[Nut-upsuser] CyberPower CP1200AVR/BC1200D problems

[doug reynolds]

Rob wrote:
> I recently purchased a CyberPower CP1200AVR UPS and am trying to get 
> NUT 2.0.3 or NUT 2.1.0 to work with the newhidups driver, but am 
> having little success.  Before I purchased I did some googling and saw 
> people talking about problems so I'm guessing it may not be supported 
> yet?  I did find some posts about people getting it to (sort of) work 
> with some hacks, but couldn't tell if they ever got submitted to the 
> NUT development team.  I also found some posts about the CyberPower 
> 900AVR/BC900D having issues, and it looks like I am having the same 
> problems as the person trying to use that UPS.  Namely, I see these 
> messages in syslog:
>
> kernel: usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd newhidups rqt 128 
> rq 6 len 255 ret -110
>
> I don't have much experience in protocol decoding, but I am a software 
> engineer and I'd like to help get this UPS supported by NUT.  Does 
> anyone know the status of the support for the CyberPower CP1200AVR or 
> have anything new to try?
i got mine working fairly well with the cpsups with a couple change to 
the code... email me if you would like a copy of my driver.