[Nut-upsuser] Install problems (group permissions) with nut 2.7.2

[Rob Groner]

Well, having spent a decent amount of time trying to get my driver file added into the Makefile build system (and failing), I've decided that for now, simply adding that one line to the openups-hid.c file and recompiling is the best route to go.  When I can no longer live with the limited nature of the openups-hid driver, I'll revisit writing our own.

Thanks  for the helps.

Sincerely,
Rob Groner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 8:10 PM
> To: Rob Groner
> Cc: nut-upsuser List
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Install problems (group permissions) with nut
> 2.7.2
> 
> On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote:
> 
> > The quickest way to get my UPS running with nut (as the current release
> exists) is to either:
> >
> > 1)      Add my vendor and device ID to the openups_usb_device_table  OR
> > 2)      Create my own driver file, and then add that driver to the usbhid-ups
> subdriver_list
> >
> > And then recompile/install.
> >
> Correct.
> 
> For posterity, here's the discussion thread from last March:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.devel/6669
> 
> I may not have been clear then, but the changes to the driver/*.c files will
> definitely require a recompile/install of at least the usbhid-ups driver.
> 
> If you are looking for something more turnkey, you may want to consider
> building packages for a few of the common distributions. It has been on my
> TODO list for some time to gather the instructions on how to do this from all
> of the various mailing list posts, but the information is out there.
> 
> --
> Charles Lepple
> clepple at gmail
> 
>