Thank you sir, I really appreciate your assistance.
One reason though that I like NUT is the expanded UPS data available
compared to the built-in that Apple has. OS X tends to give you percent of
battery, and that's in for info. Nothing more available. And no remote
monitoring either. And no way (as in my case) to have two systems on one
UPS share shutdowns.
I have another OS X box on a different APC UPS, I'll try that on 2.0.2 - how
would I tell it had "stolen" the interface? As I recall it did get the
serial number and model numbers...
Thanks again
Ted
Charles Lepple writes:
On 1/7/06, Ted Bardusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is all on the exact same machine, yes. The libusb is from
darwinports, looks like 0.1.10a_1
On 2.0.2 of NUT the driver connected, but had no awareness of an APC
(as the docs state, newhidups on 2.0.2 only knew about MGE). 2.0.3
however fails to "steal" the USB connection from the default USB UPS
handler in OS X as the 2.0.2 version did. Exact same machine, only
difference is the newer version of NUT (latest download of 2.0.3).
Hmm, then the question in my mind is whether 2.0.2 really did claim
the UPS, or if you just found a corner case where it got some generic
USB information, but didn't actually do any HID transactions.
The thing is, although the libhid docs say to claim the interface
first, you can sometimes still do other operations on the device. If
the OS power management routines see your UPS, though, chances are
that those other operations are going to interfere with what the OS is
doing.
On OS X, with supported UPSes (APC, MGE, possibly others), the
solution might be to connect to the power management routines, and
avoid the whole "steal the USB interface" dilemma. I'll look into that
later.
For now, a quicker solution might be to create a stub driver that
prevents the HID toolbox from claiming the device. I'll try and dig up
that code later today.
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