[Nut-upsdev] Best UPS protocol for home-made firmware?

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Chris Boot <bootc op bootc.net>:

> I'd really like this UPS to interface with NUT so that I can use a  
> variety of tools to monitor it, such as Nagios and cacti, etc... I  
> really don't want to have to write my own driver for NUT if I can  
> avoid doing so, so the main question is which serial interface is  
> the most sane for me to implement in my controller. The megatec  
> driver seems to be one of the most popular but I can't find much  
> documentation about the protocol.

I don't think this is the most suitable protocol, but nevertheless:

     http://www.networkupstools.org/protocols/megatec.html

> In addition I'm wondering how much NUT looks at various parameters  
> like input / battery / line voltage, since in my case it would be  
> 12-18V and not the more common 110/230V. :-)

NUT basically only really cares about the flags in 'ups.status', all  
other variables are just bells-and-whistles and will not be used to  
determine when it is time to shutdown. So the values of input-,  
output- and battery voltage are irrelevant, they will be relayed as is.

Best regards, Arjen
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