[Nut-upsuser] Nut with Powercom iCute ICT-530U (USB)

[Peter Selinger]

The line "Product=USB to Serial" is bad news. It means that your
device cannot be supported by newhidups / usbhid-ups (which is a
native USB driver). 

I don't think any of our other drivers currently supports Powercom
serial-over-usb devices.

-- Peter

Dominik_Gora;czkowski wrote:
> Hello Peter!
> 
> Well, my /proc/usb/devices says:
> 
> T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 3 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
> D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
> P: Vendor=0d9f ProdID=0002 Rev= 0.00
> S: Manufacturer=POWERCOM CO., LTD.
> S: Product=USB to Serial
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
> I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hid
> E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms
> E: Ad=02(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms
> 
> And the manufacturer's UPS monitor (not working though) says:
> 
> Copyright(c) Powercom Co., Ltd., all rights reserved.
> UPSMON_USB V0.9 program start!
> UPSMON_USB: The UPS USB serial port use (null).
> UPSMON_USB: Ac Fail count down is seted 30 seconds.
> UPSMON_USB: UPS shutdown delay time is seted 1 minutes and 30 seconds.
> hiddev driver version is 1.0.4
> HID: vendor 0xd9f product 0x2 version 0x0 applications [1]: ffa00001
> HID: bus: 1 devnum: 3 ifnum: 0
> UPS HID device name: "POWERCOM CO., LTD. USB to Serial"
> 
> Is anything of this looking familiar? I haven't got any reply from the 
> manufacturer, so nut is probably my only option of making this UPS 
> working under Linux.
> I'll try the new hid driver - from what I red, I need to compile the 
> project with special options to bulid USB drivers and have usbtools 
> installed already on my system, is this correct?
> 
> Dominik Goraczkowski
> 
> P.S. I've tried to set all options to sent this message encoded 
> correctly this time.
> 
> Peter Selinger napisa?(a):
> > Hi Dominik,
> >
> > no, I don't think I have seen this device before. What is its
> > USB manufacturer and product ID (lsusb or usbview should show this, as
> > does the newhidups driver). 
> >
> > If it is a HID device, then it should not be very difficult to support
> > it in NUT, if it isn't already compatible. 
> >
> > Try the newhidups driver (called usbhid-ups in the newest SVN sources,
> > newhidups in the 2.0.5 release). If it doesn't recognize the device
> > ("no matching devices found..."), try with -u root. If this doesn't
> > work, try the -x explore and -x productid=XXXX options and send the
> > resulting debug output.
> >
> > -- Peter
> >
> > P.S. could you please set your email program to encode text as plain
> > text or quoted printable, rather than base64? I use an ancient mail
> > reader and it shows your email like this:
> >
> > SGkhCgpJcyB0aGVyZSBhbnkgdXNlciBvZiBudXQgaGF2aW5nIHRoaXMgdHlwZSBvZiBVUFM/ICgK
> > aHR0cDovL3d3dy5wY211cHMuY29tLnR3L3Byb2R1Y3QvaUN1dGUuaHRtbCkKSXQgd29ya3Mgbmlj
> > ZSB1bmRlciB3aW5kb3dzIGFuZCBhbHNvIGlzIGRldGVjdGVkIHVuZGVyIExpbnV4IGFuZCBpbnN0
> > etc.
> >
> >   
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Is there any user of nut having this type of UPS? (
> >> http://www.pcmups.com.tw/product/iCute.html)
> >> It works nice under windows and also is detected under Linux and installed
> >> as USB HID device. There is problem however, as the software provided by its
> >> manufacturer (http://www.pcmups.com.tw/download/Download/UPSMON_USBV091.zip)
> >> doesn't seem to comunicate with the UPS at all. It shows messages sugesting
> >> that the UPS is connected and detected, but there is no action when AC is
> >> disconnected. The hardware is working fine, as the windows version of their
> >> UPS monitor instantly shows power surges and turns off the PC. I've sent
> >> mail to the manufacturer but received no reply so far.
> >> So, will nut work with this type of ups? In the compatibility list (
> >> http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html) there is enigmatic
> >> statement "various" in the Powercom section. Shall I have hope and download
> >> the package or just lie down and cry? ;)
> >>
> >> Dominik Gor±czkowski
>