[Nut-upsuser] Mitsubishi 2033C via gamtronic (SEC)?

[Arnaud Quette]

2012/8/6 Mark Felder <feld at feld.me>

> Hi guys,
>

Hi Mark,

I have a couple Mitsubishi 2033C UPSes that I badly want data from. We used
> to have Mitsubishi Netcom devices which took the serial output and provided
> a web interface, SNMP, and email alerts. All of those devices died. They're
> really awful devices (they're clunky and have 386s in them) and not worth
> the pricetag for a replacement.
>
> The closest replacement I've seen so far is a device by Chipkin but it's
> not very clear if they're actually selling it -- http://www.chipkin.com/**
> products/cas-gateways/cas-**2700-21-mitsubishi-ups-**gateway/<http://www.chipkin.com/products/cas-gateways/cas-2700-21-mitsubishi-ups-gateway/>
>
> After reading about the Chipkin I realized the UPS I'm working with speaks
> the SEC protocol. This is supposed to be supported by the gamtronic driver.
> My next thought is getting something like a Soekris/Alix/RaspberryPi device
> nearby and reading the data with NUT. Has anyone tried this before? It
> seems nobody even talks about these Mitsubishi UPSes on the internet, so
> it's a little scary -- I've seen UPSes (namely APC) decide to shutdown if
> you plug in the wrong serial cable, so I'm worried about what could happen
> if something malformed comes over the wire.
>
>
> Thanks for any pointers you might have.
>

sadly for you:
- we don't have any Mitsubishi units supported,
- actual SEC support in the gamatronic driver probably requires the below
patch, that I've never integrated due to the lack of users/testers:
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=303719&group_id=30602&atid=411544

Note that this patch will probably not apply straight on a recent archive.

You may also be interested in looking at this tracker (preliminary effort,
before I asked Julius to merge this with gamatronic):
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=302733&group_id=30602&atid=411544

cheers,
Arnaud
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