Hi,

Actually, I just got it working.  I found this thread:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/6546

I downloaded the 2.6.1 source and found the entry I needed to add to 
52-nut-usbups.rules.  I also had to add productid = 0003 to the ups.conf file. 
Seems to be working now.

Are there new features for this the APC SmartUPS G5 that I would benefit from 
by upgrading to 2.6.x?

Thanks,
Steve Boyle


From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:48 PM
To: Steve Boyle
Cc: nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Steve Boyle wrote:


Hi,

I'm trying to install NUT on Ubuntu.  All is good until I try to start the 
driver, then I get this error:
$ sudo upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3)
USB communication driver 0.31
This APC device (051d:0003) is not (or perhaps not yet) supported
by usbhid-ups. Please make sure you have an up-to-date version of NUT. If
this does not fix the problem, try running the driver with the
'-x productid=0003' option. Please report your results to the NUT user's
mailing list 
<nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org<mailto:nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org>>.

No matching HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)


I'm using an APC SmartUPS  1500 VA 120V RM2U, it is connected via USB.  I would 
appreciate any suggestions from the list.  Looks like apt-get install gave me 
version 2.4.3, apt also claims this is the latest version.

APC 5G units with that product ID are supported as of NUT 2.6.0, which is 
available in Ubuntu "natty" and later.

Usually we would encourage you to follow the advice in the error message, and 
add "-x productid=0003" to the command line of the driver, but judging from the 
changes necessary to support these units, I think you would have better luck 
bugging the Ubuntu LTS folks for a backport of the latest version of NUT.
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