[Nut-upsuser] MGE Nova AVR 600 USB on FreeBSD

[Herman J van der Merwe]

Hi Rob,

Please state which version of FreeBSD you are running and if you have a 
custom kernel.

There were some ugen bugs in FreeBSD 6.0

Herman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Wise" <rob at wonk.org>
To: <nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:52 AM
Subject: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Nova AVR 600 USB on FreeBSD


> Hi,
>
> I've seen a few emails in the archives about problems polling MGE UPSs
> via USB under FreeBSD, but unfortunately I didn't find a solution in
> them that works for me.
>
> A few details about my setup.. The UPS is a MGE Nova AVR 600 connected
> via USB to a FreeBSD 6.2 box.  I have tried both the nut port (2.0.5)
> and the svn trunk but have had no success yet.  I am running nut as
> root to exclude the possibility of permission issues.
>
> The testing below is done on the trunk version.
>
> My ups.conf:
> [mge-nova]
>        driver=usbhid-ups
>        port=auto
>        desc="MGE Nova 600VA on Bozo"
>        vendorid = 0463
>        pollinterval = 30
>
> upsd.conf:
> ACL all 0.0.0.0/0
> ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32
> ACCEPT localhost
> REJECT all
> MAXAGE 60
>
> usbdevs -vd:
> Controller /dev/usb0:
> addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),
> Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
>  uhub0
> port 1 addr 2: low speed, power 20 mA, config 1, NOVA AVR(0xffff),
> MGE UPS SYSTEMS(0x0463), rev 0.01
>   ugen0
>
> When I start up the usbhid-ups driver manually it seems to be able to
> communicate with the UPS ok:
> bin/usbhid-ups -DD -u root -a mge-nova
> Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.1.0)
>
> debug level is '2'
> Checking device (0463/FFFF) (/dev/usb0//dev/ugen0)
> - VendorID: 0463
> - ProductID: ffff
> - Manufacturer: MGE UPS SYSTEMS
> - Product: NOVA AVR
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: /dev/usb0
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 358)
> Report descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 358)
> Found HID device
> Report Descriptor size = 358
> Detected a UPS: MGE UPS SYSTEMS/NOVA AVR
> Using subdriver: MGE HID 1.0
> Path: UPS.PowerConverter.PowerConverterID, Type: Feature, ReportID:
> 0x0b, Offset: 0, Size: 8, Value: 1.000000
> (I get lots of lines like this with various data form the UPS.  The
> last couple of lines of output are..)
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> dstate_init: sock /var/db/nut/mge-nova open on fd 5
> upsdrv_updateinfo...
> Waiting for notifications...
>
> At this point I load up upsd with the following result:
>
> ./upsd -DDD -u root
> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.1.0
> /usr/local/ups/etc/upsd.conf is world readable
> listen_add: added 0.0.0.0:3493
> listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
> Connected to UPS [mge-nova]: mge-nova
> /usr/local/ups/etc/upsd.users is world readable
> Pinging UPS [mge-nova]
> Pinging UPS [mge-nova]
> sstate_dead: didn't hear from driver for UPS [mge-nova] for 0 seconds
> Data for UPS [mge-nova] is stale - check driver
> sstate_dead: didn't hear from driver for UPS [mge-nova] for 0 seconds
> Pinging UPS [mge-nova]
> sstate_dead: didn't hear from driver for UPS [mge-nova] for 0 seconds
> (continues on like this)
>
> The window running usbhid-ups does not show any further output while
> this is occuring.
>
> I could use some suggestions on where to go from here.  I'm happy to
> test code, capture debugs, etc, to get these FreeBSD related problems
> sorted out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
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