[Nut-upsuser] Fwd: Cyberpower usbhid-ups wrong battery voltage

[davor emard]

HI

I didn't know the ranges overlap :(. Maybe I can have some solution
based on remaining capacity percentage of the battery and its expected
voltage, they are somehow in correlation, I think there has to be a
way to detect wrong battery voltage automatically and reliably...

In the meantime I have asked cyberpower support to at least tell
me conversion formula for this value. Maybe I'm not the first one
asking them this but it doesn't cost to try

Best regards, Davor


On 4/2/08, Arjen de Korte <nut+users at de-korte.org> wrote:
> > My proposal is to even when we see product/vendor id, we make
> > extra sanit(ar)y checks before fixing values just to make
> > sure cyberpower haven't fixed them in some newer firmware
> > and we do fix already fixed values
>
> [...]
>
> We can't (and won't) reliably do that. The ranges for fixed/unfixed values
> overlap. If you conditionally adjust values based on the readings, you'd
> get nasty jumps in the battery voltage, which is even worse from a user
> perspective than a value that is off by a fixed factor and/or offset. So
> we either leave the 'unfixed' versions as they are or risk breaking
> 'fixed' versions of the firmware. As already mentioned, CyberPower doesn't
> have the best track record in this respect, so I don't think we will fix
> this in NUT (since there are other models that use the same ProductID that
> don't have this firmware flaw).
>
> Best regards, Arjen
>
>