[Nut-upsuser] Can't get iDowell to work

[Mick]

On 10 January 2011 20:28, Mick <michaelkintzios at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 10 January 2011 12:19:34 you wrote:
>> Hi Mick
>>
>> 2011/1/9 Mick <michaelkintzios at gmail.com>
>
>> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17840 Jul 25 11:45 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-hid-ups
> [snip ...]
>
>> > Could any of the above be causing the clash?
>>
>> indeed, /usr/libexec/hald-addon-hid-ups which is part of UPower (integrated
>> power management), which is automatically launched when a new USB/HID UPS
>> is plugged.
>> since UPower is running as root, it will prevent usbhid-ups from claiming
>> back your UPS after software disconnection.
>> you may try to run nut as root to check if you still see the claim
>> interface failure.
>>
>> I'll have to check UPower, since iirc, it wasn't previously running as root
>> (or I'm maybe confusing with HAL...)
>
> So assuming that the new driver can now deal with my UPS, is this something
> that I'll have wait for to settle, as hal is deprecated and on a path to be
> replaced with upower?

Some more testing tonight and after a reboot I get this.  :-)

# upsc iDowell
battery.capacity: 0.03
battery.charge: 100
battery.charge.low: 15
battery.runtime: 650
device.mfr: iDowell
device.model: iBox
device.serial: 00000001
device.type: ups
driver.name: usbhid-ups
driver.parameter.pollfreq: 30
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.parameter.productid: 0300
driver.parameter.vendorid: 075d
driver.version: 2.6.0-pre1
driver.version.data: iDowell HID 0.1
driver.version.internal: 0.35
ups.delay.shutdown: 20
ups.delay.start: 30
ups.mfr: iDowell
ups.model: iBox
ups.productid: 0300
ups.serial: 00000001
ups.status: OL CHRG
ups.timer.start: 0
ups.vendorid: 075d

While nut is running, my logs fill up with:

Jan 10 22:50:06 compaq usbhid-ups[5083]: libusb_get_report: No error
Jan 10 22:50:08 compaq usbhid-ups[5083]: libusb_get_report: No error
Jan 10 22:50:10 compaq usbhid-ups[5083]: libusb_get_report: No error
Jan 10 22:50:12 compaq usbhid-ups[5083]: libusb_get_report: No error

regularly at 2 second intervals.  Is there a way to tell it to not log
such messages (or log them only once?)

If I add "pollonly" in ups.conf I get these messages:

Jan 10 23:15:57 compaq upsd[5995]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Jan 10 23:15:57 compaq upsd[5995]: Connected to UPS [iDowell]:
usbhid-ups-iDowell
Jan 10 23:15:57 compaq upsd[5995]: allowfrom in upsd.users is no longer used
Jan 10 23:15:57 compaq upsd[5996]: Startup successful
Jan 10 23:15:57 compaq usbhid-ups[5945]: libusb_get_report: could not
claim interface 0: Device or resource busy
Jan 10 23:15:57 compaq usbhid-ups[5945]: Got disconnected by another
driver: Device or resource busy
Jan 10 23:15:59 compaq usbhid-ups[5945]: libusb_get_report: could not
claim interface 0: Device or resource busy
Jan 10 23:15:59 compaq usbhid-ups[5945]: Got disconnected by another
driver: Device or resource busy
... and so on.

Not sure if this is how it should be - but within a few minutes I get:

# upsc iDowell
Error: Data stale


PS. What is the meaning of:  battery.capacity: 0.03 ?
-- 
Regards,
Mick