On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:58:17AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Monday 14 June 2004 08:08, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:22:38AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > >   Have you tried asking Advice?
> > 
> > I do not really see a point in this. Since they give the upsmon.tar
> > thing, why should they care about nut? I saw in google that you were
> > involved with this a few years ago. Did you contact them? Did they
> > help?
> 
> 1. Well did they help you? It may interest other list members if this
>    company is "Linux friendly".
> 

I too emailed them today, will report if I get a reply.

They have software for Linux, gratis, but without sources, so they
are more "Linux friendly" than many others, but maybe not enough,
depending on your needs.

For the record: After looking for a few more minutes at the output
of strace, I managed to talk to the UPS with minicom.
grepping nut for "Q1" shows that many drivers use it, and the few I
looked at also get a reply with the same format, so it's not clear
which one to choose. I will try some and report if I have a winner.

> 2. Nut has a sponsoring company (published on its web site) and provides
>    open source and open protocols for their line of UPS. They also
>    have a representative in Israel. Did you check them? Are they more
>    expensive or bad? I am sure want to put *my* money where it counts.
> 

I didn't. I simply bought the cheapest one that seemed ok to me.  Since
I didn't know about nut until after I bought the UPS (I searched only
zap before parchasing), and since Advice has some Linux support
according to their web site, I figured it was good enough.
The Israeli rep does not have a website, only email. Maybe I should
have searched more and contacted them before buying, don't know. Anyone
here bought from them?
-- 
Didi


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