[Nut-upsuser] Sustainer S-1000C (Powercom protocol)

Mon Aug 22 07:44:29 UTC 2005

The problem occurs when reading from COM port. Since the function get_buf()
in serial.c always return -1 in case of any error (COM port timeout, read
error, etc.), I am unable to give you any specific answer, how to make it
work.

Check if you are using the right port (/dev/ttyS0) and the port is not in
use by other programs.

If that doesn't resolve your problem, I advise you to connect to your UPS at
/dev/ttyS0 using minicom or some other serial terminal utility (use 1200
BPS, 8-bit, no parity, one stop bit, and no flow control at all). Send the
\x01 character (or Ctrl+A) to the UPS. The UPS should respond with
approximately eleven to sixteen characters of binary data (I get something
like "..||`.a at K.." in reply). You should experience connecting with
different settings until you succeed. If the working settings are different
from the above, somebody could make a new submodel in the powercom NUT
driver for you.

Regards,
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: nut-upsuser-bounces at lists.alioth.debian.org
[mailto:nut-upsuser-bounces at lists.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Dror Eiger
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 2:27 PM
To: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: [Nut-upsuser] Sustainer S-1000C (Powercom protocol)

Hi,

I've sent the following message 3 weeks ago, yet have recieved no reply at 
all. I don't want to nag, but could anyone please help me?

Thanks,
Dror

------------------
Hi,

I have a UPS of the Israeli company Sustainer, model S-1000C 
(http://www.sustainer.co.il/data/files/specifications%20smart%20en.pdf - 
don't worry, it's in english...).

I've been trying to connect to it from Debian to no avail for a long time 
now.
The company has attached to it a program called Commander Pro (for windows) 
and RPMs of UPSmart for old versions of Redhat and Mandrake, which were of 
no use to me.
When I requested a program for Debian, they gave me "clientmate for linux" 
(http://www.icamview.com/pub/pub/netagent%20utility/clientmate%20for%20linux
%20v3.3.zip), 
which is an old tarball installation that didn't work even after being 
adjusted manually.

In the end I've decided to try to download the drivers from another Israeli 
company, Advice, from the reasonable assumption that they probably use the 
same far-eastern manufacturer, and voila: it worked! The program is Powercom

UPSMON Plus (http://www.advice.co.il/data/prog/UPSMON_LINUX.zip).
The program itself gave the following feedback:
# ./upsmon /dev/ttyS0 300 60
Copyright(c) Powercom Co., Ltd., all rights reserved.
UPSMON V0.9 program start!
UPSMON: The COM port use /dev/ttyS0.
UPSMON: Ac Fail count down is seted 300 secs.
UPSMON: UPS shutdown delay time is seted 1 mins and 0 secs.
Check UPS type.....
UPSMON: UPS Connected!!

And the enclosed upsdisp program gave the following nice screen:
UPSMON Plus For Linux V0.71
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------
NOW:Fri Jul 29 23:30:22 2005 |
Power Loading 19.0% |
>>>>| AC Fail count: 300
|
| Input AC Power: AC Normal
Battery Capacity 100.0% |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>| Battery Status: Normal
|
| Avr Status: Bypass
|
AC Input Voltage 197.0V | UPS Status: Normal
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|
| Temp: 37.8°C
|
| Line Freq.: 49.9Hz
AC Output Voltage 232.0V |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>| Serial Port: /dev/ttyS0
|
| Comm. Status: Conn.
|
|

Press Ctrl_C to Exit UPSMON Plus Display Program!!

Nevertheless, I haven't managed to make NUT work with it. When I tried using

the powercom driver, I got the following response, no matter which type I 
entered (including the KIN1500AP I've seen on the wayback machine had the 
same problem - 
http://web.archive.org/web/20041020015206/lists.exploits.org/ups/Jan2004/000
03.html):
# upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.1
Network UPS Tools - PowerCom and similars protocol UPS driver $ Revision: 
0.5 $ (2.0.1)

data receiving error (-1 instead of 11 bytes)

Running the driver itself on KIN-1500AP with debug:
/lib/nut# ./powercom -D -x type=KIN1500AP /dev/ttyS0
Network UPS Tools - PowerCom and similars protocol UPS driver $ Revision: 
0.5 $ (2.0.1)

debug level is '1'
Values of arguments:
manufacturer : 'PowerCom'
model name : 'Unknown'
serial number : 'Unknown'
line voltage : '230'
type : 'KIN1500AP'
number of bytes from UPS: '16'
method of flow control : 'no_flow_control'
validation sequence: '{{7,0},{8,0},{8,0}}'
shutdown arguments: '{{0,10},n}'
frequency calculation coefficients: '{0.000210,0.000000}'
load percentage calculation coefficients: 
'{6.134300,-0.380800,1.075000,0.181100}'
battery percentage calculation coefficients: 
'{5.000000,0.326800,-825.000000,0.465110,0.000000}'
voltage calculation coefficients: '{0.828570,0.000000}'
data receiving error (-1 instead of 16 bytes)
data receiving error (-1 instead of 16 bytes)
Signal 2: exiting

While UPSMON plus is up, doing cat on /dev/ttyS0 gives the following data:
(199.0 199.0 235.0 019 50.0 27.8 37.8 00101000^M

Any thoughts?

Thank you,
Dror

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