[Nut-upsdev] upsd flapping in the breeze

[Arnaud Quette]

2009/5/26 Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org <nut%2Bdevel at de-korte.org>>

> Citeren Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>:
>
>  Note that I still have trouble starting mge-shut - 50+% of the time it
>> says "Unable to get Report Descriptor"
>>
>
> Have you also tried the newmge-ups driver? Being based on the same core as
> the usbhid-ups (USB) driver, it may be a little more forgiving in case of
> timeouts (although I'm not very familiar with it's predecessor, mge-shut).
>

CAUTION: newmge-shut has still a major issue I haven't yet solved (which
explains why it has not yet superseded): a loss of synchronization tends to
happen.

The SHUT protocol is *very* verbose and uses a slow 2400 baud link, so you
> want to give it lots of time before giving up (reading a 1500+ bytes report
> descriptor will take more than 10 seconds). You may want to increase MAXAGE
> in upsd.conf to at least double that, to prevent PINGing the driver to
> death.
>

I still have a point in my TODO list which is the baudrate negotiation.
newer units supports it.
there are also rooms for improvement on the startup sequence.

Daniel: I'm interested in debug trace of these startup failure. just to see
how it fails, and what should be done.

cheers,
Arnaud
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