Nut upsuser - Apr 2011 - GE EP series UPS

Hi,

I just got two new UPS's - GE EP6000R. These have both RS232 and USB
connection.

As far as I could detect these are not supported by NUT. However, they
provide some Linux software and as long as these UPS's are not in
production (another week or so) I could 'play' with them to try to get
some protocol information.

Though I would need some pointers on how to do it... Mind you I'm no
programmer so I won't be able to create an actual driver.

So - what's a good way to 'sniff' RS232 data sent to and from UPS?


  Regards, Danilo




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Citeren Danilo Godec <danilo.godec op agenda.si>:
> I just got two new UPS's - GE EP6000R. These have both RS232 and USB
> connection.
>
> As far as I could detect these are not supported by NUT. However, they
> provide some Linux software and as long as these UPS's are not in
> production (another week or so) I could 'play' with them to try to
get
> some protocol information.
The first thing to do is to check the VID:PID combination that is  
reported by 'lsusb -v'. Chances are that these units are already  
supported through one of the generic drivers we have. Even if you  
intend to use the serial port, this is useful as in many cases the USB  
support is just a build in USB to serial converter and the device uses  
a serial protocol.

Best regards, Arjen
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