[Nut-upsdev] REGRESSION: New "megatec" driver does't work for UPS that was managed by old fentonups driver

[Arjen de Korte]

> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Michel Bouissou
> <michel-nut at bouissou.net> wrote:
>> debug level is '3'
>> Starting UPS detection process...
>> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
>> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
>> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
>> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
>> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
>> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
>> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
>> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
>> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
>> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
>> 5 out of 5 detection attempts failed (minimum failures: 2).
>> Megatec protocol UPS not detected.
>
> The UPS doesn't seem to be sending anything back...

Indeed. But Michel reported success with the old 'fentonups' driver that
uses the 'I' command to detect a UPS and not 'Q1' like 'megatec' does.
Maybe the Alpha 500 iC UPS requires that you first send it an 'I' command
before is starts answering the 'Q1' command.

Best regards, Arjen
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