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

[Michel Bouissou]

Le mardi 20 mai 2008, Arjen de Korte a écrit :
>
> No, you don't get the point.
> Like I explained, what you're doing now (or with any other scheme that is
> based on battery voltage alone) may seem to work now, but may (will) fail
> horribly [...]
> In NUT we have 'upssched' for situations where the grace period after ...

Okay, now I get the point. Your best avice is that, as battery voltage does 
not always relate closely enough to battery charge per your opinion, I would 
have better use an external timer/scheduler that does not relate AT ALL to 
battery charge.

Of course this method is simpler because it needs to use another external 
program, and it will surely never "fail horribly".

Sounds logical :-}

I don't want to transform this into a long argument - I know how things can 
easily turn on developpers mailing lists ;-) but for some reason this reminds 
me of a joke we have in France about politicians :

« Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how you can do without it. »

Okay.

For now, I have found the "perfect solution" for me, which was to revert back 
to Ubuntu Gutsy's nut 2.0.5 package with the good old "fentonups" driver that 
has all I need - because I had put it in myself some years back.

I think that my best option from now on will be to start maintaining the 
fentonups driver myself and make it compatible with the latest nut package 
(if it isn't), and then build my own 2.2 package with "fentonups included", 
at least as long as I keep my old dumb UPS. This way I won't have to bother 
maintainers asking them to add code that they don't want to add to "new" 
drivers that are better because they have less features ;-)

Best regards.

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