Citeren Peter Werner <[email protected]>:
I have been trying to figure out the whole day how I can connect our old
Trust UPS Energy Protector 400VA with nut. But I have not made any
progress yet and the worst is: I have no idea where to start although I read
the documentation and search the web.
My first problem is how to find out which driver I should take because
this UPS is not in the compatibility list. The second issue is that
it seems to
be that every UPS has either a serial or a usb connection in order
to communicate
to the PC - but our old UPS has none. There are only power plug ins - and
that is it.
In that case, you can't monitor it. It isn't possible, because the
maker of this device didn't provide an interface for monitoring.
You'll only find this limitation on the rock bottom low priced devices
and yours presumably is.
As far as I understand that UPS stuff - and I have not already told you
that I am newbie with UPS ;-) it is some kind of contact closure device.
Even those devices will be equipped with a monitoring port and
generally, this will be a DB-9 connector that connects to a RS-232
port (sometimes via a specially wired cable). But if there is not
port, you're out of luck.
It using the power connection to tell the PC if the power is low.
There are plans to do this (powerline communication) but as far as I
know, there is no manufacturer of PC power supplies that supports
this. It is a great idea, that would do away with a lot of headaches
for signaling the power state, but so far this has never gone beyond
great ideas. In any case, NUT can't help you with this.
So that
means I should try the genericups driver if I understand right.
Not at all. Even that one needs a serial port (I'm quite sure that is
written somewhere in the documentation as well, but you seem to have
missed that).
Best regards, Arjen
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