[Nut-upsdev] Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex 625L USB version

[Peter Selinger]

Hi Jon,

congratulations on your progress. Could you post your code? This would
also be useful to Alex; hopefully the driver will reach a state where
it works for all devices at the same time.

I will start a branch on SVN for this driver. Once it looks reasonably
stable, it can be added to the trunk.

-- Peter

Jon Gough wrote:
> 
> Peter,
>     I have now got the megatec_usb working and talking to upsd. The 
> upsc command gives
> 
> battery.charge: 95.0
> battery.voltage: 27.00
> battery.voltage.nominal: 24.0
> driver.name: megatec_usb
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: auto
> driver.version: 2.1.0
> driver.version.internal: 1.5
> input.frequency: 50.0
> input.voltage: 248.0
> input.voltage.fault: 140.0
> input.voltage.maximum: 248.0
> input.voltage.minimum: 246.5
> output.voltage: 248.0
> output.voltage.nominal: 240.0
> ups.beeper.status: disabled
> ups.delay.shutdown: 0
> ups.delay.start: 2
> ups.load: 11.0
> ups.mfr: UIS AblerexAble
> ups.model: ex USB Int rface 049e
> ups.serial: unknown
> ups.status: OL
> ups.temperature: 25.0
> 
> I know the 'mfr' and 'model' fields are wrong. I may look at that next.
> I have implemented the following commands.
> Q1      Status Inquiry
> Q       Turn on/off beep  (not sure this is working correctly)
> C       Cancel shutdown command
> T       10 second test
> I       UPS Information Command (still needs work)
> F       UPS Rating Information
> 
> Regards
>     Jon
> 
> At 13:15 1/02/2007, Peter Selinger wrote:
> >Jon Gough wrote:
> > >
> > > Carlos,
> > >     I have implemented that and it works.
> > >
> > >     What I want to do is run the T<n>  command to have it test for a
> > > different length of time than the standard 10 secs. If I can get this
> > > to work then I can send other commands to setup the UPS correctly, ie
> > > wait 10 mins after loss of power before shutting servers down, but
> > > make sure there is 2 mins of power left to allow for shut down to occur.
> >
> >I don't think that kind of functionality belongs in the driver. The
> >driver should limit itself to reading information and sending commands
> >to the UPS. Decisions about when and how to shut down should be left
> >to upsmon, which does it uniformly for all drivers.
> >
> >-- Peter
> 
> 
> 
> 
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