[Nut-upsuser] Update on gnome-power-manager

[Phillip Susi]

On 1/10/2011 7:03 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> no, not yet.
> I've been hesitating for long, on either removing this or updating it to
> feed UPower.
> my stance is now that NUT will allows to feed UPower, for any kind of driver
> (including serial).
> but this will need some more investigation and work, that I'm willing to put
> during the 2.8 development cycle (ie once 2.6.0 is out... this week).
> 
> In the meantime, I'm interested in feedback. So if you have any remark, I'd
> happy to hear these...

When you come up with some patches I'll be happy to test.  I have an old
CyperPower 1000AVR with a serial interface.  I've never even tried to
get it running under Linux because I figured they used a proprietary
protocol, but recently I found nut and noticed it supports it.  It would
be nice to be able to see the stats in gnome-power-manager.  I just
replaced the batteries again a few weeks ago and it would be nice to be
able to monitor the battery voltage and do a load test periodically and
tell when the batteries are getting weak before they just fail outright
during a black/brown out.