[Nut-upsdev] newhidups with APC Smart-UPS 1500

[Felix Mühlbauer]

Hello,

I'm using the stable amd64 port of Debian Linux. I installed (the 
latest) nut-2.0.1-4 and nut-usb packages for utilizing an APC Smart-UPS 
1500 USB. I tried "apcupsd" first but "nut" makes an even more 
sophisticated impression on me and has more security options.

I had problems with the newhidups driver. It didn't find a device with 
matching VendorID. And hidups crashed.
So I compiled newhidups from latest stable source.

now I get the following debug messages:

/var/lib/nut/newhidups -DDD auto
Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.4)

debug level is '3'

...
Checking device (051D/0002) (001/004)
- VendorID: 051d
- ProductID: 0002
- Manufacturer: American Power Conversion
- Product: Smart-UPS 1500 RM FW:617.3.I USB FW:1.5
- Serial Number: AS0341111860
- Bus: 001
Trying to match device
Device matches
HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 61939)
Size read for the report descriptor: 4294967274
Unable to get Report descriptor (-22)
...

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The report descriptor size is obviously wrong. Maybe there is a problem 
with the 64bit port?? For getting information the same function 
usb_control_msg is used so the error should be somewhere deeper.
Also I didn't find out what error code -22 means..

Has anyone some advices?

regards,
  Felix