[Nut-upsdev] A "standard" serial protocol?

[Rob Groner]

I'm still working on the interface to the UPS we're selling.  USB works great with NUT in Linux, and natively through Windows battery support.  Now I'm looking over the serial protocol.  I can essentially make it anything I want, and it's VERY tempting to make my own protocol that is intuitive and simple, but I have a feeling every UPS maker does that.  So, before I do that...is there a good, simple, robust protocol in use in multiple UPS's out there that is somewhat well documented that I could support instead?  It would probably make integrating NUT/serial easier as well.

I looked at what seemed to be some generic serial drivers in NUT, but the commands supported and response patterns didn't make a lot of sense to me....though I'm not sure how much it really matters if the serial protocol is "readable" to a human.

Thanks.


Rob Groner

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