[Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite Internet Office 350VA

[Peter Selinger]

Dear Samuel,

thanks for your work. It would be great if you could integrate your
driver with NUT, but check first that it does not overlap with an
existing driver in the driver/ directory. I looked briefly at your
code, but I could not find a human-readable protocol description.

To make a NUT driver is easy; start by looking at docs/new-drivers.txt
in the NUT distribution. Basically, NUT already takes care of all the
stuff that is common to all drivers, such as opening the serial port
and so forth. You just have to fill in the parts that read and write
information to the actual device. If you wrote your daemon in 24
hours, it probably will not take you long to write a NUT driver.

For your information, the Belkin USB models are now supported in the
NUT Development version, which you can download from CVS. See the NUT
"Download" page for instructions on how to get the Development
version.

-- Peter

Samuel Ventura wrote:
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> This is a USB only ups.
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> I could not make it work with nut. So I put this daemon together.
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> Get it from http://www.vsys.org/sventura/dev/ at the bottom of the page.
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> Init scripts are gentoo based but I think it should be easy to adjust 
> them to any distro.
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> I am planning to integrate it with nut if I can find the time and there is
> enough interest on it to justify the project.
> 
> This is a very entry level ups, nothing fancy, it can only tell you 3 
> states,
> ONLINE, OFFLINE and PANIC. But it easily keeps a complete workstation
> running for 5 minutes.
> 
> Here in Mexico it is hard to find a APC dealer. Nut supported Belkin 
> rs232 models
> were available for a time frame and then discontinued if favour of 
> unsupported USB
> ones. TrippLite installation cd refused to work on my gentoo box even 
> when linux
> is listed as supported for that model.
> 
> You have to play with what you can get and this ups (TL350U) is very 
> popular. You
> can find it even at departamental stores.
> 
> I hope someone can put this code to good use.
> 
> Regards
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