Nothing?
Wow . . .
- Tim
On December 4, 2024 3:03:41 PM EST, Tim Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Once again, I am attempting to refine NUT support for my older
>(Eaton)Powerware Prestige 9 UPS units.
>
>The issue is that the BCMXCP driver currently in NUT, optimistically assumes
>that everything in the XCP protocol document (C1 - as in the NUT archives) is
>available on all units, and that (even stated in the doc) is not the case.
>For instance, the "Extended" block is stated to have 31 (max) bytes in the doc
>- my units offer 18 - and (not sure how/why yet) NUT tries to get values for
>unsupported values, and instead of seeing that it ran off the array, it is
>reading ??? and giving garbage values that corrupt some calculations and the
>plot ranges in upsimage.cgi. (And example are the max and min supported
>voltages . . . ).
>
>So, while not asking for any help with that (since these are quite old), what
>I was wondering is if the NUT team managed to get a hold of any more of the
>old Exide/Eaton/Powerware XCP spec docs. What is there mentions referring to
>the specific documentation for a given UPS for it's XCP implementation, and if
>that can be found, it would be a darn sight easier than trying to reverse
>engineer everything. (What I do get seems OK for the better part, but some
>values that *should* be supported seem to get nonsensical values, making me
>wonder what/if might be different in these units.).
>
>Any pointers or docs are welcome! (I've had to beat on this driver enough to
>get it working well, that I am good with "tweaking" it myself at this point .
>. . ).
>
>Oh, and this is bcmxcp on serial . . .
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Tim
>
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