[Nut-upsuser] nut with Belkin "Active Battery Backup" UPS (BU30 series)

[Luis Angel Cofiño]

Hi:

I bought a Belkin Active Battery Backup UPS too.

I installed included WinPower software too, with a partial success: The agent 
starts and does his work, this is, it watches in background and starts a 
shutdown when power fails for ten minutes. But the GUI fails to start because 
different Java problems. And without this Java interface, any action the 
agent will do can't be monitored, and setup is not possible. 

I do not like WinPower. Nut is a best option. but I cannot make it working 
with nut with any drivers (belkin, belkinunv, usbhid-ups, megatec... well, I 
tried most of them without any success).

Like davisc in another post, I've tried version 2.0.5 and 2.2.0 compiled in an 
updated Gentoo Linux system.

The ouput of "usbhid-ups -DDDD -a belkin -u root -x explore -x 
vendorid=0665 -x productid=5161" is like davisc's one, or very closed. Like 
him, /dev/hiddev0 dissapears after run it, too.

Output follows:

[504] # /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -DDDD -a belkin -u root -x explore -x
vendorid=0665 -x productid=5161 > ejecucion.txt

debug level is '4'
Checking device (03F0/1016) (010/003)
- VendorID: 03f0
- ProductID: 1016
- Manufacturer: unknown
- Product: unknown
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 010
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
Checking device (0000/0000) (010/001)
- VendorID: 0000
- ProductID: 0000
- Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22-kal uhci_hcd
- Product: UHCI Host Controller
- Serial Number: 0000:00:0b.1
- Bus: 010
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
Checking device (0665/5161) (008/009)
- VendorID: 0665
- ProductID: 5161
- Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
- Product: USB to Serial
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 008
Trying to match device
Device matches
HID descriptor, method 1: (9 bytes) => 09 21 00 01 00 01 22 1b 00
i=0, extra[i]=09, extra[i+1]=21
HID descriptor, method 2: (9 bytes) => 09 21 00 01 00 01 22 1b 00
HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 27)
Report descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 27)
Found HID device
Report Descriptor size = 27
Report Descriptor: (27 bytes) => 06 00 ff 09 01 a1 01 09 02 15 00 26 ff 00
75 08 95 08 81 82 09 02 95 08 91 82 c0
Detected a UPS: Cypress Semiconductor/USB to Serial
Using subdriver: EXPLORE HID 0.1
parsing ff000001
parsing ff000002
Path depth = 2
0: Usage(ff000001)
1: Usage(ff000002)
Can't find object ff000001.ff000002
Path: ff000001.ff000002, Type: Input, ReportID: 0x00, Offset: 0, Size: 8
parsing ff000001
parsing ff000002
Path depth = 2
0: Usage(ff000001)
1: Usage(ff000002)
Can't find object ff000001.ff000002
Path: ff000001.ff000002, Type: Output, ReportID: 0x00, Offset: 0, Size: 8
upsdrv_updateinfo...
dstate_init: sock /var/lib/nut/usbhid-ups-belkin open on fd 5
upsdrv_updateinfo...
Waiting for notifications...

(Output stucks here... and I pressed Ctrl-C)

Signal 2: exiting
Closing device

Ideas, anyone?
 
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Luis Angel Cofiño
nut at lacofi.org
Solo para sus ojos :-)