[Nut-upsdev] Using USB CyberPower CPL550SL / AE550,

[Peter Selinger]

Hi Greg,

the battery runtime is computed by the device firmware. 80 minutes
sounds like a lot, but there's no guarantee that it's accurate. 

-- Peter

Greg Grotsky wrote:
> 
> Thanks Peter, Charles Lepple repsonded this morning and I got it all sorted
> out. I believe it's working now, I can execute "upsc myups" and it spits out
> all sorts of cool info. I have a question though: Does "battery.runtime" get
> calculated based on the current load or is it just something that the
> manufacturer sets in the firmware for the model? I ask because the value I
> currently have for battery.runtime is 4800 and from what I read that is in
> seconds. I'm basically running just a computer (no monitor) from the ports
> on this thing, does 80 minutes of runtime sound right?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Greg
> 
> 
> On 2/7/07, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:
> >
> > From the file INSTALL:
> >
> >    The setup for USB ports is slightly more complicated. Device files
> >    for USB devices, such as /proc/bus/usb/002/001, are usually
> >    created "on the fly" when a device is plugged in, and disappear
> >    when the device is disconnected.  Moreover, the names of these
> >    device files can change randomly. To set up the correct
> >    permissions for the USB device, you may need to set up (operating
> >    system dependent) hotplugging scripts.  Sample scripts and
> >    information are provided in the scripts/hotplug and
> >    scripts/udev directories. (If you want to try if a driver
> >    works without setting up hotplugging, you can add the "-u root"
> >    option to upsd, upsmon, and drivers; this should allow you to
> >    follow the below instructions. However, don't forget to set up the
> >    correct permissions later!).
> >
> > -- Peter
> >
> > Greg Grotsky wrote:
> > >
> > > So I just bought one of these fabulous CyberPower UPS devices from
> > BestBuy
> > > hoping I could control it with my machine.  Luckily, I found NUT!  I've
> > got
> > > the SVN sources and compiled and installed them but I haven't been able
> > to
> > > get it to recognize the usb AE550.
> > >
> > > When I plug the usb cable in I see this in syslog:
> > > Feb  6 22:36:56 mythbox kernel: usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using
> > > ohci_hcd and address 4
> > > Feb  6 22:36:56 mythbox kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1
> > > choice
> > > Feb  6 22:36:56 mythbox kernel: hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [CPS UPS
> > > AE550] on usb-0000:00:02.0-1
> > >
> > > I run lsusb and I see this:
> > > $ lsusb
> > > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc.
> > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 15c2:ffda SoundGraph Inc.
> > > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > >
> > > My /usr/local/ups/etc/ups.conf file contains
> > > [CyberPower]
> > >  driver = usbhid-ups
> > >  port = auto
> > > # vendor = "Cyber Power Systems"
> > > # product = "AE550"
> > > # vendorid = 0764
> > > # productid = 0501
> > >  desc = "MythBox"
> > >
> > > When I run upsdrvctl start I get this:
> > > $ ./upsdrvctl start
> > > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.1.0
> > > Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.1.0
> > )
> > >
> > > No matching HID UPS found
> > > Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
> > >
> > >
> > > I have tried everything in attempt to get this recognized.  As you can
> > see
> > > in my conf file I tried supplying the values I recieved in lsusb and the
> > > vendor and product names.  I've tried doing that at the command line as
> > well
> > > running usbhid-ups -x vendor=CyberPower.  I've also tried supplying
> > > usbhid-ups with the device name /dev/usb/hiddev0 or /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00
> > or
> > > /dev/usbdev1.4_ep81 (not sure what these are but I think they all
> > represent
> > > the ups).  I've created a user for the software to use and set the
> > > permissions correctly.  What am I missing??
> > >
> > > BTW: I'm running 64bit version of Debian.  I didn't have any problems
> > with
> > > the compile or install.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Greg