[Nut-upsdev] Fwd: RE New xanto driver for NUT

[Carlos Rodrigues]

Hmm, I searched my mail archives and found that thread. The absense of
the "F" command does pose some problems, but I'm open to suggestions.

The "F" command is used on the detection routines (because it is
required afterwards, read on), and to find out the UPS ratings. If
there is another command that ouputs those values, it can be used
instead (testing for the proper results from "F" and if that fails
trying that other command). As long as the necessary stuff can be
obtained, it really doesn't matter how we do it.

On 5/12/06, Andreas Thienemann <andreas at bawue.net> wrote:
> Hello Carlos,
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
>
> > That's the "megatec" protocol. The appropriate course of action should
> > be to modify the "megatec" driver to support those models:
> Last time we talked about it, we thought that the megatec driver would
> need too many hacks in order to support the Xantos Models from Online-USV
> and thus we should go with a seperate driver.
> However, due to lack of time I couldn't work on the driver in the
> meantime.
>
> The problem is, while the Online USV devices do talk something very
> similar to the megatec protocol, especially the status output of the UPS,
> there are some differences in the protocol.
>
> bye,
>  andreas
>


-- 
Carlos Rodrigues