[Nut-upsdev] HP T/R2200 G2

[Arnaud Quette]

hi there,

2008/9/10 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
>
>> [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.)
>
>
> James,
>
> The private usage pages for this UPS look remarkably similar to what is
> mentioned in the Tripp Lite sub-driver of usbhid-ups.

I haven't looked at the trace, but I know that both Powerware and
Tripplite are manufacturing units to HP.
so your assertion should be more than accurate.

Arnaud
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