[Nut-upsdev] RunTimeToEmpty is in minutes or seconds?

[Kelly Byrd]

Heh, ya. It does smell of copy-pasta.

I've got a consumer APC UPS. When I get time, I'll connect it to my NUT dev
server and sit what it reports with usbhid-ups vs what the display shows.
I'll also confirm with what Windows or MacOS think (but I don't know how
their drivers work)




On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 4:23 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> Kelly Byrd <kbyrd at memcpy.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks for the reply, it looks to me (based on various existing
> HID-based
> > drivers in the NUT source tree) that everyone is just mapping it directly
> > with a line like this in a hid_info_t:
> >   { "battery.runtime", 0, 0, "UPS.PowerSummary.RunTimeToEmpty", NULL,
> > "%.0f", 0, NULL }
> >
> > I found that in belkin-hid, apc-hid, cps-hid, tripplite-hid, and a bunch
> of
> > others. This seems like evidence that real world UPS devices are using
> > seconds.
>
> Strictly, it's evidence that the person who wrote the first driver,
> before it was copied, thought they use seconds.  I'm kind of kidding,
> but not entirely.
>
> Can you compare reported runtimes to displays and sanity to confirm that
> this is really true?
>
> If the devices are all wrong compared to the spec, we should add a
> comment that the spec says that value is in minutes but that we know
> this manufacturer puts seconds in the field instead.
>
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