[Nut-upsuser] CyberPower CP1200AVR/BC1200D problems

[Rob]

Yes, I'd be very interested in getting a copy of your driver which works
with the CP1200AVR.   Does your cpsups driver support USB connections or
only serial?  Also, which NUT release is it based on/work with (2.0.x or
2.1)?

Rob

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] CyberPower CP1200AVR/BC1200D problems
> From: doug reynolds <mav at wastegate.net>
> Date: Thu, July 20, 2006 9:07 pm
> To: Rob <lists at midsummerdream.org>
> Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> 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.