Re: [Nut-upsuser] USB UPS and FreeBSD

2006-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in ups.conf. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpxx246AJg6t.pgp

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut issue or MGE issue?

2006-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
any help: 20060523 153139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA Looks like you may have specifed the UPS to upslog incorrectly or upsd isn't running. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: [Nut-upsuser] USB UPS and FreeBSD

2006-05-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that later, the chmod/chown was just for testing :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Question about slave shutdown

2006-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to the slave. Perhaps something is wrong with my configuration. What shall I do? Any help is greatly appreciated ! It would help if you supplied your configuration... Is upsmon running on the slave? Does it connect to the master upsd? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Recommended UPS to buy for use with NUT?

2006-06-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
- specifying a run time for which the batteries are completely depleted is dumb because this will damage the battery = less lifetime = pissed off users. I switched from APC to MGE to see if they are any better in this regard.. I'll find out soon.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar Extreme communication problems

2006-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and libusb 0.1.12. I will try and find time to try RS232 again - I think an IRQ issue was causing problems before Thanks! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar Extreme communication problems

2006-06-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 16 June 2006 21:03, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I didn't get around to trying serial today but hopefully I will be able to test it RSN. I'll keep you in mind as I test ;) Serial works so I am less stressed now - I have a fallback position :) I am going to try making the newhidups code

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar Extreme communication problems

2006-06-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80383 Ahh but I don't have uhid loaded so no blacklisting is needed.. I can talk to the UPS just fine but I can't set anything (getting reports works, setting them returns EIO from ugen) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: [Nut-upsuser] choosing a UPS (in the United States)

2006-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
- maybe they're better. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] choosing a UPS (in the United States)

2006-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, and the MGE Puslar Extreme. I would buy an MGE Nova over a Belkin though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

Re: [Nut-upsuser] choosing a UPS (in the United States)

2006-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hardware though - occasionally the switch mode power supplies in our DAQ rack don't come up properly. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Will MGE-UPS Ellipse USBS auto shutdown?

2006-08-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ondelay and offdelay... Note that ondelay is units of 10 seconds whereas offdelay is in seconds. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Will MGE-UPS Ellipse USBS auto shutdown?

2006-08-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the system time to finish shutting down after it has told the UPS to power off. (As well as ensuring it does power cycle the load if the AC comes back before the UPS is off) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Will MGE-UPS Ellipse USBS auto shutdown?

2006-08-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
systems re-mount disks read only at shutdown (eg FreeBSD runs shutdown procedures then the kernel flushes and un-mounts the disks) As for ondelay/offdelay having the same value - NUT disallows it and makes sure that ondelay is longer. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Powerdown on FreeBSD

2006-08-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
like my FreeBSD systems to shutdown gracefully. You could patch FreeBSD to unmount disks and then run a script as part of shutdown 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Slightly OT: Generators UPS

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
conversion UPS :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Slightly OT: Generators UPS

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Probably not quite the same amount of isolation but a lot lighter, cheaper and smaller :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: [Nut-upsuser] (Fwd) Re: Slightly OT: Generators UPS

2006-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to poor power. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpM34IPWngUs.pgp

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Unable to open /dev/cuad0: Device busy

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 12 October 2006 11:22, ahgu wrote: Anyone know what is the problem for this? Find out what is using that serial port? fstat or lsof can probably tell you what process has it open. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Calibrating the Battery on an MGE Ellipse Premium 1200

2006-11-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, the more you lower it the more damage the battery will take each discharge. Battery technology still sucks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. For the time being, I have to buy another pci/serial card... I could never get FreeBSD to talk to the UPS via USB :( It would fail to send any commands so it couldn't shut the UPS down (or set anything). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 27 November 2006 10:20, Vladimir Botka wrote: here are my notes on ups, usb and freebsd. http://www.netng.org/bin/view/Main/NetworkUpsToolsUsb I found I could read status OK (MGE Pulsar Extreme) but I could not set any variables so I couldn't shut the UPS down. -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Fwd: NUT on FreeBSD

2007-02-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of /var/spool/lock are what matter here, try creating a nut user and putting it in the dialer group, then tell NUT to run as that user (otherwise it setuid's to nobody) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Fwd: NUT on FreeBSD

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ports then make sure gd is installed and run NUT's configure like so.. env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure .. and it should find it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Nova AVR 600 USB on FreeBSD

2007-02-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
success but the author was responsive (I just haven't had time to try the newest patches yet). http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/usb4bsd/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Nova AVR 600 USB on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
password [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Nova AVR 600 USB on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
upsrw (starts with entering setvar... Hmm I just tried this and I can't find 'entering setvar' in the output :( Maybe I've done something stupid..? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT and MGE Ellipse ASR 1500 under FreeBSD.

2007-05-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and they work fine though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT and MGE Ellipse ASR 1500 under FreeBSD.

2007-05-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
though. Unfortunatelly, I have only one serial port on this box, which is used as a console now. The only chance to add another serial is usb-com adapter. If you want reliable comms it's probably the only way to do it for now. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Where to buy a db9 serial port probe

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
adapters plus a cable on a UPS bothers me greatly). I'm not looking for anything fancy, just a little gender changer with a buncha LEDs on it. I suggest buying a multimeter, some wire and 2 D9 connectors, then you can use the multimeter to probe the wires to find what is going on. -- Daniel

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD rc.d scripts or shutdown howto?

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Patrick Agrain wrote: Hello, I've found the same behavior on RHES 4.5 with nut-2.2.0. What you explain below isn't what happens for FreeBSD. The file systems are not unmounted except for when init exits (nor are they remounted read only or anything like that) -- Daniel

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD rc.d scripts or shutdown howto?

2007-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have it now, so I might just leave it. The port is now at 2.0.5, still rather ancient :( Presumably the maintainer hasn't had the time to update it recently.. It shouldn't be too hard to update the port though, I will see if I can find some time to do it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD rc.d scripts or shutdown howto?

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Bryan wrote: On 22/08/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you aren't using the port then.. It installs /usr/ports/sysutils/nut/files/nut*.sh.in (after replacing certain items). So it does! I've now found those files (just where you said) still

Re: [Nut-upsuser] lost USB comms under FreeBSD

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
documented too. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: [Nut-upsuser] lost USB comms under FreeBSD

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Charles Lepple wrote: On 8/22/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Charles Lepple wrote: NUT drivers poll the UPS every so often, which works fine on systems where a single libusb call results in a single USB transaction. In FreeBSD

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD rc.d scripts or shutdown howto?

2007-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Bryan wrote: On 22/08/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just use RS232 ports and be done with it - I don't know how to track down the problem is :( A shame it has to come down to that -- but I believe I have indeed reached then end of the road for all

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ever hear of Robanton?

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
trap it for inclusion. You can use watch to monitor a TTY. Ktrace, strace can be used to monitor a process. Portmon is here BTW - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/Portmon.mspx -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut 2.2.0 doesn't see MGE Elipse 1200 on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to be dropped it should a) log the fact, and b) do it in a way that doesn't cause the UPS driver to get out of sync. ugen should really be fixed to not use clist buffers but that can wait for another day :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut 2.2.0 doesn't see MGE Elipse 1200 on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
if the battery starts to show that it is discharging. The last time I tried this, it would get the initial data but never change until the driver was reloaded (not all that useful in that state). The problem in my experience is that it is not reliable :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut 2.2.0 doesn't see MGE Elipse 1200 on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
like to work with us on improving ugen/libusb/nut, and get a unit to develop and test with, I can do something... We're getting another MGE UPS soon at work so I will be able to test the patch to ugen I wrote a while ago. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

[Nut-upsuser] Outlet switching on the MGE Pulsar 1500 using usbhid-ups on FreeBSD

2007-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
battery level OK though (and then shut my PC down by mistake :) so I can actually set values.. Is it just that usbhid-ups doesn't support outlet switching? (yet hopefully :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Outlet switching on the MGE Pulsar 1500 using usbhid-ups on FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Ahah, thanks! Works great. Now to get the devd script working so start NUT when I plug it in :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT + devd + FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Charles Lepple wrote: On 10/29/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the following devd script.. That's pretty intense, but it's a nice reuse of the udev data. Hey, machines exist to do work for us, not the other way around ;) Although IMO a source file

Re: [Nut-upsuser] problem with Mustek UPS - Freebsd

2008-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ugen[0-9]+; match vendor 0x0463; match product 0x; action chown uucp /dev/$device-name*; chmod 660 /dev/$device-name*; }; -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: [Nut-upsuser] problem with Mustek UPS - Freebsd

2008-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it into a devd script but I am not sure if it's going into NUT or the NUT port or what.. In any case the devd script was only for USB UPSs so not an issue for you I think. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can I use NUT to set UPS parameters?

2008-06-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
drawn) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

[Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar EX1500 RT comms problem

2008-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
be adjusted to be more tolerant. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar EX1500 RT comms problem

2008-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(rarely enough to be usable though). -- Arnaud 2008/7/22 Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have the above UPS connected to a FreeBSD 6.2 box and it shows 'data stale' very frequently (every few minutes). I have tried the usual trick of setting maxage, poll interval, etc etc

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Back-UPS ES 700 under FreeBSD

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for a specific device - libusb also needs /dev/usb* to find them :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

[Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD usbhid-ups problem

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
! No appropriate HID device found upsdrv_updateinfo... Got to reconnect! I've made sure NUT libusb are up to date (2.2.2 0.1.12_2 respectively) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD usbhid-ups problem

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
so the perms stay at.. crw-rw 1 nutmon operator0, 100 Aug 7 17:49 /dev/ugen0 crw-rw 1 nutmon operator0, 162 Aug 7 17:49 /dev/ugen0.1 but it still fails :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD usbhid-ups problem

2008-08-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
just a matter of securing things. There is a (small) benefit in running them as different users. OK that's what I thought :) What was the result after running the driver as root (add '-u root' to the 'upsdrvctl' commandline)? I tried that but no change :( -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD usbhid-ups problem

2008-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Arnaud Quette wrote: Hey there, 2008/8/25 Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Arjen de Korte wrote: Are the 'usbhid-ups' (driver) and 'upsd' (server) also running as 'nutmon'? We recommend that they run as a different user than the 'upsmon

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar EX over serial problem (FreeBSD)

2008-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
errors :( I've attached some logs. I added the 'unknown byte x' stuff - I wanted to see what it was throwing away :) Does anyone have such a UPS working with NUT + RS232? I'll try to do some test asap on an EX 1500. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar EX over serial problem (FreeBSD)

2008-11-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
names change slightly :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar EX over serial problem (FreeBSD)

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, but if I can't reproduce it again, I'll possibly need an access to one of the faulty unit (is it possible?). Hmm I doubt it :( I could certainly run test programs and generate comms logs for you. The problematic units are not owned by us - we maintain them for our customers. -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD usbhid-ups problem

2009-01-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:56:43 Daniel O'Connor wrote: you might want to have libusb debug trace also, to see more low level things. use export USB_DEBUG=3 before launching usbhid-ups. you might also have a look at your kernel output for ugen to see if there is a problem here. Hmm

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD usbhid-ups problem

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
although I haven't tried a full shutdown or anything yet. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Need help identifying UPS for use with NUT

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
suggest you may need the dtr, rts sendpace parameters before it will work. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Cyberpower Value 600E UPS (USB) is not recognized by usbhid-ups under FreeBSD 7.2

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
line 115) for the vendor/id of your UPS. I think you also need to add an entry to /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs for the UPS itself. That requires a kernel rebuild BTW. If you give me the output of 'usbdevs -v' I can whip up a quick patch. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Cyberpower Value 600E UPS (USB) is not recognized by usbhid-ups under FreeBSD 7.2

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: The actual fix is to add an entry in the blacklist for uhid devices in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c (around line 115) for the vendor/id of your UPS. I think you also need to add an entry to /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs for the UPS itself

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Cyberpower Value 600E UPS (USB) is not recognized by usbhid-ups under FreeBSD 7.2

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
UPS class HID devices.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Cyberpower Value 600E UPS (USB) is not recognized by usbhid-ups under FreeBSD 7.2

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on the compatibility page (http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html) that using CyberPower with FreeBSD requires patching the kernel. Better to get it committed to FreeBSD. I have sent a PR with the patch in it so it should be committed. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Cannot get Tripplite su2200xla working on freebsd 7.1 nut 2.4.1

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uhid. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description

Re: [Nut-upsuser] networkupstools.org domain

2009-09-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Eaton PW5110 + nut-2.4.1 + OpenBSD

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, and I think OpenBSD might use a similar USB stack. I believe they both use a ported version of the NetBSD USB stack, try adding pollonly to your UPS config entry, it (mostly) worked for me. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Old fashion UPS monitoring

2010-03-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
are connected to which event. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problem w/ Belkin UPS on FreeBSD

2010-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
; match product 0x0751; action /bin/chown nutmon: /dev/$device-name; } (then unplug/replug the UPS to see if it did it) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problem w/ Belkin UPS on FreeBSD

2010-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 25/09/2010, at 16:36, Daniel O'Connor wrote: You can do this by putting a file into /usr/local/etc/devd which looks like.. notify 100 { match vendor 0x050d; match product 0x0751; action /bin/chown nutmon: /dev/$device-name; } Oops I should have tested it :) Try

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problem using an Eaton Ellipse ASR 750 VA on FreeBSD

2011-03-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
stack in 8.x For a quick test try.. sudo chown :uucp /dev/usb/4.2.* Then retry starting NUT. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problem using an Eaton Ellipse ASR 750 VA on FreeBSD

2011-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

[Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-07-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
anyone know if this is possible? A setting like this would provide some hysteresis for successive power failures which would be handy to have :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of NUT are you using? There might be a newmge-shut driver included as well. It's quite old - 2.4.1. I could try 2.6.4 though, I will need to reconnect the hardware though (the EX 11 takes up quite a bit of space :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
using? There might be a newmge-shut driver included as well. I tried mge-shut in 2.6 with no change, but newmge-shut with 2.6 showed this parameter, thanks! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au a écrit : On 27/07/2012, at 17:36, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 21/07/2012, at 22:55, Charles Lepple wrote: Does anyone know if this is possible? A setting like this would provide some hysteresis for successive power failures which would be handy to have

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-08-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 27/07/2012, at 17:36, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 21/07/2012, at 22:55, Charles Lepple wrote: Does anyone know if this is possible? A setting like this would provide some hysteresis for successive power failures which would be handy to have :) I don't know about that specific

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
' called around the end of the halt script, once HD are in RO mode, or just before? Just before, the script is called during shutdown but everything is still RW. FreeBSD does not remount things RO and run some scripts, hence the offdelay/ondelay being relatively large. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-08-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
off, 2) check that battery.charge.restart variable is available on this unit, and behaving correctly (Ie, if set to 30, the UPS will restart only once battery.charge reaches 30 %). Thanks very much! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-08-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it seems it's already enabled, ie [dhcp-72114 13:22] ~/nut-2.6.4 upsc ups1@localhost | grep ups.shu ups.shutdown: enabled I set it anyway, and the test seems to have worked - the load now goes off soon after the PC shuts off and waits until the battery charges. Thanks! -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS restart delay

2012-08-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the installation can run another test. Have a good holiday :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Smart UPS C1000

2012-09-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
version of NUT do you have installed? Running 'upsc -h' should show the version, eg.. [midget 10:55] ~ upsc -h Network UPS Tools upsc 2.6.4-Unversioned directory usage: upsc -l | -L [hostname[:port]] snip -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Smart UPS C1000

2012-09-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
2 and I am pretty sure you got the answer to 1 wrong :-/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Smart UPS C1000

2012-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
based on FreeBSD (and it makes a difference especially for USB related matters). Can you paste the output of dmesg and usbconfig with the UPS connected please? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Smart UPS C1000

2012-09-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. From: Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au To: cmb...@comcast.net Cc: Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com, nut-upsuser nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:47:40 PM Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Smart UPS C1000 On 05/09

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Zigor Ebro 650 compatibility

2012-09-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
designed :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Zigor Ebro 650 compatibility

2012-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
configure script). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Zigor Ebro 650 compatibility

2012-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
library does 0.1 and 1.0) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPSSCHED and FreeBSD 8.3?

2013-01-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
know about the environment used - if it is very restrictive the mail executable might not be found. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Resetting replace battery status on Pulsar 1500

2014-05-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 28 May 2014, at 10:54, Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com wrote: On May 26, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: However if I do either of the tests upscmd just reports 'OK' and nothing happens. Anything in syslog? Not that I can see :( What would log it? I could try running

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT + devd + FreeBSD

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18 Jul 2014, at 22:41, Charles Lepple clep...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 9:45 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: I made the following devd script.. Dusting off this thread, since the FreeBSD ports tree picked up NUT 2.7.2 and now includes an auto-generated nut