As I said... I would like you to examine the output of upsc. Presumably: upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(you might want to come up with a shorter synonym for this UPS) I would need to see what, if any, variables are reported, and how, if at all, they change over time (e.g. as you plug/unplug the UPS, as the battery level changes, when the battery gets low, etc). -- Peter Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > OK Peter > > upsdrvctl start produces > > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.1.0 > Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.1.0) > > Detected a UPS: Richcomm Tech /UPS2004 > Using subdriver: RICHCOMM HID 0.9 > > upsd produces > > Network UPS Tools upsd 2.1.0 > Connected to UPS [Gamatronic_D-Compact]: Gamatronic_D-Compact > Synchronizing..........done > > Whats next? > > Eli=20 > > On Saturday, 17 =D7=91June 2006 20:00, Peter Selinger wrote: > > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > Firstly forget about my link comment. I misread something. > > > > > > I get the same results if I ups.conf contains > > > > > > [Gamatronic_D-Compact] > > > driver=3D newhidups > > > port =3D auto > > > desc =3D "Gamatronic D-Compact" > > > > > > running > > > > > > newhidups -DD -u root -x vendorid=3D0925 -a Gamatronic_D-Compact > > > > > > produces > > > > > > Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.1.0) > > > > > > Error: UPS [Gamatronic_D-Compact] is for driver , but I'm newhidups! > > > > Please put a space between "driver" and "=3D". I don't know why this > > matters, but apparently it does. NUT thinks that your driver is called > > "" (the empty string), hence the weird error messages. > > > > NUT developers: perhaps parseconf.c should be changed to be more > > flexible regarding white space, or the fact that the "=3D" must be > > surrounded by spaces should be documented? I am surprised this error > > is not more common. Or did I miss something? > > > > -- Peter > _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

