[Nut-upsuser] Need help identifying UPS for use with NUT

[Diederik Hattingh]

Thanks for the replies guys.
I updated to NUT 2.4.1, and tried the megatec driver (with the rts and dtr
sub options) but no combination of 1 and 0 seemed to work.  I made sendpace
10,20,500 and 1000, but none worked.  The blazer drivers gave me:
/lib/nut/blazer_ser -DDD -a UPS1
Network UPS Tools - Megatec/Q1 protocol serial driver 1.51 (2.4.1)
debug level is '3'
Trying megatec protocol...
send: Q1
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 1 failed
send: Q1
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 2 failed
send: Q1
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 3 failed
Trying mustek protocol...
send: QS
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 1 failed
send: QS
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 2 failed
send: QS
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 3 failed
Trying megatec/old protocol...
send: D
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 1 failed
send: D
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 2 failed
send: D
read: timeout
blazer_status: short reply
Status read 3 failed
No supported UPS detected

blaser_usb gave me
/lib/nut/blazer_usb -DDD -a UPS1
Network UPS Tools - Megatec/Q1 protocol USB driver 0.03 (2.4.1)
debug level is '3'
Checking device (1D6B/0002) (001/001)
- VendorID: 1d6b
- ProductID: 0002
- Manufacturer: unknown
- Product: unknown
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 001
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
Checking device (12CF/0308) (002/003)
- VendorID: 12cf
- ProductID: 0308
- Manufacturer: unknown
- Product: unknown
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 002
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
Checking device (1A86/7523) (002/002)
- VendorID: 1a86
- ProductID: 7523
- Manufacturer: unknown
- Product: unknown
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 002
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
Checking device (1D6B/0001) (002/001)
- VendorID: 1d6b
- ProductID: 0001
- Manufacturer: unknown
- Product: unknown
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 002
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
No appropriate HID device found
No supported devices found. Please check your device availability with
'lsusb'
and make sure you have an up-to-date version of NUT. If this does not help,
try running the driver with at least 'subdriver', 'vendorid' and 'productid'
options specified. Please refer to the man page for details about these
options
(man 8 blazer).

I took some more photos of the inside of the UPS. Would it help to post
them?  I will also try and get another serial USB converter, to just check
if that might be the problem.
Thanks.


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2009/5/5 Diederik Hattingh <diederikjhattingh at gmail.com>
>
> Hi there.
>> I bought a generic UPS from a local (South African) hardware company,
>> Sahara.  They call it an "Electra 1000 Plus".  From what I am told it is a
>> 1000 VA line interactive UPS.  It comes with "WinPower" Java based software
>> that I couldn't get to work. (Crashes on start-up, without any explanation.)
>>
>> I would like to know if any one on this mailing list could help me to
>> figure out what NUT driver I am supposed to use.  I tried megatec, without
>> success. (/lib/nut/megatec -DDDD -a UPS1 returns with "Q1 => FAILED
>> [timeout]" 5 times ) A potential gotcha is that I am using a USB to serial
>> device to talk to the UPS.  It looks like it has installed correctly (dmesg
>> tells me: "usb 2-1: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0").  The
>> USB-Serial adapter is connected to the serial cable that came with the UPS.
>>
>> Some pictures of the UPS and parts of its manual can be found here<http://picasaweb.google.com/diederikjhattingh/Public?feat=email#>(The circuit board is just the switch.  I couldn't yet get to the serial
>> interface part of the UPS. Will still upload a picture of that when I get to
>> it.)
>>
>> I am using Gentoo with NUT version 2.2.2
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> Thanks
>>
>
> just to complete Daniel's answer: whenever you see WinPower, try the
> megatec drivers (serial or USB), or better, the new blazer ones. These are
> Centralion rebranded units.
>
> please report back the results of your testing.
>
> cheers,
> Arnaud
> --
> Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://www.eaton.com/mgeops
> Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
> Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
> Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
>
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