[Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

[Peter Selinger]

Dear Gary,

NUT 2.0.3 is an ancient version. CPS support was added to newhidups
much later.

-- Peter

P.S. please keep list traffic on the mailing list. Thanks! 

Gary Redden wrote:
> 
> You wrote the following on the NUT-upsuser mailing list
> 
> To check if your device's USB interface is supported, try the
> newhidups driver. You can run this driver (at first) as
> 
>  drivers/newhidups -DD -u root auto
> 
> If the device is not (yet) supported, then please find out the vendor
> id and product id of the device; they should be in the debug output
> from the driver (something like abcd/0123), or you can see them with
> 'lsusb' or similar.
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> I have the same Geek Squad UPS.  Cyber Power Systems support told me to 
> use newhidups driver but the following printout from newhidups seems to 
> say the UPS is not supported. The only CPS UPS shown under newhidups is 
> the 685AVR.  I have e-mailed CPS support to see if the 685AVR driver 
> will work with the GS 1285U. But I do not know how to proceed.
> 
> gary at redden-p700:~$ sudo /lib/nut/newhidups -DD -u root auto
> Password:
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3)
> 
> debug level is '2'
> Checking device (0764/0501) (001/003)
> - VendorID: 0764
> - ProductID: 0501
> - Manufacturer: CPS
> - Product:  GS 1285U
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device does not match - skipping
> Checking device (0553/0202) (001/002)
> - VendorID: 0553
> - ProductID: 0202
> - Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics
> - Product: USB Dual-mode Camera
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device does not match - skipping
> Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001)
> - VendorID: 0000
> - ProductID: 0000
> - Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.15-27-386 uhci_hcd
> - Product: UHCI Host Controller
> - Serial Number: 0000:00:07.2
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device does not match - skipping
> No appropriate HID device found
> No matching USB/HID UPS found
> gary at redden-p700:~$ sudo lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc.
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0553:0202 STMicroelectronics Imaging Division 
> (VLSI Vision) Aiptek PenCam 1
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> gary at redden-p700:~$
>