[Nut-upsdev] Centralion Blazer 2000VA USB-HID

[Peter Selinger]

Guillaume,

first, you may want to update your trunk. The newhidups driver was
renamed usbhid-ups, and the -x generic option was renamed -x explore
in the last few months.

Also, your device is a "USB to Serial" device, and is not supported by
newhidups/usbhid-ups (I think Kjell already mentioned this to you in
April 2006).

Your device looks similar to the Mustek Powermust 600USB (06DA/0003)
OMRON/87XXUPS that was reported by Carlos on nut-upsdev on Apr 14, 2006. 
It is therefore possible that it can be supported by the new
megatec_usb driver. This driver is still under development. To get it,
you need to check out at least revision 823 of the SVN trunk. 
Some tweaking will probably be necessary to get it to talk to your
device. 

-- Peter

Guillaume JAOUEN wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I've succeeded in compiling the svn trunk with the automake tools and wish
> to say thank you to Charles Lepple for his help.
> 
> After fixing some parameters in the hotplug script I can now get access to
> the UPS on /dev/usb/hiddev0 (I added productid and vendorid of my ups to the
> usermap).
> 
> I've decided to try the newhidups driver with -x generic parameter and got
> this response :
> 
> ./newhidups -DDDDD -u nut -x generic -x vendorid=0665 auto
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.1.0)
> 
> debug level is '5'
> Checking device (0665/5161) (003/004)
> - VendorID: 0665
> - ProductID: 5161
> - Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
> - Product: USB to Serial
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 003
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 27)
> Report descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 27)
> Found HID device
> Report Descriptor size = 27
> Report Descriptor: (200 bytes) => 06 00 FF 09 01 A1 01 09 02 15 00 26 FF 00
> 75 08
> Detected a UPS: Cypress Semiconductor/USB to Serial
> Using subdriver: GENERIC HID 0.1
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up ff000002
> entering string_to_path()
> parsing ff000001
> Looking up ff000001
> parsing ff000002
> Looking up ff000002
> Path depth = 2
> 0: UPage(ff00), Usage(1)
> 1: UPage(ff00), Usage(2)
> Can't find object ff000001.ff000002
> Path: ff000001.ff000002, Type: Input
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up ff000002
> entering string_to_path()
> parsing ff000001
> Looking up ff000001
> parsing ff000002
> Looking up ff000002
> Path depth = 2
> 0: UPage(ff00), Usage(1)
> 1: UPage(ff00), Usage(2)
> Can't find object ff000001.ff000002
> Path: ff000001.ff000002, Type: Output
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> Looking up ff000001
> Looking up 00000000
> entering identify_ups(0x0665, 0x5161)
> 
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> dstate_init: sock /var/state/ups/newhidups-auto open on fd 5
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> 
> I've launched upsdrvctl and get this reply :
> 
> ./upsdrvctl start
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.1.0
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.1.0)
> 
> Detected a UPS: Cypress Semiconductor/USB to Serial
> Using subdriver: GENERIC HID 0.1
> 
> Then upsd :
> 
> ./upsd
> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.1.0
> Connected to UPS [blazer2000usb]: blazer2000usb
> Synchronizing...done
> 
> But when I try to check status data I get this response :
> 
> ./upsc blazer2000usb at localhost ups.status
> Error: Variable not supported by UPS
> 
> And if I try to get other data I got this response :
> 
> ./upsc blazer2000usb at localhost
> driver.flag.generic: enabled
> driver.name: newhidups
> driver.parameter.port: auto
> driver.parameter.vendorid: 0665
> driver.version: 2.1.0
> driver.version.data: GENERIC HID 0.1
> driver.version.internal: 0.28
> ups.mfr: Cypress Semiconductor
> ups.model: USB to Serial
> 
> Our last mails about the centralion Blazer 2000 USB let me thought that this
> UPS may use Megatec protocol.
> 
> As Centralion engineer told me that the UPS just send serial output over USB
> port, I wonder if it's possible to link newhidups driver with a sort of
> megatec subdriver ???
> 
> I try hidups driver without success :
> 
> ./hidups -DDDDD -u nut /dev/usb/hiddev0
> Network UPS Tools: HID UPS driver 0.13 (2.1.0)
> 
> Warning: This is an experimental driver.
> Some features may not function correctly.
> 
> debug level is '5'
> hiddev path open /dev/usb/hiddev0: No such device
> 
> I notice progress because I can now get an hiddev0 link with the ups but it
> seem that there's no driver for this sort of UPS.
> 
> What is needed in order to help NUT project to support Centralion USB UPS ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Guillaume JAOUEN.
>