We are interested in using Nut on our Federa 6.0 servers. However, our UPS systems are sold under the name "Geek Squad" (sold through the Best Buy chain of department stores). I'm pretty certain Geek Squad does not manufacture these units and they just rebrand them. Does anyone know who makes these units or what they are compatible with in terms of driver level protocol? The ones we use are the 1500VA capacity model. If this is not the proper forum for this question, please let me know. Regards, Kory
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:36:29 -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote:> > We are interested in using Nut on our Federa 6.0 servers. However, our > UPS systems are sold under the name "Geek Squad" (sold through the Best > Buy chain of department stores). I'm pretty certain Geek Squad does not > manufacture these units and they just rebrand them. Does anyone know who > makes these units or what they are compatible with in terms of driver > level protocol? The ones we use are the 1500VA capacity model. > > If this is not the proper forum for this question, please let me know. > > Regards, > KoryNobody seems to have answered this the last time it was asked: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2005-November/000454.html
On 1/2/07, Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> wrote:> We are interested in using Nut on our Federa 6.0 servers. However, our > UPS systems are sold under the name "Geek Squad" (sold through the Best > Buy chain of department stores). I'm pretty certain Geek Squad does not > manufacture these units and they just rebrand them. Does anyone know who > makes these units or what they are compatible with in terms of driver > level protocol? The ones we use are the 1500VA capacity model.What's the software used to drive them on Windows? -- Carlos Rodrigues
Kory Hamzeh wrote:> We are interested in using Nut on our Federa 6.0 servers. However, our > UPS systems are sold under the name "Geek Squad" (sold through the Best > Buy chain of department stores). I'm pretty certain Geek Squad does not > manufacture these units and they just rebrand them. Does anyone know who > makes these units or what they are compatible with in terms of driver > level protocol? The ones we use are the 1500VA capacity model. > > If this is not the proper forum for this question, please let me know. >According to this link, the 1285VA (and the 1500VA) model uses PowerPanel, which happens to be the same software as my cyberpower ups does.. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7383985&type=product&productCategoryId=cat08029&id=1122654249041 The lower prices models ( < 1000VA) looks like the old contact-closure APC ups, and come with "a power management application" for windows 98/xp/nt if the ups uses the cyber power command set, you might be in luck, as Arjen and I finally have a working cpsups driver... an easy way to test it is: open your serial port to your ups with cu (ie cu -s 2400 -l /dev/serialdevicename) once it is opened, hit <enter> (a couple times if needed). if you see a #2, type in P4<enter>, and post back the info it returns.
Dear Gary, NUT 2.0.3 is an ancient version. CPS support was added to newhidups much later. -- Peter P.S. please keep list traffic on the mailing list. Thanks! Gary Redden wrote:> > You wrote the following on the NUT-upsuser mailing list > > To check if your device's USB interface is supported, try the > newhidups driver. You can run this driver (at first) as > > drivers/newhidups -DD -u root auto > > If the device is not (yet) supported, then please find out the vendor > id and product id of the device; they should be in the debug output > from the driver (something like abcd/0123), or you can see them with > 'lsusb' or similar. > > -- Peter > > I have the same Geek Squad UPS. Cyber Power Systems support told me to > use newhidups driver but the following printout from newhidups seems to > say the UPS is not supported. The only CPS UPS shown under newhidups is > the 685AVR. I have e-mailed CPS support to see if the 685AVR driver > will work with the GS 1285U. But I do not know how to proceed. > > gary@redden-p700:~$ sudo /lib/nut/newhidups -DD -u root auto > Password: > Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3) > > debug level is '2' > Checking device (0764/0501) (001/003) > - VendorID: 0764 > - ProductID: 0501 > - Manufacturer: CPS > - Product: GS 1285U > - Serial Number: unknown > - Bus: 001 > Trying to match device > Device does not match - skipping > Checking device (0553/0202) (001/002) > - VendorID: 0553 > - ProductID: 0202 > - Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics > - Product: USB Dual-mode Camera > - Serial Number: unknown > - Bus: 001 > Trying to match device > Device does not match - skipping > Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001) > - VendorID: 0000 > - ProductID: 0000 > - Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.15-27-386 uhci_hcd > - Product: UHCI Host Controller > - Serial Number: 0000:00:07.2 > - Bus: 001 > Trying to match device > Device does not match - skipping > No appropriate HID device found > No matching USB/HID UPS found > gary@redden-p700:~$ sudo lsusb > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc. > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0553:0202 STMicroelectronics Imaging Division > (VLSI Vision) Aiptek PenCam 1 > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > gary@redden-p700:~$ >