[Nut-upsuser] Power race? with Eaton 5E and how to auto-mute beeper

[Leith Bade]

As I was writing the last email I just saw this a message that
communications with the UPS was lost, followed a bit later that it had
been restored.

[ 7883.236755] usb 1-10: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups
rqt 161 rq 1 len 4 ret -110
[ 7884.140431] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 9
[ 7885.050902] usb 1-10: new low-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
[ 7885.662851] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=0463, idProduct=ffff
[ 7885.662859] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=0
[ 7885.662864] usb 1-10: Product: 5E
[ 7885.662868] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: EATON
[ 7885.663100] usb 1-10: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 128
microframes, ep desc says 160 microframes
[ 7887.625203] hid-generic 0003:0463:FFFF.0005: hiddev0,hidraw2: USB
HID v1.10 Device [EATON 5E] on usb-0000:00:14.0-10/input0
[ 7889.538816] usb 1-10: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 128
microframes, ep desc says 160 microframes

Now this is almost identical to the Eaton Nova error and the linux-usb error.

I have now set up usbmon to dump all USB messages 24/7 and will leave
it running to see if I can capture more info.
Thanks,
Leith Bade
leith at leithalweapon.geek.nz


On 10 August 2014 17:27, Leith Bade <leith at leithalweapon.geek.nz> wrote:
> A final note:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2014-April/008977.html
>
> That message talks about the Eaton Nova AVR which on the Eaton 5E
> product page it says the 5E replaces the Nova. Do they perhaps share
> hardware/firmware?
> Thanks,
> Leith Bade
> leith at leithalweapon.geek.nz
>
>
> On 10 August 2014 10:16, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 26, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Leith Bade <leith at leithalweapon.geek.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> First the beeper is annoying and loud and I worry it will wake everyone up at night. I read that you can mute the beeper temporarily (and this works) but that most UPSs do not allow you to permanently turn it off (I tried using upsrw but it said beeper.status was read only).
>>
>> Can you send the variable list of upsrw and the command list of upsc for reference? I don't have any information on the 5E.
>>
>> I think there should be "beeper.mute" and "beeper.off" commands.
>>
>>> So is there a way to auto-mute the beeper? e.g on system boot or on power failure?
>>
>> That is an interesting point - we have scripting for power failures, but not for startup.
>>
>>> Next I did some testing and I think I have a power race (is that the right term?). Basically if I switch off the AC, wait for battery to drain and the system to shutdown and turn off (the PC only so far). If I then turn the AC back on before the ~20 sec delay before the UPS turns off and on again the computer never boots automatically (I have set BIOS to power on after AC back).
>>>
>>> If I let the UPS turn off before I turn AC back on the computer will boot automatically.
>>>
>>> I think the problem is that either the UPS is now power cycling the load when AC is on and it reboots, or it is not turning it off for long enough for the PSU/computer to register this as a AC off and on event.
>>
>> It's probably the latter, but if you don't hear the relay in the first case, that's a problem.
>>
>>> When the UPS reboots it beeps and I can hear a relay click so it must do something when it reboots with power on.
>>>
>>> How can I add a delay between UPS power off, and power on?
>>
>> The output of upsrw will confirm this, but many HID UPSes have separate timers for delay before shutdown, and delay before turn-on (ups.delay.start).
>>
>> --
>> Charles Lepple
>> clepple at gmail
>>
>>
>>