Nut upsdev - Oct 2008 - Bug#501087: nut: support for a tripplite avr750u

Hi Raphael,

btw, are you 2 bugs today a simple coincidence with my linkedIn
invitation yesterday? ;-)

2008/10/4 Raphael Geissert <atomo64 at gmail.com>:
> Package: nut
> Version: 2.2.2-8
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Attached is a patch adding "support" for tripplite's avr750u
UPS.
> Issues:
> * productid still needs to be specified in ups.conf
you missed to add an entry in drivers/tripplite-hid.c
->tripplite_claim() for that ;-)
and an entry in the hotplug script for the sake of completion.
thanks for the patch. I'll look into commiting it into the trunk, and
possibly in sid, depending on the next release date.
> * the battery charge information, at least as displayed by knutclient
0.9.4,
> is either 0% or 100%, the latter only being displayed when the UPS is fully
> charged.
> * the runtime info is only updated after a
test.battery.start.<quick/deep>,
> there's no calibrate.<start/stop> for it.
I don't know much about TL devices, and I've not dug the ml, but
Charles might have an answer to that.
> Bit OT, but wanted to ask: is there anyone trying to add support for
Koblenz'
> UPS?
never heard about it.
do you have any info on it, like the name of the windows software
provided, or the protocol used, ... ?

cheers,
Arnaud
-- 
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On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2008/10/4 Raphael Geissert <atomo64 at gmail.com>:
>> Package: nut
>> Version: 2.2.2-8
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Tags: patch
[...]
>> * the battery charge information, at least as displayed by knutclient
0.9.4,
>> is either 0% or 100%, the latter only being displayed when the UPS is
fully
>> charged.
>> * the runtime info is only updated after a
test.battery.start.<quick/deep>,
>> there's no calibrate.<start/stop> for it.
>
> I don't know much about TL devices, and I've not dug the ml, but
> Charles might have an answer to that.
I don't know much about the Tripp Lite devices covered by the
usbhid-ups driver, but the usual debug suggestions apply. You can run
the driver with -DDD on the command line, and look for messages
related to battery charge.

Going out on a limb here, maybe it's something that we have to
explicitly poll (versus waiting for it to be reported on the interrupt
pipe), for the times when it is below 100%.

In any case, it's probably a good idea to first verify that knutclient
agrees with upsc.

-- 
- Charles Lepple

Citeren Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com>:
>> Attached is a patch adding "support" for tripplite's
avr750u UPS.
>> Issues:
>> * productid still needs to be specified in ups.conf
>
> you missed to add an entry in drivers/tripplite-hid.c
> ->tripplite_claim() for that ;-)
And beware that you need to put it in the correct place as well. Some  
Tripp Lite HID devices (incorrectly) report battery voltage in  
decivolts so we need to apply a correction factor here. So there are  
basically two groups in this function. One that reports battery  
voltage in decivolts (productid 1003, 2005 and 2007) and one that  
reports battery voltage in volts (productid 3012, 4002, 4003). Before  
committing this change, we need to see the output of 'upsc' to know  
what it reports.
> and an entry in the hotplug script for the sake of completion.
Don't forget the udev and hal scripts either. We probably need to come  
up with some automation here, so that we have to put this in only one  
place and have these scripts generated automagically.

Best regards, Arjen
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Hi Arnaud,

2008/10/4 Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at
gmail.com>:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> btw, are you 2 bugs today a simple coincidence with my linkedIn
> invitation yesterday? ;-)
Pure coincidence :)
>
> 2008/10/4 Raphael Geissert <atomo64 at gmail.com>:
>> Package: nut
>> Version: 2.2.2-8
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Attached is a patch adding "support" for tripplite's
avr750u UPS.
>> Issues:
>> * productid still needs to be specified in ups.conf
>
> you missed to add an entry in drivers/tripplite-hid.c
> ->tripplite_claim() for that ;-)
I grepped for tripplite and tripp-lite but didn't find where the
product id was missing. I should have grepped for the productid of the
avr550u which I suppose is already listed in that file.
> and an entry in the hotplug script for the sake of completion.
done
> thanks for the patch. I'll look into commiting it into the trunk, and
> possibly in sid, depending on the next release date.
>
>> * the battery charge information, at least as displayed by knutclient
0.9.4,
>> is either 0% or 100%, the latter only being displayed when the UPS is
fully
>> charged.
>> * the runtime info is only updated after a
test.battery.start.<quick/deep>,
>> there's no calibrate.<start/stop> for it.
>
> I don't know much about TL devices, and I've not dug the ml, but
> Charles might have an answer to that.
>
>> Bit OT, but wanted to ask: is there anyone trying to add support for
Koblenz'
>> UPS?
>
> never heard about it.
> do you have any info on it, like the name of the windows software
> provided, or the protocol used, ... ?
The, pretty dummy, software is called Koblenz Protek, its, dead,
website being http://www.koblenz-protek.com/

While checking their main website I found this page (in spanish):
http://www.koblenz-energia.com.mx/nobr_usb1_4.htm

Providing a link to the latest version of the windows software
(available in spanish and english):
http://www.koblenz-energia.com.mx/Koblenz_Protek_4_0_1.zip

It is all the info I could find; the UPS didn't come with any doc
about the USB interface.
>
> cheers,
> Arnaud
> --
> Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems -
http://www.mgeops.com
> Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
> Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
> Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
>
Cheers,
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