[Nut-upsdev] Megatec_usb driver

[Alexander I. Gordeev]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:13:08PM +0400, Dmitry Bely wrote:
> Trying to use it with Sven Smart RM2000 (seems to be an OEM clone of
> Sysgration Smart RM UPS: http://www.sysgration.com/product.asp?KID=7).
> 
> I have just compiled the latest svn trunk. Unfortunately it does not
> work with that UPS:
> 
> dbely at vserver1:~/nut-svn$ sudo /usr/local/ups/bin/megatec_usb -u root -a myups
> Network UPS Tools 2.1.0 - Megatec protocol driver 1.5.3 [megatec_usb]
> Carlos Rodrigues (c) 2003-2007
> 
> Serial-over-USB transport layer for Megatec protocol driver [megatec_usb]
> 
> Megatec protocol UPS detected [SVEN POWER Smart2U 2K Ver 1.1].
> This UPS has an unsupported combination of battery voltage/number of batteries.
> Cannot calculate charge percentage for this UPS.
> 

No, this is not an error! It's ok, you just need to gather some
information about your UPS. I think, it was discussed several times on
the dev list. Look for example this thread:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2007-May/001993.html

> If I enable debugging it loops forever:
> 
[snip]
> 

It just polls the device periodically to get the current UPS status.

> Any idea how to fix this?
> 
> - Dmitry Bely
> 

There is nothing to fix.

--
  Alexander