On 07/07/2013 10:03 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
On Jul 7, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Alf Høgemark wrote:
Do other NUT users miss knowing exactly how the upsc output will look for a UPS
model ?
Does anyone have opinions on where we could record such information ? Should it
be one page per model, or one page per driver with a section for each model ?
It would be nice to collect this information somehow. At the moment, we only
really have upsc information for the UPS models which have been problematic,
plus a few more emails where users have sent HCL updates.
The exact organization of the content probably doesn't matter, so long as the
output is cross-referenced with a driver. (In the Thinkwiki example, their use
of categories seemed backwards to me at first. However, it is useful to know
whether a given laptop supports a particular feature, and the category listing
at the bottom provides that nicely.)
I would be curious to hear what others think about a wiki or similar
user-editable resource. The NUT HCL was never meant to fill that role, but a
completely free-form wiki might not be as useful as a custom web site. In
either case, we would need to have some decent spam protection. The NUT Trac
instance was hit fairly hard a while ago.
Mike brings up an important point, in that NUT can only relay the information
that the UPS provides. If that information is incorrect, this sort of
repository could flag those variables or instant commands as being improperly
implemented by the UPS.
Perhaps we could do something like those online UPS sizing wizards: ask the
user which features matter most, and show a filtered list of suggested UPS
models.
The biggest issue in my mind is that UPS vendors frequently change things out
under the hood without changing the model name. Sometimes it is for the better
- Powercom shifted to a standard USB HID PDC interface (which was easier to
support in NUT). However, APC apparently dropped support for a lot of variables
from their HID PDC interface in favor of their proprietary Microlink protocol
(see apcupsd.com for more information).
Maybe we can steer people away from bad UPS models or vendors, but in the end,
if I were purchasing a new UPS, I would want a no-questions-asked, open box
refund policy from the distributor.
Alf: I like this idea, but I don't have the free time to help with this for a
while. (We still need to get the first Git-based source release out the door.)
Feel free to take this idea and run with it.
Just to let you know, I am looking at various wiki software, and aim to
set up a wiki where we all can document the output from our different
UPSes with different drivers, I think it will help people who are
looking to buy UPS and want to use it with NUT.
I hope to have the wiki up during October, but cannot promise anything.
Regards
Alf
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