[Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

[Peter Selinger]

No, the Cyberpower 685AVR is supported by newhidups, at least
partially.  It is not a USB-to-serial model. See Scott Alfter's post
to nut-upsdev on 30 Oct 2005 21:13:18 -0800. 

I am not sure if the shutdown commands are working yet; some further
testing from Gary might be useful here.

-- Peter

Doug Reynolds wrote:
> 
> Peter Selinger wrote:
> 
> I wanted to mention that some of Cyberpower UPS use a USB to Serial 
> bridge; I am not sure that the GS upses implement this method or not.  
> If it has a serial port, try using the new 'powerpanel' driver (which I 
> believe is in the new 2.0.5-pre2 release, and in the trunk).
> 
> > 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:~$
>