[Nut-upsdev] Maruson power net 1500 support?

[Alexander I. Gordeev]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:34:13 +0400, Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org> wrote:

>> [snip]
>>> Q1 detail: (14 bytes) => 28 31 31 33 2e 39 20 31 30 30 31 30 30 30
>> [snip]
>>
>> Good so far!
>>
>> If you print these numbers as ASCII text you'll get:
>> "(113.9 1001000"
>> This looks like some weird megatec protocol variation.
>
> This isn't the megatec protocol, but apparently something that uses the
> same Q1 command. That really sucks, since we already have UPSes with
> identical VID:PID that do speak megatec. Maruson probably purchased the
> same serial-to-USB converter from Phoenixtech. Aaargh!
>
>> Things to try out:
>> - get the latest SVN trunk and try 'agiler_old', 'agiler', 'phoenix'
>>   subdrivers and report back the results
>
> I sincerely doubt that this will have the desired effect. The device seems
> to be quite consistent in what it reports, so I suspect this is all the
> information it provides and that this is not due to characters being lost.
>

Sure this is not going to work but maybe there is a chance...

>> - if the trunk doesn't work any better it could be helpful to sniff
>>   USB traffic while using supplied Windows driver
>
> That is always useful for new devices!
>
> Best regards, Arjen

I agree with all statements :)

-- 
  Alexander