On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:49:08PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently bought an Advice e-Pro 500. I downloaded from their site
> upsmon.tar which seems to work, but I'd rather use nut. nut does not
> seem to work with it.
> strace on their's shows that after some ioctls it writes to the UPS
> "Q1\r" many times, each time reading after writing, some of the reads
> return info. nut, on the other hand, after doing some ioctls (didn't
> check if they are the same), writes "\1", and does 'read' which does
> not return (and it timeouts). My ups.conf is
> [epro]
> driver = powercom
> port = /dev/ttyS0
> desc = "pinkys UPS"
> type = "KIN2200AP"
> and the command I tried is 'upsdrvctl start'.
> 
> What do you think? Is anyone here uses Advice? Do you use their software
> or nut (or something else)?


  I use the nut with an older Advice ups. It looks like your ups uses
another communication protocol then what the powercom driver is designed
for. The command "Q1\r" might be a hint to a completely different
communication protocol. You might try other drivers. If you want a
better way then trying all the nut drivers you might look at the source
of the drivers or google for something like `Q1\r ups'.
  Have you tried asking Advice?
-- 
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you and I will still each have  one apple. But  if you have an idea and I
have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw     (sent by  shaulk @ actcom . net . il)

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