[Nut-upsuser] Difficulty over USB with a CyberPower 800AVR and

[Peter Selinger]

No, not really. The only "mistake" you made was that you used a stable
version of NUT, rather than the bleeding edge development version.
This problem will solve itself over time, as today's development
version will become tomorrow's stable version. 

I have, however, added a few remarks to the cyberpower man page.

Woogie wrote:
> I'm getting useful information from upsc now

Could you please post the output of upsc for the record? Your device
is an 800AVR, which is similar, but not identical, to the device that
this driver was written for. 

I would also like to see the output of "newhidups -u root -DD -a MyUPS
auto", particularly the lines starting with "Path:". This, together
with the output of upsc, will allow me to verify that the driver is
complete and not missing any features. 

You should also test the shutdown procedure. This includes making sure
that "newhidups -k" is working correctly (make sure you don't have
your computer plugged into the UPS when you try this).

You might also want to test which of the instant commands are
working. Commands that you might test (with upscmd) are:
test.battery.start.quick, test.battery.start.deep, test.battery.stop,
test.panel.start, test.panel.stop, load.off, load.on, shutdown.return,
shutdown.stop, beeper.on (might only work during an "on battery"
situation), beeper.off.

Not all of these will probably be supported, but again, it would be
nice to have the information for the record of what works and what
doesn't.

Thanks, -- Peter

Woogie wrote:
> 
> Wow! Yup, the development version of newhidups does indeed include
> support for my UPS. I'm getting useful information from upsc now
> (which is great).
> 
> Now my only thought is how someone else with my model of UPS would try
> to use it (would they make my mistakes?). Is there a wiki for nut that
> I neglected to look at that would have pointed me straight from day
> one? Or did I misread the documentation included with nut? If not, is
> there anything I could do to help out on the documentation front so
> other users don't get confused like I did?
> 
> Thanks everyone for help in getting me up and running =3D)
> 
> On 5/19/06, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:
> > Woogie wrote:
> > >
> > > It does indeed have a serial port on the UPS. I guess I'll scrounge
> > > about for a serial cable of some sort. I'll look through the dev
> > > mailing lists to see what has been done towards CyberPower USB support
> > > and what there is I can do.
> >
> > The Development version of newhidups from SVN has contained CyberPower
> > USB support since October 23, 2005. The support might not be perfectly
> > fine-tuned to your particular device, but this is easily fixable.
> >
> > -- Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > > Just for clarification, will all UPSes
> > > which communicate over USB use the newusbhid driver, or does that
> > > driver only apply to some classes of USB UPSes?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help
> > >
> > > On 5/18/06, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 5/18/06, Woogie <woogie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > [MyUPS]
> > > > >         driver =3D3D cyberpower
> > > > >         port =3D3D /dev/bus/usb/004/007
> > > > [...]
> > > > > tcgetattr(/dev/bus/usb/004/007): Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > > > > Driver failed to start (exit status=3D3D1)
> > > >
> > > > tcgetattr is only applicable to serial ports. It looks like the
> > > > cyberpower driver has not been expanded to include their USB models
> > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > Can you use the serial port on the UPS?
> > > >
> > > > > Network UPS Tools: HID UPS driver 0.13 (2.0.3)
> > > >
> > > > The older hidups driver is going away soon; don't bother with it.
> > > >
> > > > > Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3)
> > > >
> > > > This driver has a debug dump for new USB/HID UPSes, but unfortunately
> > > > that feature isn't included in 2.0.3.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > - Charles Lepple
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --=3D20
> > > Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb
> > >
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> >
> 
> 
> --=20
> Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb
>