[Nut-upsdev] Sweex 1000VA UPS (Lakeview Research)

[Charles Lepple]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Tom Cassimon <tom at cassimon.mine.nu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i've read a thread about this UPS from Peter van Valderen. He tried to
> develop a
> driver for this specific type of UPS. I've downloaded nut-2.2.2 and tried to
> apply
> the patches (lakeview.patch & lakeview.v2.patch) but both resulted in
> rejected
> chunks. I've tried to ./configure with type lakeview and then a make, but
> the make
> command fails.

Can you please point us to the patches you are looking at?

> Does anybody has any experience with getting this type of UPS working with
> nut?
>
> In the latest version of nut I don't find any reference to this lakeview
> driver.

Lakeview Research probably refers to Jan Axelson's consultancy. She
has written at least one book on USB device and driver development,
and the UPS in question may have used the USB Vendor ID for Lakeview
Research.

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- Charles Lepple