[Nut-upsuser] Overriding battery.runtime.low

[Peter Bishop]

I have an APC BR1500GI and want to run my devices for the longest possible period. Consequently I want to use the battery.runtime.low setting, sufficient to allow my devices to shutdown. The APC has a setting of 5 minutes for this purpose but I want to change this to 10 minutes, so have added the “override.battery.runtime.low = 600” setting to the ups.conf file. However, this override doesn’t appear to be causing the NUT setup to initiate a shutdown.

Does the “override.battery.runtime.low” work for this purpose or does it just change the value being displayed by upsc? If it’s the latter, is there a way to achieve the override for the low battery setting? For testing purposes I changed this value to “2500”, switched off the mains, and monitored the “battery.runtime” value. It dropped below “2500” (and remained there) but the “battery is low” message was never generated.

Required information:

                OS: Linux **** 5.4.83+ #1379 Mon Dec 14 13:06:05 GMT 2020 armv6l GNU/Linux
                NUT version: 2.7.4-8
                NUT installation: package
                UPS: APC BR1500GI

Thanks.
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