[Nut-upsuser] Zigor Ebro 650 compatibility

[Martyn Hill]

WITH attachment, this time... :-)

On 10/08/2012 22:54, Martyn Hill wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 22:34, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>> Aha!
>>
>>
>>     I also found a FreeBSD port patch on-line for 2.6.4 that has yet
>>     to be committed to the ports-tree. I'll try your route against
>>     the latest NUT release and see what we get.
>>
>>
>> guys, I've released 2.6.5 yesterday! go the 2.6.5 route ;)
>
> Yeah - saw that, but didn't see any specific changing referencing the 
> blazer_usb driver, so haven't tried it yet...
>>
>>
>>
>>     I applied the 2.6.4 patch and recompiled and, after chown'ing the
>>     USB DEV nodes, got something very similar, effectively, the sequence:
>>
>>     Trying megatec protocol...
>>     send: Q1
>>     read: Unknown error
>>     Permissions problem: Input/output error
>>
>>     I tried various protocol filters, but only the (new) megatec
>>     protocol gets this far...
>>
>>
>>
>>         Just for fun, I noticed the #ifdef TESTING in blazer_usb.c.
>>
>>         I defined that, and got this output when running ./blazer_usb
>>         -a zigor:
>>
>>         http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/zigor-testing.txt
>>         <http://www.bayofrum.net/%7Ecrees/scratch/zigor-testing.txt>
>>
>>         Any hints there?
>>
>>
>> you've been fooled Chris.
>> TESTING just fakes good values for... testing purpose ;)
>>
>>     Nice!
>>
>>     I then installed the Upsilon s/w on my Windows XP laptop (which
>>     works effectively, even if it looks a bit 'old-school'..)
>>
>>     I did take some comfort in seeing references to 'Megatec(USB)' in
>>     the Upsilon software configuration...
>>
>>     I ran USBSniff against the port whilst attaching the UPS.
>>     Unfortuately, I couldn't make much sense of the verbose USBSniff
>>     output, but if this is useful for debugging (for Arnaud?) I could
>>     share it.
>>
>>
>> yup, there are not many people left out there, that speak Q1...
>> could you please post a link, or a compressed archive (less than 40 Kb!)?
>
> Here's a 6KB rar file of a fresh SniffUSB log file, covering just the 
> first minute after plugging-in the UPS to my XP laptop (UPSilon 
> already running in Windows System tray).
>
> I've no idea what these 'URB' references are between sections,  but 
> around URB 60, I toggled the Beeper and then again around URB 65...
>
> Curiously, the documentation for the Zigor 650 states no Beeper toggle 
> ability, but it does work...
>
> Hope that helps - more than happy to carry out further tests and 
> record the output, if of any use to you...
>
> M.
>
> -- 
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