[Nut-upsuser] upsonic IRT1000 on ubuntu 14.04lts

[Charles Lepple]

On Nov 12, 2014, at 2:49 AM, Klint Gore <kgore4 at une.edu.au> wrote:

> Can someone give me a push in the right direction with this?  I’m trying to get an upsonic IRT1000 to work on ubuntu 14.04lts using the usb connection.   The most likely drivers (blazer_usb and usbhid-ups) don’t seem to recognize it or I’ve got the configuration parameters wrong.  I’ve got no idea what driver it actually wants though there’s an old thread that seems to have got it to work with snmp by adding an snmp card to it.

I suspect it's handled by blazer_usb (or nutdrv_qx, which will eventually supersede the blazer* drivers). My heuristic is that the wDescriptorLength in the lsusb output (47) is too short to be parsed by usbhid-ups (so the UPS probably has a built-in USB-to-serial converter).
 
> config file
> [upsonicRT1000]
>         #driver=blazer_usb
>         driver=usbhid-ups
>         port=auto
>         vendorid=0xffff
>         productid=0000
>         #serial=2
>         #product="1 010937"
>         #vendor=19
>         #explore
>         desc="UPSonic RT1000"

I am surprised that the blazer_usb configuration didn't work. If you leave off the matching options, does this find the UPS?

[upsonicRT1000]
	driver=blazer_usb ## or nutdrv_qx
	port=auto
        desc="UPSonic RT1000"

> as blazer_usb
> root at merino:/tmp/aaa# /lib/nut/blazer_usb -DDDD -a upsonicRT1000
> Network UPS Tools - Megatec/Q1 protocol USB driver 0.10 (2.7.1)
>    0.000000     debug level is '4'
[...]
>    0.259151     Checking device (FFFF/0000) (003/008)
>    0.259177     - VendorID: ffff
>    0.259180     - ProductID: 0000
>    0.259182     - Manufacturer: unknown
>    0.259184     - Product: unknown
>    0.259186     - Serial Number: unknown
>    0.259188     - Bus: 003
>    0.259190     Trying to match device
>    0.259195     Device does not match - skipping

^ Should match here.

I am not sure if the Ubuntu packages include a proper entry for this UPS (since a vendorID of 0xFFFF isn't valid). Can you check to see if there is something like this at the end of /etc/udev/rules.d/*-nut-usbups.rules?

ATTR{idVendor}=="ffff", ATTR{idProduct}=="0000", MODE="664", GROUP="nut"

If so, was the UPS USB cable plugged in before or after the package was installed? I think a lot of the packages are missing a post-install command to reload udev, so the workaround is to plug the USB cable in again after installation.

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Charles Lepple
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