[Nut-upsuser] upsonic IRT1000 on ubuntu 14.04lts

[Charles Lepple]

On Nov 12, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Klint Gore <kgore4 at une.edu.au> wrote:

> -----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.  

Looking back, it was probably the leading "0x" on the vendorID. The drivers perform a regex match on all of the USB parameters, even the ones that are hex numbers.

> 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

Those are some interesting voltages :-)

There are some parameters you can tweak in blazer_usb:

http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/blazer_usb.html

and they also exist in nutdrv_qx:

http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/nutdrv_qx.html

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail