[Nut-upsuser] new mobo, ups doesn't connect

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 08 December 2019 21:48:03 Charles Lepple wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2019, at 7:01 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> > What driver do I now put in /etc/nut/ups.conf? hid-generic doesn't
> > seem to want to talk to it, and the original name _(usbhid-ups)
> > doesn't work from new mobo.  Oh wait, I can't spell. But that didn't
> > help, and a restart gets this error:
>
> ...
>
> > Dec 07 18:49:46 coyote upsd[3259]: Can't connect to UPS [myups]
> > (hidraw-myups): No such file or directory
>
> Hi Gene,
>
> Might be simpler to start with the contents of your /etc/nut/ups.conf
> file?
>
> Mine looks like this:
>
> [apc]
> 	driver = usbhid-ups
> 	port = auto # USB
>
> Yours should probably look similar:
>
> [myups]
> 	driver = usbhid-ups
> 	port = auto # USB
>
> Are you using Debian? I think they split things out a bit in recent
> versions, so the exact NUT restart command might depend on whether you
> are using stretch, or later.
>
> Roger is also onto something with the contents of /var/run/nut. If the
> driver is running, you should see a socket (3rd entry):
>
> $ sudo ls -l /run/nut
> total 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nut  nut  5 Aug 23 09:40 upsd.pid
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Aug 23 09:40 upsmon.pid
> srw-rw---- 1 nut  nut  0 Aug 23 09:40 usbhid-ups-apc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nut  nut  5 Aug 23 09:40 usbhid-ups-apc.pid
>
> If that socket isn't showing up, then we need to figure out why the
> driver isn't starting.
>
> - Charles
The working part:

[myups]
driver=hidraw
#driver=usbhid-ups
#driver=belkin
#driver=belkinunv
#driver=genericups
port=auto
offdelay=120
ondelay=0


The previous belkin used the next commented line down. This is an even 
bigger APC. 

Thanks Charles


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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