Hi, I have recently purchased MGE ellipse 1200 UPS for my home system. Obviously, the choice of this particular brand was mainly dictated by MGE's long-standing support for Linux and NUT project. The fact that the box was clearly the prettiest looking one on the block did help also ;-). I have had NUT tools installed and configured in no time, as I did it numerous times before -- kudos to developers for a brilliant piece of software! Everything worked fine but now I wanted to tune configuration a bit and that's where the surprise came. I was well prepared to the fact that printed documentation that came with the box was pretty much useless. What I was not prepared was the quality of MGE's web site (English-language version). Guys, if you want my advice: FIX IT IMMEDIATELY. Not only the design is awful and it is full of broken links pointing nowhere, but even the minuscule amount of extra documentation that can be found there is written in mostly incomprehensible language (it is supposed to be English I guess), outdated, incomplete and plain wrong in places. This creates a VERY bad image of the company. I understand MGE is mainly targeting on kind of industrial market, but they do sell at least some consumer grade products, don't they? Now, as a consumer I am rather angry at the moment and definitely won't recommend MGE's products to any of my less-techie friends. Ok, getting off the flame mode: I would appreciate if someone from MGE reading this list would take his/her time and tell me what are the "programmable outlets" aka Powershare (TM) feature is and how to actually program it with NUT, if possible? There is absolutely nothing about it to be found anywhere in the documentation. It would also be nice if I could get some comments on the meaning of the MGE-specific items from the driver output listed below.
Thanks, Ivan Some specs: System: ALTLinux Sisyphus (www.altlinux.com), kernel 2.6.16 $ rpm -qa|grep nut-|sort nut-2.0.2-alt3 nut-devel-2.0.2-alt3 nut-driver-2.0.2-alt3 nut-server-2.0.2-alt3 UPS Driver: mge-shut (cable attached to RS-232 port) $ upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] battery.charge: 100 battery.charge.low: 30 battery.runtime: 01715 driver.name: mge-shut driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0 driver.version: 2.0.2 driver.version.internal: 0.64 outlet.0.desc: Main Outlet outlet.0.id: 1 outlet.0.switchable: 0 outlet.1.autoswitch.charge.low: 0 outlet.1.desc: PowerShare Outlet 1 outlet.1.id: 2 outlet.1.switch: 1 outlet.1.switchable: 1 output.voltage: 120 ups.delay.shutdown: -1 ups.delay.start: -1 ups.load: 12 ups.mfr: MGE UPS SYSTEMS ups.model: ellipse 1200 ups.power.nominal: 1200 ups.serial: unknown ups.status: OL CHRG -- Ivan Adzhubey _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
