CapacityMode, Type: Feature, Value: 2.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacity, Type: Input, Value: 100.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacity, Type: Feature, Value: 100.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.FullChargeCapacity, Type: Feature, Value: 100.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ShutdownImminent, Type: Input, 
> Value: 0.000000
> Can't find object UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.008400d0
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.008400d0, Type: Input
> Can't find object UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigActivePower
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigActivePower, Type: Input
> Can't find object UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigPercentLoad
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigPercentLoad, Type: Input
> Can't find object UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.0084004b
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.0084004b, Type: Input
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ShutdownImminent, Type: Feature, 
> Value: 0.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ACPresent, Type: Feature, Value: 
> 1.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.Charging, Type: Feature, Value: 
> 1.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.Discharging, Type: Feature, Value: 
> 0.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.NeedReplacement, Type: Feature, 
> Value: 0.000000
> Path: UPS.BatterySystem.Battery.ConfigVoltage, Type: Feature, Value: 
> 12.000000
> Path: UPS.BatterySystem.Battery.PresentStatus.Charging, Type: Feature, 
> Value: 1.000000
> Path: UPS.BatterySystem.Battery.PresentStatus.Discharging, Type: 
> Feature, Value: 0.000000
> Path: UPS.BatterySystem.Battery.PresentStatus.NeedReplacement, Type: 
> Feature, Value: 0.000000
> Path: UPS.BatterySystem.Test, Type: Feature, Value: 0.000000
> Path: UPS.Flow.ConfigVoltage, Type: Feature, Value: 120.000000
> Path: UPS.Flow.ConfigFrequency, Type: Feature, Value: 60.000000
> Path: UPS.Flow.ConfigApparentPower, Type: Feature, Value: 550.000000
> Path: UPS.OutletSystem.Outlet.DelayBeforeShutdown, Type: Feature, Value: 
> 65535.000000
> Path: UPS.OutletSystem.Outlet.ffff0091, Type: Feature, Value: 0.000000
> Path: UPS.OutletSystem.Outlet.ffff0092, Type: Feature, Value: 0.000000
> Path: UPS.OutletSystem.Outlet.ffff00c7, Type: Feature, Value: 1.000000
> Path: UPS.ffff0010.00ff0001.ffff007d, Type: Feature, Value: 4099.000000
> Path: UPS.ffff0015.00ff0001.ffff00c0, Type: Feature, Value: 255.000000
> Path: UPS.ffff0015.00ff0001.ffff00d2, Type: Feature, Value: 255.000000
> Path: UPS.ffff0015.00ff0001.ffff00c1, Type: Feature, Value: 255.000000
> Path: UPS.ffff0015.00ff0001.ffff00c2, Type: Feature, Value: 255.000000
> Path: UPS.ffff0015.00ff0001.ffff00c3, Type: Feature, Value: 255.000000
> Path: UPS.ffff0015.00ff0001.ffff00c5, Type: Feature, Value: 2.000000
> Can't retrieve Report 154 (-32/32): Broken pipe
> Path: UPS.ffff0015.00ff0001.ffff00c4, Type: Feature
> entering identify_ups(0x09ae, 0x1003)
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> dstate_init: sock /var/state/ups/newhidups-auto open on fd 5
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 1 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacity
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 5 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.0084004b
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigPercentLoad
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigActivePower
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.008400d0
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ShutdownImminent
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 1 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacity
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 5 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.0084004b
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigPercentLoad
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigActivePower
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.008400d0
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ShutdownImminent
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 1 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacity
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 5 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.0084004b
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigPercentLoad
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigActivePower
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.008400d0
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ShutdownImminent
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 1 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacity
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> 
> =>Got 5 HID Objects...
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.0084004b
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigPercentLoad
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ConfigActivePower
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.008400d0
> 
> find_hid_info: unknown variable: 
> UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ShutdownImminent
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
>