[Nut-upsdev] HP T/R2200 G2

[Charles Lepple]

[moved to nut-upsdev]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:29 AM, James Harper wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:11
>> To: James Harper
>> Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] HP T/R2200 G2
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:18 AM, James Harper
>> <james.harper at bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone had any success with the HP T/R2200 G2? I have used the
>>>> T/R2200 with nut a few times before and it works great, but the G2
>>>> doesn't want to talk to me.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried bcmxcp from 2.0.4, 2.2.2, and svn, as well as the usb
>>>> drivers. Maybe the G2 isn't a rebadged powerware unit?
>>
>> What errors are you getting with the USB drivers? (Permissions are a
>> little more complicated with USB peripherals.)
>
> 'Can't open POWERWARE USB device, retrying ...' with the bcmxcp_usb
> driver.
>
> I'm running the drivers directly for testing, and specifying '-u root'
> to make sure that permissions aren't an issue. An strace shows no  
> access
> denied type errors.
>
>>> One more thing... if it helps, the usb info is:
>>>
>>> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:1f0a Hewlett-Packard
>>
>> What does 'lsusb -vvv -d 03f0:1f0a' return?
>>
>
> Attached.
>
> The source code definitely makes no reference to that vendorid or
> productid that I can see.
>
> I did try the '-x explore' with the usbhid-ups driver (2.2.2 version),
> debug output of that is attached if that helps.
>
> Thanks
>
> James<r2200g2.txt><r2200g2-explore.txt>

Here they are, compressed.

I think that it should be relatively easy to support this model,  
since it appears to follow the HID Power Device Class spec. (The  
devil is in the details, such as what the UPS actually reports as the  
battery runs down.)

Arnaud, Arjen - any thoughts?

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail


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