[Nut-upsuser] Tripplite SMX1500XLRT2U through serial (upslog/CGI problem)

[Charles Lepple]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Roman Serbski <mefystofel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Definitely seems like a permissions problem.
>>
>> It's been a while since I messed with USB on FreeBSD. What do the
>> permissions look like on /dev/ugen*? What modifications did you make
>> to /etc/devfs.rules?
>
> Thanks a lot Charles! I think I managed to get NUT working.
>
> NUT was built from ports with uucp owner by default. As soon as I
> created separate user (nut), replaced uucp with nut in
> /usr/ports/sysutils/nut/Makefile, adjusted devfs.conf and devfs.rules
> accordingly and rebuilt the port I immediately got NUT working!

Would you mind posting the relevant portions of devfs.conf and
devfs.rules? (Some day, we would like to have complete NUT+FreeBSD
documentation available.)

> There are couple of small issues though:
>
> 1. /var/log/ups.log doesn't contain any numbers but only NA, although
> I can see that it's being updated regularly and 'upsc
> tripplite at localhost' gives a lot of data:

You may need to configure something that is specific to the ports
collection - what starts upslog? Does it refer to tripplite at localhost?

> battery.charge: 90
> battery.voltage: 40.50
> battery.voltage.nominal: 36
> driver.name: tripplite_usb
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: /dev/usb3
> driver.version: 2.2.2
> driver.version.internal: 0.11
> input.frequency: 50.0
> input.frequency.nominal: 50
> input.voltage: 256
> input.voltage.maximum: 140
> input.voltage.minimum:   0
> input.voltage.nominal: 230
> outlet.1.desc: Load 1
> outlet.1.id: 1
> outlet.1.switch: 1
> outlet.1.switchable: 1
> outlet.2.desc: Load 2
> outlet.2.id: 2
> outlet.2.switch: 1
> outlet.2.switchable: 1
> outlet.3.desc: Load 3
> outlet.3.id: 3
> outlet.3.switch: 1
> outlet.3.switchable: 1
> outlet.4.desc: Load 4
> outlet.4.id: 4
> outlet.4.switchable: 0
> ups.debug.D: 38 36 38 37 0d 00 00 '8687...'
> ups.debug.load_banks: 3
> ups.debug.M: 30 30 38 43 0d 00 00 '008C...'
> ups.debug.S: 31 34 30 00 5a 31 0d '140.Z1.'
> ups.debug.T: 37 32 31 46 34 30 0d '721F40.'
> ups.debug.V: 32 30 36 33 58 58 0d '2063XX.'
> ups.delay.shutdown: 64
> ups.firmware: F1091.A
> ups.firmware.aux: protocol 3003
> ups.id: 65535
> ups.load: 36
> ups.mfr: Tripp Lite
> ups.model: SMX1500XLRT2U
> ups.power.nominal: 1500
> ups.status: OL
> ups.temperature: 20.5
>
> %tail /var/log/ups.log
> 20081001 170732 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA
> 20081001 171232 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA
> 20081001 171732 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA
>
> 2. I also enabled cgi scripts to show the status of UPS and it works
> well. The only thing is that it shows "Not supported" for Output
> column. Is it somehow related to ups.debug messages I receive from
> upsc or my UPS simply doesn't support this?

I wouldn't say that your UPS doesn't support it - we may just not know
the right variable to read. Does the Windows GUI show an output
voltage?

-- 
- Charles Lepple