[Nut-upsuser] NUT and unsupported UPS brands

[Arjen de Korte]

>>    some months ago I bought an SBS GC400 UPS.
>>    I came with a kit RS232 + UPSmart CDROM that works only with RedHat
> 7.0-7.3.
>>    As I use Debian I tried alien with no success.
>>
>>    Can you please provide me with any hint to understand if my UPS can
> be managed by NUT?
>>    Can a driver be written, knowing how the cable works and which
> signals come out from the UPS' RS232?
>>
>>           TIA,
>>       Mario Cassani
>
> I don't know anything about such brand.
>
> You have 3 options:
> - dig a bit the net to see if it's a rebrand of some other manufacturer,
> - contact the manufacturer to ask which protocol they use, and ask theim
> to support nut,
> - try some nut driver in debug mode (<driver-name> -DDD ...) and check if
> something works.
>
> Google'ing a bit on UPSmart, I found that trying megatec might be a good
> option.

Looking at the pricetag (about €50, according to Google), I would try the
genericups driver (upstype=7) if the megatec driver doesn't communicate
with this UPS. Chances are that all it supports, is a contact closure
interface. The enclosure looks somewhat like the Sweex 500 I once owned
and which also used UPSmart software. As far as I remember, this software
supported both dumb and smart UPS'es.

Best regards, Arjen
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