[Nut-upsuser] nut on armhf, r-pi4b IOW

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 21 January 2020 22:51:05 Charles Lepple wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2020, at 10:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 January 2020 19:52:01 Charles Lepple wrote:
> >> sudo lsusb -v -d 0764:0501
> >
> > copious output, containing this:
> >  idVendor           0x0764 Cyber Power System, Inc.
> >  idProduct          0x0501 CP1500 AVR UPS
> >  bcdDevice            0.01
> >  iManufacturer           3 CPS
> >  iProduct                1 CP625HGa
> >
> > I take it that this is evidence they don't follow the spec to the
> > letter.
>
> It's one of their lesser transgressions :-)
>
> Bear in mind that the usb.ids file is a composite of the official
> company names (for idVendor, probably grabbed from usb.org documents)
> and idProduct values observed in the wild. If Cyber Power chooses to
> reuse the idProduct 0x501 across all of their models in that class,
> that's fine, as long as their HID descriptors report any actual data
> format differences.

Which it appears to do.
 
Thanks Charles.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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