[Nut-upsuser] Unable to set up a "serial-over-USB" UPS (APC BZ2200BI-BR)

[Charles Lepple]

On Mar 20, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Douglas A. Augusto wrote:

> Dear NUT users/developers,
> 
> I'm having trouble while trying to configure the UPS APC BZ2200BI-BR[1] in NUT,
> which despite having a USB cable it apparently communicates using the serial
> protocol.
> 
> The relevant output of 'lsusb' is:
> 
>   Bus 002 Device 004: ID 051d:c812 American Power Conversion


Douglas,

It sounds like you have an UPS which was originally manufactured by Microsol.

   http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/nobreak-bz1200-br-back-ups-rs-1200va-600w-bivolt-115-nt.20247/

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.devel/6685

Bruno,

Does your UPS show up as a USB ACM device in FreeBSD? Do you think that you and Douglas have the same basic UPS with different battery capacities?

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/8443

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Charles Lepple
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