[Nut-upsdev] IVT SCD support status

[Arnaud Quette]

2009/9/11 Rainer Fuegenstein <rfu at kaneda.iguw.tuwien.ac.at>

> Arnaud Quette wrote:
>
>  Interesting to know. have you informed them that they would get support
>> for mostly all OSs except windows (but they already support it)?
>>
> yes, of course I did, but didn't get a reply to this part of my email.
> the guy I had contact with originally was on vacation, I'll contact him
> again, maybe he is more responsive than his colleague.


ok, don't hesitate to send update.


>
>  Now since you came with the first NUT supported SCD, I've made a src.rpm
>> for you:
>> http://opensource.mgeops.com/stable/sources/nut-2.4.1-8.1.src.rpm
>>
>
> big tnx. rpmbuild works with this one! the one that I used had so many
> dependencies to other stuff like powerman etc. I managed to resolve most
> of these dependencies, but gave up later.
>
> there's a slight problem with the rpm %pre scripts when running rpm -i
> on the solar server:
>
> [root at helios tmp]# rpm -i nut-2.4.1-8.1.i386.rpm
> nut-client-2.4.1-8.1.i386.rpm
> usermod: invalid numeric argument 'dialout'
> error: %pre(nut-client-2.4.1-8.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 3
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping nut-client-2.4.1-8.1
> usermod: invalid numeric argument 'dialout'
> error: %pre(nut-2.4.1-8.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 3
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping nut-2.4.1-8.1
>
> I solved this by creating the group "dialout".
>
>
right


> and finally, here it is:
>
> [root at helios ups]# upsc ivtscd
> battery.current: -1.9
> battery.current.maximum: 2.2
> battery.current.minimum: -2.4
> battery.temperature: 16
> battery.voltage: 12.10
> battery.voltage.maximum: 14.02
> battery.voltage.minimum: 11.84
> device.mfr: IVT
> device.model: Solar Controller Device
> device.type: scd
> driver.name: ivtscd
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0
> driver.version: 2.4.1
> driver.version.internal: 0.02
> ups.status: OB
>
> the value of the current is off by about -1A, which also pulls the voltage
> down by about 0,5V or so.
>
>
is that expected? remember that I've not followed the initial thread, nor
had time to do so...
Arjen may have more to say about that.

hope that helps initially; I'll now dig deeper into the nuts configuration.
>

happy to see the first NUT SCD working ;-)

cheers
Arnaud
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