Citeren Snoopy Great <[email protected]>: > Well, the value should not be static, could it be a data parsing error ?
No. > 1. Manuel has the same ups model, and the charge level showed by nut is not > constant. However he seems to be running the initial version from svn. Maybe he read the man page for this driver (or was advised by someone on this list) to setup the 'battvolts' parameter for this UPS. If you didn't configure that, chances are that it will always report 100% charge, since it might fail to determine the battery low and high levels. The UPS doesn't report these and the driver may fail to correctly guess them. See the man page where this is explained. > 2. I have 2 identical UPS, I think it's quite improbable that both are > defective and send a constant value for both charge level and voltage. The UPS doesn't report the charge level, the Megatec/Q1 protocol doesn't have support for that (yet). It can only report battery voltage at the moment. From that, a charge is estimated. Since this only uses the reported battery voltage, this is notoriously unreliable. > 3. The original ups software seems to show variable values for those > parameters, but this point I'll have to test a little later (the ups is in > production, and it's a little harder to > make experiments changing the software and/or disconnecting the main power > supply to force ups in OB mode). > > Is there any chance something else changed between Manuel's version and mine > that could explain the misreading ? NUT version? It might also help to upgrade to the latest NUT version and try out the 'blazer_ser' driver. Make sure to read the man page for it, since in some cases it needs some help in setting the right parameters for your UPS. If you feed it the right parameters, it will also do a much better job in guesstimating charge left while running on battery. And looking at the data you provided, it will at least do a better job in determining the number of cells in the battery. Best regards, Arjen -- Please keep list traffic on the list _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
