[Nut-upsuser] upsonic IRT1000 on ubuntu 14.04lts

[Klint Gore]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:12 AM
>
>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"


That worked.  

root at merino:/etc/nut# upsc upsonicRT1000 at localhost
Init SSL without certificate database
battery.voltage: 2.28
battery.voltage.high: -1.08
battery.voltage.low: -0.87
device.type: ups
driver.name: blazer_usb
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.version: 2.7.1
driver.version.internal: 0.10
input.frequency: 50.0
input.voltage: 247.0
input.voltage.fault: 120.0
output.voltage: 240.0
ups.beeper.status: enabled
ups.delay.shutdown: 30
ups.delay.start: 180
ups.load: 21
ups.productid: 0000
ups.status: OL
ups.temperature: 32.0
ups.type: online
ups.vendorid: ffff


>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"

Yes, for ubuntu 14.04 it's in /lib/udev/rules.d.
#  Ablerex 625L USB  - blazer_usb
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.

I plugged it in before installing ubuntu on the vague hope that it would detect it 
and install it itself.  In finding out which usb device it was, I unplugged it, ran 
lsusb, replugged it, ran lsusb again.  So I tried it both ways.  I've also rebooted
the machine since installing nut so that may have contributed.

Klint.