[Nut-upsuser] Tripplite SMX1500XLRT2U through serial

[Roman Serbski]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2008, at 12:55 AM, Roman Serbski wrote:
>
>> Hello list-
>>
>> Anyone with Tripplite SMX1500XLRT2U
>> (http://www.tripplite.com/EN/products/model.cfm?txtModelID=2687)
>> successfully integrated with NUT through serial port? I'm trying to
>> connect to SMX1500XLRT2U using serial cable shipped with UPS under
>> FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE and NUT 2.2.2 installed from ports. Unfortunately,
>> it looks like it couldn't be recognized.
>
> [...]
>
>> I played with different NUT drivers (including genericups) to no
>> available.
>>
>> Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Can you try the USB port? The 2U models switched from the proprietary
> Tripp-Lite signaling (use the tripplite_usb driver) to HID PDC (use the
> usbhid-ups driver) at some point, but I don't know how well the usbhid-ups
> driver has been tested on *BSD.
>
> If that doesn't work, you can try echoing an identification command to the
> serial port, and see what it returns (untested):
>
> $ stty -f /dev/cuad0 raw
> $ echo -ne ':\000\377\015' > /dev/cuad0
> $ hd < /dev/cuad0
>
> Let me know if you get any errors with this, or if it plain doesn't work - I
> don't have a serial UPS to verify this sequence of commands.
>
> There was talk of consolidating the USB and serial Tripp Lite drivers, and
> if/when that happens, there's a better chance that we can support odd
> models.

Thank you Charles! I will try USB port, but frankly speaking I thought
that it should be easier to use serial. :)

By the way, I tried commands provided by you - I see no errors but
neither any helpful information, so I'm not quite sure whether it
worked at all.

Many thanks again.

Regards,
Roman