On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:13:02 -0500 EJ Vincent <[email protected]> dijo: >You touched upon several issues in your email, so here's my wack at >what I think you need to do. While I have no experience using the >BX1500G, I have configured apcupsd with BE750G (on Ubuntu 10.10) which >uses a similar RJ45<->USB plug. I agree the gnome panel doesn't >provide much information. Regardless, you can (and should) adjust >your unit's configuration solely from apcupsd.conf (for me >/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf)-- I set UPSCABLE to usb, UPSTYPE to usb, >and commented out DEVICE-- not a required option as it will >autodetect. (Naturally any changes you make to this file should be >accompanied with a restart of the service).
I can't figure out the name of the service. But it probably doesn't matter because the DEVICE line was blank and the others were already set the way you said. I did comment out the DEVICE. >You can ask your unit for data by invoking `apcaccess`. Here's a >sample of mine: $ apcaccess Error contacting apcupsd @ localhost:3551: Connection refused I get the same error message if I do it as root. >You said you're having problems identifying the device? Here's a >sample of (my) dmesg output identifying the device upon startup: >generic-usb 0003:051D:0002.0001: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 >Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS ES 750 FW:841.I3 .D USB >FW:I3 ] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2/input0 $dmesg | grep USB (snipped): [ 2.333380] generic-usb 0003:051D:0002.0001: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS BX1500G FW:866.L5 .D USB FW:L5 ] on usb-0000:00:1a.7-4.1/input0 [ 10.035631] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6 [ 2567.208036] usb 1-4.1: USB disconnect, address 5 [ 2627.230271] usb 1-4.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 [ 2627.317507] usb 1-4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=051d, idProduct=0002 [ 2627.317518] usb 1-4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 2627.317527] usb 1-4.1: Product: Back-UPS BX1500G FW:866.L5 .D USB FW:L5 [ 2627.338296] generic-usb 0003:051D:0002.0004: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS BX1500G FW:866.L5 .D USB FW:L5 ] on usb-0000:00:1a.7-4.1/input0 I'm not sure what in the above is the actual name of the device. Or what to do with the name once I figure it out. >Alternatively, lshw can output system bus information, so you could >locate the unit that way (not as fun mind you): lshw doesn't seem to be installed on my Fedora 14 x86_64 computer. >To take this a step further, if you have apache2 setup, you can >install the apcupsd-cgi addon, which will show you (imho) more >meaningful graphs via a web interface. Hope this pushes you in the >right direction. I don't really have any experience with Apache. I do have the apcupsd-gci add-on installed, and I noted when I installed it that it said it was for a web interface. Problem is, I don't know how to find it with the web browser. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
