[Nut-upsdev] Powercom support and sponsorship

[Alexander Gordeev]

Hi All,

Sorry for the delay :(

В Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:12 +0100
Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org> пишет:

> Citeren Morozov Alexey <morozov at pcm.ru>:
> 
> > Our engineers fixed problem and prepare updated firmware. I could
> > provide new demo sample to Alexander this weekend. This firmware get
> > correct status and data from UPS but not shutdown system.
> 
> It would be helpful if NUT would be able to shutdown the UPS too.
> This is essential in case of unattended shutdowns. Are you telling
> that there is no way to make the UPS power off the outlets and wait
> for the mains power to return?

I think, Alexey means that gnome-power-manager + kernel usbhid driver
are not able to shutdown system when battery gets low. So maybe NUT can
do the job better. I'll test it today.

> > Communication via USB in previous version firmware based on get
> > report (by default) but it changed to interapt report. If it
> > possible please use both report type (get and interapt reports) in
> > OS.
> 
> I'm not quite sure I understand what you're saying here. Do you mean  
> the UPS no longer uses feature reports, but instead only pushes data  
> through the interrupt pipeline?
> 
> We currently do use both feature- and input reports. Currently, when  
> we get an input report (through the interrupt pipeline) we read the  
> corresponding feature report (mostly for working around broken input  
> reports on some Belkin models). We could make this optional however.
> 
> @Alexander: If you receive the newer unit, could you please run the  
> usbhid-ups driver with -DDD enabled? I would love to see the new (?)  
> report descriptor of this device. The version from the trunk should
> be able to recognize the VID:PID of the UPS, so there is no more need
> to use the explore option anymore.

Sure, attached it.

-- 
  Alexander
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