[Nut-upsdev] Belkin F6C900-UNV and the megatec driver

[Carlos Rodrigues]

On 3/10/07, Christian Monkman <c.b.monkman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using Minicom on the serial port the UPS is connected to set to
> 2400-8-N-1 and sending the characters Q1<cr> produces this output when
> utility is connected:
> (122.5 122.8 122.5 007 59.9 27.6 N/.A 00001001
>
> And this output immediately after the unit is unplugged from the wall:
> (122.5 122.8 122.5 008 59.9 27.4 N/.A 10001001
>
> During the 10 second test, a Q1 returns this:
> (122.8 122.8 122.8 009 59.9 27.5 N/.A 00001101
>
> I think the stumbling block I have run into is that this UPS sends the
> characters "N/.A" where the temperature digits are expected, and the
> driver doesn't see the 8 status bits that follow.

That's a violation to the megatec protocol, and that seems to be the
cause of the problem.

I've added a fix in the development version of NUT, you can pullit
from directly fro NUT's SVN repository.

-- 
Carlos Rodrigues