Nut upsdev - Dec 2005 - Re: [Nut-upsuser] Atlantis-Land UPS with Cypress CY7C63723 chip

Hello Peter!

Peter Selinger wrote:
> This is useful information. I don't think the device is currently
> supported, but the information printed above is enough to write a
> subdriver for it. Note that the purpose of the "-x generic"
option is
> precisely to produce this output. 
[...]
>>    Apparently the UPS is recognized but no communication is 
>> occurring. What else? lsmod shows the yealink driver loaded. I 
>> attached the lsusb output.
>>    If I ls the /dev directory, there are no ttyUSBxx nodes. Only 
>> tty's and ttySxx. I believe there should be a ttyUSBsomething being
>> created, and this should be entered in the ups.conf file.
>>     
>
> No, USB devices are handled through /proc/bus/usb, not /dev/tty*.
>   
  Two questions: first of all, in a situation like mine (HID UPS) and 
assuming the UPS is actually supported, what are you supposed to have in 
the "port" entry in the ups.conf file? I tried the obvious at first 
(ttyS*), then tried /proc/bus/usb/001 (taken from my system) a minute 
ago after reading your reply. No joy. "No matching USB/HID UPS found" 
message after I "upsdrvctl start".

  Second: this UPS comes with the UPSilon2000 software from Megatec, and 
Megatec protocol is supported by NUT (or is it the RS-232 version being 
supported?), right?

>>    Any suggestions?
>>     
>
> I don't have time right now to work on a new subdriver, but you can
> look at docs/hid-subdrivers.txt and that should give you an idea on
> how to get started. Once you get something to work, you can post your
> code and results on this list, and if it works well, we'll add it as a
> supported device to NUT.
>
> Thanks for your detective work, -- Peter
>
>   
Thank you for your reply and explanations. I really want and need to get 
this thing to work. I'm a total newbie to USB and NUT, so be patient if 
I ask silly questions ;-) .

  --Max

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Hi Max,

ngpost1 wrote:
> 
> Hello Peter!
> 
> Peter Selinger wrote:
> > This is useful information. I don't think the device is currently
> > supported, but the information printed above is enough to write a
> > subdriver for it. Note that the purpose of the "-x generic"
option is
> > precisely to produce this output. 
> [...]
> 
> >>    Apparently the UPS is recognized but no communication is 
> >> occurring. What else? lsmod shows the yealink driver loaded. I 
> >> attached the lsusb output.
> >>    If I ls the /dev directory, there are no ttyUSBxx nodes. Only 
> >> tty's and ttySxx. I believe there should be a ttyUSBsomething
being
> >> created, and this should be entered in the ups.conf file.
> >>     
> >
> > No, USB devices are handled through /proc/bus/usb, not /dev/tty*.
> >   
>   Two questions: first of all, in a situation like mine (HID UPS) and 
> assuming the UPS is actually supported, what are you supposed to have in 
> the "port" entry in the ups.conf file? 
It does not matter; the entry is ignored by the newhidups driver. The
"port" entry must be present but is ignored. See the newhidups man
page.
> I tried the obvious at first 
> (ttyS*), then tried /proc/bus/usb/001 (taken from my system) a minute 
> ago after reading your reply. No joy. "No matching USB/HID UPS
found"
> message after I "upsdrvctl start".
USB devices are matched by their vendorid, not by their device file.
 
>   Second: this UPS comes with the UPSilon2000 software from Megatec, and 
> Megatec protocol is supported by NUT (or is it the RS-232 version being 
> supported?), right?
As far as I know, only the serial protocol is currently supported for
megatec.

-- Peter