[Nut-upsuser] Can NUT handle a laptop battery?

[Goran Vukoman]

The Pine64 ARM boards have a battery connector, not quite a laptop, but
AFAIK the board will charge and use the battery as fallback if lights
go out.

Am Freitag, dem 07.01.2022 um 10:03 +0100 schrieb Jim Klimov:
> Just to clarify: I don't think there is a NUT driver that would
> consider a computer's local battery as an UPS - probably no-one came
> around to write one, and probably that would be very much OS-
> dependent (more than HW dependent).
> 
> The laptop should be okay as a NUT client (for external NUT servers),
> as well as a NUT server for traditional connections to
> serial/usb/snmp/... UPSes with respective drivers.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 19:03 G <g at odyss3us.net> wrote:
> > Yes, debian or devuan do have support for nut on any arch.
> > 
> > https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/nut
> > 
> > I will play with it to see if I can control via nut an arm laptop.
> > 
> > Am Donnerstag, dem 06.01.2022 um 17:00 +0100 schrieb Matus UHLAR -
> > fantomas:
> > > > On January 6, 2022 2:50:44 PM GMT+02:00, G <g at odyss3us.net>
> > wrote:
> > > > > Can NUT handle an ARM laptop like the pinebook pro?
> > > 
> > > On 06.01.22 17:35, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> > > > It should. I had it running several years on a 2nd generation
> > RPi.
> > > > 
> > > > The real problem is if the distribution of your choice provides
> > > > either a package for nut or the tools (and libraries) to
> > compile it
> > > > yourself.
> > > 
> > > I guess the OP means if the NUT supports using laptop battery as
> > the
> > > UPS.
> > > (I think I made the same mistake some time ago).
> > > 
> > > afaik there is no driver for laptop batteries.
> > > I guess it could run on ACPI data.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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