[Nut-upsuser] ST7 RS232 USB Bridge (STMicroelectronics) UPS

[Charles Lepple]

On 7/1/07, Dâniel Fraga <fragabr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:16:12 -0400
> "Charles Lepple" <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 7/1/07, Dâniel Fraga <fragabr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >         I tried newhidups, hidups also without success...
> >
> > You could try running 'newhidups -u root -x vendorid=0483 -x explore
> > -DD' on the UPS, and send the output to the list. (If it's long,
> > please gzip the output and attach it.) This is a debugging mode, so it
> > will not actually monitor the UPS state, but the information can help
> > us match the device to others that are supported by the new
> > megatec_usb driver.
>
> Checking device (0483/0035) (001/003)
> - VendorID: 0483
> - ProductID: 0035
> - Manufacturer: unknown
> - Product: unknown
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> HID descriptor too short (expected 8, got 0)
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 29)
> Unable to get Report descriptor (-110): Connection timed out

After running newhidups (or usbhid-ups in 2.2.0 and later), what does
'lsusb -v' say about the report descriptor?

> > It may also be worthwhile to try the megatec_usb driver directly. This
> > driver was introduced after 2.0.5 was released. The latest NUT release
> > candidate is 2.2.0-pre2, and it can be downloaded here:
> >
> > http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html
> >
> > Let us know how it works.
>
>         I tried the megatec_usb, but it failed:
>
> Network UPS Tools 2.2.0-pre2- - Megatec protocol driver 1.5.4 [megatec_usb]
> Carlos Rodrigues (c) 2003-2007
>
> Serial-over-USB transport layer for Megatec protocol driver [megatec_usb]
>
> No supported devices found. Please check your device availability with 'lsusb'
> and make sure you have an up-to-date version of NUT. If this does not help,
> try running the driver with at least 'vendorid' and 'subdriver' options
> specified. Please refer to the man page for details about these options
> (man 8 megatec_usb).
> Please report your results to the NUT user's mailing list
> <nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org>.
>
>         Then I tried to use agiler and krauler sobdrivers without
> success. I used vendorid and productid and nothing helped.

I am not too familiar with this driver, but it might help to run this
with a few -D options as well.

-- 
- Charles Lepple