[Nut-upsuser] Support removed for newer Belkin 1200 VA UPS?

[Justin Piszcz]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Arjen de Korte wrote:
>
>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>>> # /lib/nut/newhidups -u nut -DDDDDDDD auto -x productid=1100
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Checking device (050D/1100) (003/002)
>>> - VendorID: 050d
>>> - ProductID: 1100
>>> - Manufacturer: Belkin
>>> - Product: Belkin UPS
>>> - Serial Number: unknown
>>> - Bus: 003
>>> Trying to match device
>>> This particular Belkin device (050d/1100) is not (or perhaps not yet)
>>> supported by newhidups. Try running the driver with the '-x
>>> productid=1100'
>>> option. Please report your results to the NUT developer's mailing list.
>>
>> You've misplaced the '-x productid=1100' on the commandline. See the
>> output of 'newhidups -h':
>>
>> 	usage: newhidups [OPTIONS] [<device>]
>>
>> As you can see, the device should be the last parameter passed to the
>> driver (in your case, 'auto').
>>
>> Best regards, Arjen
>>
>
> That works, question is, why do I have to specify a productid with the new
> version when the previous previous never had this problem?
>
> Second issue, how come (I have an older model of the Belkin/1200VA) it
> keeps saying low battery?)
>
> Justin.
>
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[belkin]
         driver = newhidups
         port = auto
         desc = "Belkin UPS 1200 VA"
         pollfreq = 5
         productid=1100


This solved the issue for the (newer 1200VA belkin)

Any idea why its saying the battery is low (only the new version does 
this)?

Version = 2.0.5-3+b1

Jul 28 05:13:15 p34 upsmon[2402]: UPS belkin at localhost battery is low
Jul 28 05:14:05 p34 upsmon[2402]: UPS belkin at localhost battery is low