Thanks again for your help, Charles. I was able to install the Tripp Lite software on my Ubuntu machine, and it sort of works. It does something which continually changes the USB device ID of the UPS, and prints voluminous error messages in the log. However, one of the things that it can do is to schedule a UPS shutdown, which Nut does not know how to do.
So I monitored the USB port with wireshark (an interesting endeavor since I didn't start out with any knowledge of USB protocols). But I have managed to discover that when I ask Tripp Lite's poweralert software to schedule a UPS shutdown, it does it by using the SET_REPORT function of the USB HID protocol with ReportType "Feature", ReportID 21 (0x15), and 3 bytes of data which are 0x15 followed by the number of seconds to wait before shutting down in two bytes, LSB first. Below I include wireshark packet dissections for two such commands. The difference is in the "data fragment". In the first case it is 150500, representing a shutdown in 5 seconds, and the second 153701, representing a shutdown in 311 = 0x0137 seconds. Is this helpful? Ken 27738 174.290305 host 1.44.0 USBHID 67 SET_REPORT Request Frame 27738: 67 bytes on wire (536 bits), 67 bytes captured (536 bits) on interface 0 USB URB [Source: host] [Destination: 1.44.0] URB id: 0xffff964d9a2f8540 URB type: URB_SUBMIT ('S') URB transfer type: URB_CONTROL (0x02) Endpoint: 0x00, Direction: OUT Device: 44 URB bus id: 1 Device setup request: relevant (0) Data: present (0) URB sec: 1515699253 URB usec: 785764 URB status: Operation now in progress (-EINPROGRESS) (-115) URB length [bytes]: 3 Data length [bytes]: 3 [Response in: 27739] Interval: 0 Start frame: 0 Copy of Transfer Flags: 0x00000000 Number of ISO descriptors: 0 [bInterfaceClass: HID (0x03)] URB setup bmRequestType: 0x21 bRequest: 9 wValue: 0x0315 wIndex: 0 (0x0000) wLength: 3 Data Fragment: 150500 bRequest: SET_REPORT (0x09) wValue: 0x0315 ReportID: 21 ReportType: Feature (3) wIndex: 0 wLength: 3 66224 1042.041242 host 1.48.0 USBHID 67 SET_REPORT Request Frame 66224: 67 bytes on wire (536 bits), 67 bytes captured (536 bits) on interface 0 USB URB [Source: host] [Destination: 1.48.0] URB id: 0xffff964c9246bd80 URB type: URB_SUBMIT ('S') URB transfer type: URB_CONTROL (0x02) Endpoint: 0x00, Direction: OUT Device: 48 URB bus id: 1 Device setup request: relevant (0) Data: present (0) URB sec: 1515700121 URB usec: 536701 URB status: Operation now in progress (-EINPROGRESS) (-115) URB length [bytes]: 3 Data length [bytes]: 3 [Response in: 66225] Interval: 0 Start frame: 0 Copy of Transfer Flags: 0x00000000 Number of ISO descriptors: 0 [bInterfaceClass: HID (0x03)] URB setup bmRequestType: 0x21 bRequest: 9 wValue: 0x0315 wIndex: 0 (0x0000) wLength: 3 Data Fragment: 153701 bRequest: SET_REPORT (0x09) wValue: 0x0315 ReportID: 21 ReportType: Feature (3) wIndex: 0 wLength: 3 _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser