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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">I have a Gentoo linux (OpenRC) desktop connected to a UPS, the brand is Vultech, but lsusb gives me this:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">and I found an article about this hardware here, someone had it working with the richcomm_usb driver:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://verahill.blogspot.it/2012/12/kstar-australia-1500-va-ups-on-debian.html">http://verahill.blogspot.it/2012/12/kstar-australia-1500-va-ups-on-debian.html</a><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">So, I installed nut and configured my UPS to work with the richcomm_usb driver, and everything seems to work all right:</div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">service upsdrv start<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">* Starting UPS drivers ...<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.4<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">Network UPS Tools - Richcomm dry-contact to USB driver 0.04 (2.7.4)<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">Warning: This is an experimental driver.<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">Some features may not function correctly.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">upsc vultech<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">device.mfr: Richcomm dry-contact to USB solution<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">device.model: UPS USB MON V1.4<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">device.serial: unknown<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">device.type: ups<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">driver.name: richcomm_usb<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">driver.parameter.port: auto<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">driver.parameter.synchronous: no<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">driver.version: 2.7.4<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">driver.version.internal: 0.04<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">ups.mfr: Richcomm dry-contact to USB solution<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">ups.model: UPS USB MON V1.4<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">ups.productid: 1234<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">ups.serial: unknown<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">ups.status: OB<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">ups.vendorid: 0925<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><b>EXCEPT for one tiny detail which you see above - ups.status: OB</b><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">In fact my UPS is connected just fine to a perfectly working power supply, so it should be OL, not OB.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">But what is worse is that a couple of minutes after having started the upsdrv the OB become OB BL and then the driver does what it should do if the UPS were really offline and if the battery really were low, i.e. it sends my system into a graceful shutdown. <br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">So, is this a hardware problem with my UPS ? Or is it a configuration problem? How could I debug this?</div>
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<div class="signature">  Michele<br></div>
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