[Nut-upsuser] RE: PowerCom Smart King SMK-1000

[Simon Rozman]

Hello. Long time no hear. I have been busy doing other side projects, like
getting married. ;) Now I am subscribed again.

Alexander, I suggest you do a quick test, whether your UPS is a true legacy
PowerCom UPS. Connect to your UPS at /dev/ttyS0 (COM1 for example) using
minicom or some other serial terminal utility (use 1200 BPS, 8-bit, no
parity, and one stop bit). Send the \x01 character (or Ctrl+A) to the UPS.
If the UPS responds with approximately ten characters of binary data (I get
something like "..||`.a at K.." in reply), then we shall speak further. :)

Otherwise, I was googling the web about this UPS and all sites I found ended
with a ".ru". What is this, a Russian market UPS only?

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: arnaud.quette at mgeups.com [mailto:arnaud.quette at mgeups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 4:41 PM
To: Alexander Shkinev
Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org; Simon Rozman
Subject: Re: PowerCom Smart King SMK-1000



> I've tried the Fenton Driver for my UPS. The Powercom driver doesn't work.
>
> Here is the results:
>
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.0
> Network UPS Tools - Fenton UPS driver 1.21 (2.0.0)
> Unknown ups - please report this ID string: #PCM             SMK-1000
2001
> V9.0
> Detected Unknown MK-1000 on /dev/ttyS0
>
> Have you any ideas to make it compartible with NUT.

There should be 2 ways, also I don't know the internals
of fentonups nor powercom (ie do both use the megatec
protocol?):

1) extending powercom: I've cc'ed Simon as he should have
more to tell about this (Simon, please subscribe to the
new mailing lists)

2) extending fentonups, with your above ID string, following
the examples in fentonups.h (search for "devices which don't
implement...") and the tech specs of your unit.

Arnaud
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