[Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-06 Thread Rob Groner
My company is developing a new UPS, with smarts provided by a PIC32 Microchip micro-controller. The controller comes with a demo for a USBHID-UPS, and after some tweaking, I was able to get NUT to recognize it and start showing some reasonable values. To make this UPS as easy to use as

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-07 Thread Rob Groner
, 2014 11:02 PM To: Rob Groner Cc: nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid) On Mar 6, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Rob Groner wrote: To make this UPS as easy to use as possible for the end-user who chooses Linux, I figured I

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-08 Thread Rob Groner
was completely dumbfounded just a few days ago. I'll post more specific questions as they come. Thanks again! Rob -Original Message- From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 7:04 PM To: Rob Groner Cc: nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-12 Thread Rob Groner
The syntax is beginning (just beginning) to make sense to me now, so I'm looking now to try and implement just a few items in the report descriptor, and then I figured I can progress from there if all goes well. The power HID docs seem to encourage drawing out your system first, and then

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-12 Thread Rob Groner
or how you’d use a physical collection. A single data point…ok, but isn’t that true of your temperature data without it being in a “collection”? From: Nut-upsdev [mailto:nut-upsdev-bounces+rgroner=rtd@lists.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Rob Groner Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:48 AM

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-13 Thread Rob Groner
the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid) On Mar 12, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Rob Groner wrote: Is there some minimum amount of functionality I need to provide in this report descriptor in order for NUT to work correctly? I assume it's not requesting reports because there is nothing

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-13 Thread Rob Groner
=rtd@lists.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Rob Groner Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:44 AM To: nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org Developers Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid) Hmm...well, after it gets the report descriptor, NUT then gets

[Nut-upsdev] Creating a new NUT USB HID subdriver

2014-03-15 Thread Rob Groner
Thanks to the great help here, I now have a UPS spitting out something resembling a report descriptor. So since I seem destined to have to create a new USB HID subdriver, I figured I'd get started on the path. I followed all of the directions on the webI used the script to generate the

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Creating a new NUT USB HID subdriver

2014-03-17 Thread Rob Groner
Perfect! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Niels Baggesen [mailto:n...@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 11:51 AM To: Rob Groner; nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org Developers Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Creating a new NUT USB HID subdriver Den 14-03-2014 21:29

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)

2014-03-18 Thread Rob Groner
Things are going along well, but there is one remaining area of confusionunits. I understand exponents now...it's basically how you pass decimal values. That's easy enough. But unitsin other words, I have a voltage I want to put in a report. If I include in the report descriptor the

Re: [Nut-upsdev] UPS commands

2015-03-20 Thread Rob Groner
…how does the UPS ever know to turn its load on again? When the UPS itself is power cycled (again)? Thanks much for the help Arno Sincerely, Rob Groner Software Engineer RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. ISO9001 and AS9100 Certified Ph: 814-234-8087 www.rtd.comhttp://www.rtd.com

Re: [Nut-upsdev] New sub-driver submission process timeframe?

2015-03-09 Thread Rob Groner
for our customer to use. That will be a more than sufficient means to get our UPS working until our driver is officially included, or at least available for checkout. Thanks for the thorough response! Sincerely, Rob Groner From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 08

Re: [Nut-upsdev] New sub-driver submission process timeframe?

2015-03-09 Thread Rob Groner
Is there a specific file with the version number in it that I would modify, or do you just mean the file names? Sincerely, Rob Groner From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:23 AM To: Rob Groner Cc: nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [Nut

Re: [Nut-upsdev] New sub-driver submission process timeframe?

2015-03-09 Thread Rob Groner
executable. I also tried autogen.sh in case that was a typo...no luck. Sincerely, Rob Groner -Original Message- From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 1:04 PM To: Rob Groner Cc: nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] New

[Nut-upsdev] New sub-driver submission process timeframe?

2015-03-06 Thread Rob Groner
into the NUT trunk, then I'll have to make-do with the openups-usb driver, and work our own driver later. I've read through the 3.9 Source Code Management section of the dev guide. I'm much more familiar with svn than git, though I know that needs to change. Sincerely, Rob Groner Software Engineer RTD

[Nut-upsdev] Commanding the UPS on and off

2015-03-11 Thread Rob Groner
that the system will startup again. Have I got the right idea? It seems like those two commands will take care of most I need to have the UPS do. Sincerely, Rob Groner Software Engineer RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. ISO9001 and AS9100 Certified Ph: 814-234-8087 www.rtd.comhttp://www.rtd.com

Re: [Nut-upsdev] UPS commands

2015-03-23 Thread Rob Groner
, Rob Groner Software Engineer RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. ISO9001 and AS9100 Certified Ph: 814-234-8087 www.rtd.comhttp://www.rtd.com/ ___ Nut-upsdev mailing list Nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [Nut-upsdev] USB HID Spec help (passing strings)

2015-08-31 Thread Rob Groner
I’ll look again. Thanks for the help. Rob Groner Software Engineer Level II RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. ISO 9001 and AS9100 Certified Ph: +1 814-234-8087 www.rtd.com<http://www.rtd.com/> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 6:51 PM To:

Re: [Nut-upsdev] USB HID Spec help (passing strings)

2015-09-02 Thread Rob Groner
Charles…that is a very good link to the Appnote considering you haven’t done PIC32 work. ☺ My google skills failed me. Rob Groner Software Engineer Level II RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. ISO 9001 and AS9100 Certified Ph: +1 814-234-8087 www.rtd.com<http://www.rtd.

[Nut-upsdev] USB HID Spec help (passing strings)

2015-08-28 Thread Rob Groner
and better help on understanding USB than anywhere else. Rob Groner Software Engineer Level II RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. ISO 9001 and AS9100 Certified Ph: +1 814-234-8087 www.rtd.comhttp://www.rtd.com/ ___ Nut-upsdev mailing list Nut-upsdev

[Nut-upsdev] A "standard" serial protocol?

2016-04-28 Thread Rob Groner
at what seemed to be some generic serial drivers in NUT, but the commands supported and response patterns didn't make a lot of sense to methough I'm not sure how much it really matters if the serial protocol is "readable" to a human. Thanks.