[Nut-upsdev] Some questions about NUT driver development

[João Luis Meloni Assirati]

I just found how to pass custom options. You just have to declare the extra
option with addvar() at upsdrv_makevartable() and then at any other point
of the driver test if it was set at ups.conf with testvar() and
retrieve  its value with getval().

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 5:38 PM João Luis Meloni Assirati <jlmassir at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am developing a new NUT driver for brazilian UPS brand "Ragtech" by
> reverse engeneering. I have never been involved in NUT driver development,
> so I wish to ask some basic questions. Any help will be much appreciated!
>
> 1. Is there a mandatory C code style? I mean, any strong recommendation?
> If there are none, I prefer to keep mine.
>
> 2. What are the purposes of "instant commands" test.battery.start and
> calibration.start? I know an UPS command that will put the load on battery
> until it reaches a low level and then put the UPS online back. After that,
> an UPS variable regarding the detected battery capacity will get updated.
> To which one of those "instant commands" should I associate this UPS
> command? Also, it seems that in this case the status flag CAL must be
> reported, is this right?
>
> 4. When doing the command above, the load is on battery *and* also there
> is line power present. In this case, does it make sense to report both OL
> and OB status flags? Or are OL and OB mutually exclusive?
>
> 3. The UPS connects to computer by USB and appears as a serial port
> /dev/ttyACM?. My driver completely supports hotplugging, so I can plug or
> unplug the usb cable before or after the driver has started. In any case,
> the driver connects, disconnects or reconnects to the UPS. The way I did
> this is by doing connection to the serial port and detection of UPS model
> all in upsdrv_initinfo(), with upsdrv_initups() doing almost nothing.  Is
> this alright?
>
> 4. I wish to be able to pass to the driver some custom options besides the
> "port = " that appears in ups.conf (for example, only manage a device
> that reports a specific serial number). What is the standard way to do this?
>
> I probably will have more questions, please forgive me if I don't ask them
> all in a single e-mail. I plan to submit my code as soon as these naive
> questions get resolved.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> João Luis.
>
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