Nut upsdev - Jan 2008 - Some question about megatec vs. powercom

Hi folks!

We have a Powercom Vanguard 6000 running here. It seems to be supported by the
megatec driver within nut. So I get everything out of it exept the battery
status. When I run Nut, it says:

Megatec protocol UPS detected [UPS Model 6K Ver Y1.3].
This UPS has an unsupported combination of battery voltage/number of batteries.
The "battery.charge" value will be bogus.

So I would like to try adding this feature. But actually I don't have any
idea where to start :-)

I guess that the script is fetching out values fron serial and interpreting
those in some way. The question is: How do I get the original values which came
from the UPS into nut?

I think there must be a way adding this feature (maybe in a new subdriver or
so). But as I said: I do not know where to start :-(

THX for every hints on this issue!

Ekkehard 'Ekki' Gehm


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On Jan 23, 2008 3:49 PM, Ekkehard Gehm <gehm at physik.tu-berlin.de>
wrote:
> Megatec protocol UPS detected [UPS Model 6K Ver Y1.3].
> This UPS has an unsupported combination of battery voltage/number of
batteries. The "battery.charge" value will be bogus.
>
> So I would like to try adding this feature. But actually I don't have
any idea where to start :-)
If you have a recent enough version of NUT, megatec supports a
parameter "battvolts" where you can specify the battery voltage when
the UPS is fully charged, and the voltage when the UPS is discharged.

You can run "megatec -DDD yourups" while powering a lightbulb or
another non-important device, disconnect from the wall and let the UPS
drain the battery until it shuts itself down. Then send me the output
and I'll help you find the values from it.

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Carlos Rodrigues