[Nut-upsdev] Totally beyond me

[Charles Lepple]

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On Jul 13, 2015, at 11:00 PM, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Okay.  I went through the pages from Roger Price and have set up enough, I think that I 
> should at least get an 'OL' response when I run  'upsdrvctl start' .  Instead I get this:
> [CODE]
> root at debian:/home/john# upsdrvctl start
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.2
> Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.38 (2.7.2)
> USB communication driver 0.32
> No matching HID UPS found
> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
> [CODE]
> 
> Is this because there is no specific driver for my UPS ?   I am totally perplexed.

No, it says that the HID driver did not match your UPS. The list archives mention that the blazer_usb (and now nutdrv-qx) drivers work with some models that use WinPower, but this is not guaranteed (WinPower may have been extended since then). What does "lsusb" show?

> John 
>  
> "Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" 
> -attributed to Bertrand Russel
> 
> From: Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>
> To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: "nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org" <nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org> 
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Totally beyond me
> 
> On Jul 13, 2015, at 7:59 PM, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > When I ran  upsdrvctl start  I got a message about the usbhid-ups driver.  It appears that NUT
> > is not configured with the driver.
> 
> What is the exact message?
> 
> The "nut" package in Debian depends on both "nut-client" and "nut-server", and the USB drivers are in nut-server. (There are other packages for the less common drivers.)
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/nut-server/filelist
> 
> >  The instructions in the man page is all greek to me.
> 
> As you may be aware, most man pages are reference material. However, in the "See Also" section at the end of most (if not all) of the NUT man pages, it mentions the NUT website. The documentation for installing the packages is online, as well as in the "nut-doc" package: http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/ar01s05.html#Installing_packages 
> 
> There is also this document by Roger Price: <http://rogerprice.org/NUT.html>. While it is written with openSUSE in mind, the Debian version would not be that different. Configuration files are stored in /etc/nut rather than /etc/ups, and you determine the Debian paths of other files by searching the package database for the last part of the path, e.g.:
> 
> $ dpkg --search usbhid-ups
> nut-server: /lib/nut/usbhid-ups
> nut-server: /usr/share/man/man8/usbhid-ups.8.gz
> 
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> 
> > As I said before, I am not a programmer.  I suspect that NUT might need to be compiled with that driver, but I really don't know.  Any instructions would have to be written so that ANYBODY could follow them, not just programmers.
> 
> 
> Writing good software documentation involves having non-programmers work with programmers to identify the parts that non-programmers shouldn't need to know. It would be great if you could let us know where we should put extra pointers to the documentation that we have.
> 
> -- 
> Charles Lepple
> clepple at gmail
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