[Nut-upsuser] nut with hal on Fedora 8

[Seann Clark]

Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> I bought a new CyberPower CP850AVRLCD ups, connected it to a usb port
> and I'm trying to use it with hal. I installed
>
> [root at phoenix ~]# rpm -q nut nut-client
> nut-2.2.0-6.1.fc8
> nut-client-2.2.0-6.1.fc8
>
> lsusb sees it:
>
> [root at phoenix docs]# lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0c45:1050 Microdia 
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:3200 Dell Computer Corp. Mouse
> Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f9:01a8 Brother Industries, Ltd 
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc. CP1500 AVR UPS
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
>
> After reading the nut-hal.txt file I checked to see if I have the fdi
> file. I do have it and I did find the 0764:0501 ID in there:
>
>       <!-- CyberPower -->
>       <match key="usb_device.vendor_id" int="0x0764">
>         <match key="usb_device.product_id" int="0x0005">
>           <append key="info.category" type="string">battery</append>
>           <merge key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">battery</merge>
>           <merge key="info.addons"
> type="strlist">hald-addon-usbhid-ups</merge>
>           <merge key="battery.type" type="string">ups</merge>
>         </match>
>         <match key="usb_device.product_id" int="0x0501">
>           <append key="info.category" type="string">battery</append>
>           <merge key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">battery</merge>
>           <merge key="info.addons"
> type="strlist">hald-addon-usbhid-ups</merge>
>           <merge key="battery.type" type="string">ups</merge>
>         </match>
>       </match>
>
>
> I also noticed I have a udev rules file:
>
> [root at phoenix docs]# grep -A 2 -i
> cyberpower /etc/udev/rules.d/52_nut-usbups.rules 
> # CyberPower - usbhid-ups
> ATTR{idVendor}=="0764", ATTR{idProduct}=="0005", MODE="664",GROUP="uucp"
> ATTR{idVendor}=="0764", ATTR{idProduct}=="0501", MODE="664",GROUP="uucp"
>
>
> I stopped and restarted the hal daemon, then plugged in the usb cable,
> but nothing happened. As per nat-hal.txt, the gnome power manager should
> have popped up. Nothing happened. I exited the X-server and logged
> started it again (gnome), unplugged the cord then plugged it back in,
> again nothing happened. So:
>
> 1) How do I actually check that my setup is working?
> 2) Can I use some other client to show info about the ups? 
> 3) ps shows gnome-power-manager running. Why is it not doing anything?
> 4) For my curiosity, which of the fdi and the udev rules files is being
> used, and how can I tell? Which one should be used? Can there be any
> conflicts? My knowledge about udev and hal is too vague.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
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>   
First thing I can think of, and this isn't directly due to experience on 
the USB side, but if you do a 'lsusb -vv' it will supply more 
information on if the system has seen and loaded a driver for the UPS it 
is seeing, otherwise it could just be pulling the vendor information 
from the USB IC on the UPS.

I think you can find the answers to #4 with that verbose lsusb, which 
shows you a lot of the information that matches the udev information.

I will try to help as much as possible, but my UPS is on a Fedora 7 box 
right now, and I use RS232 for mine (it is a rack system and I didn't 
feel like losing the UPS monitoring just because I pulled the chassis 
out a bit, heh)

Regards,
Seann