[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, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
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>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Arjen de Korte wrote:
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>>> 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
>
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I will e-mail the output from in the other thread.

p34:~# /lib/nut/newhidups -x productid=0912 -u nut -DDDDDDDD auto

Is it just a coincidence that the UPS is having issues or does the new 
version of nut have a bug? I will try the older version again shortly.