Hello, first of all I'd like to thank all the NUT developers for their gorgeous work and for their efforts to make NUT the best and most complete UPS management software I've ever seen (seriously).
Secondarily I'd like to help the NUT project as far as my help is needed, I'm not a programmer (by now...) but I would like to help somehow anyway. I have 3 UPS from the same manufacturer by now, the Mustek PowerMust 1000VA Plus, PowerMust 800VA Pro and PowerMust 600VA USB and the first two of these are listed in the NUT's compatibility page as "full compatible" using the "megatec" driver: in fact they perfectly work. I would like to report that also the third one is compatible using the megatec driver, both via RS232 and via USB port. So I hope it could be inserted in the compatibility page. The only thing that's "strange" is that the driver report a 97.5% battery charge status also if the UPS is at full charge (it's attached to power network by several days without interruption), as you can see here: battery.charge: 97.5 battery.voltage: 13.60 battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0 driver.name: megatec driver.parameter.mfr: Mustek driver.parameter.model: PowerMust_600VA_USB driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2 driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0 driver.parameter.serial: 001 driver.version: 2.2.1- driver.version.internal: 1.5.13 input.frequency: 50.1 input.voltage: 225.0 input.voltage.fault: 225.0 input.voltage.maximum: 231.3 input.voltage.minimum: 217.1 output.voltage: 225.0 output.voltage.nominal: 220.0 ups.beeper.status: enabled ups.delay.shutdown: 0 ups.delay.start: 2 ups.load: 35.0 ups.mfr: Mustek ups.model: PowerMust_600VA_USB ups.serial: 001 ups.status: OL ups.temperature: 25.0 And more, my syslog daemon sometimes (rarely, luckily) report a "lost connection with UPS" followed by a "reconnected" status, here's a few log lines: Dec 22 15:09:00 <ServerName> upsd[5608]: Data for UPS [PowerMust600USB] is stale - check driver Dec 22 15:09:00 <ServerName> upsd[5608]: UPS [PowerMust600USB] data is no longer stale the problem above happens, more or less, one time every 4 or 5 days of NUT monitoring and it happens 5 or 6 times consecutively in half an hour. Then, I can't see those log lines any more for another 4/5 days. I don't know if it's a "normal" behaviour or not, so I wrote here, mainly to report that NUT works with this new UPS, but also to signal this strange behaviour :) The UPS is connected via serial RS232 cable (included in packaging, I think it is a standard RS232 cable) to an Ubuntu v8.04.2-server machine, kernel 2.6.24-22, and NUT is at version 2.2.1 (the one present in the official Canonical repositories). I hope these informations are useful and I am completely disposable to report any other information (such as my configuration files) and to make debug of the driver with the appropriate guidelines by the NUT developers. Thank you again, hope you have had a nice and happy Christmas with your families :) -- Fr3ddie [email protected] Home Page: http://www.fr3ddie.it OpenPGP Public Key available on my website _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
