Hi, Thanks for all the help. I have a spare pcengines ALIX box lying around and I am going to repurpose that as a dedicated UPS monitoring system.
Regards, Richard On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:27 PM Charles Lepple <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 6, 2015, at 8:46 AM, Richard Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately this approach isn't going to work. > > I've done some further research and it would appear that it is the > underlying ugen device and not libusb that is failing to honor the timeout. > > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-misc/2006/03/17/0000.html > > The person above worked around this by having the device opened in non > blocking mode using the O_NONBLOCK flag but this required changing libusb. > > > Unfortunately, the ugen drivers in Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. are > similarly named, but not necessarily the same code. At least with the > *BSDs, you can inspect the code to see what has changed (and the BSD USB > support has improved significantly across the board since 2006 when that > message was posted). > > OpenUSB seems to work around the blocking issue by creating a separate > timeout thread, so I still think there is some hope there. > > On the other hand, if that doesn't work, I would consider setting up > another system dedicated to monitoring the UPS, and setup NUT on Solaris to > be a client to the other system. Linux on x86_64 is probably the best > supported OS for NUT and a USB UPS, but others have had success with > embedded ARM and MIPS Linux systems. I have a Soekris net5501 running > FreeBSD monitoring the USB UPS in my home "data center" in the basement, > and it has been very reliable: http://soekris.com/products/net5501.html (also > available in a rack-mount form factor; I have no connection to Soekris > other than using their equipment) > > -- > Charles Lepple > clepple@gmail > > > >
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