Nut upsuser - Oct 2014 - Belkin unk ups

Greetings;

Its unk because whats plugged in seems to be blocking the rear name plate.
About all I can recall is that its big, 3 battery unit, rated somewhere 
north ob 1250 VA.

Its an 050D:0751 Belkin.

What driver should I use, and what file is that set in?

The nut version presently and freshly installed is from the Ubuntu 10.04.4 
LTS repo's.  Probably old, but IIRC it also worked with the Ubu 8.04 LTS 
version.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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On Oct 12, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> Its unk because whats plugged in seems to be blocking the rear name plate.
> About all I can recall is that its big, 3 battery unit, rated somewhere 
> north ob 1250 VA.
> 
> Its an 050D:0751 Belkin.
> 
> What driver should I use, and what file is that set in?
Looks like it is in usbhid-ups.

If you're asking what file should you specify the driver in, it's
ups.conf (probably still located in /etc/nut; I don't think it has moved
much in Ubuntu/Debian over the years).

If you are curious where the USB ID list is in the source, for usbhid-ups, there
are several files named drivers/*-hid.c, and they all have macros of the form
USB_DEVICE(VID, PID) which will match the hex VID:PID.
> The nut version presently and freshly installed is from the Ubuntu 10.04.4 
> LTS repo's.  Probably old, but IIRC it also worked with the Ubu 8.04
LTS
> version.
A quick check shows that your UPS's ID was added in 2006 (NUT v2.0.3 and
later) so your version should be new enough.

-- 
Charles Lepple
http://ghz.cc/charles/

On Tuesday 14 October 2014 08:19:02 Charles Lepple did opine
And Gene did reply:
> usbhid-ups
Added that, but only get this at "sudo service nut start"
gene at coyote:/etc/init.d$ sudo service nut start
 * Starting Network UPS Tools
[ OK ] 
                                                                               
Broadcast Message from nut at coyote
        (somewhere) at 8:37 ...                                                
                                                                               
Communications with UPS myups at coyote.coyote.den lost
                                                                               

                                                                               
Broadcast Message from nut at coyote
        (somewhere) at 8:37 ...                                                
                                                                               
UPS myups at coyote.coyote.den is unavailable
                                                                               
service nut stop
 * Stopping Network UPS Tools                          

I haven't checked cabling, but AFAIK its still plugged in, but not sure if 
its usb or serial cabling.  I'll check that once I get both eyes open 
simultaneously and report back.

Found the cable, a D type usb, unplugged it and replugged it, and it 
appears now to be /dev/usb/hiddev3.  dmesg, ever so helpful, and lsusb 
equally helpful, do not tell what the /dev/usbdevice is assigned to the 
newly discovered plugin. dmesg just reports:

[136319.530160] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 2
[136322.641716] usb 1-10: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-pci
[136322.929480] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=050d, 
idProduct=0751
[136322.929486] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=4, Product=20, 
SerialNumber=0
[136322.929489] usb 1-10: Product: Belkin UPS
[136322.929491] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: Belkin 
[136323.695058] hid-generic 0003:050D:0751.0008: hiddev0,hidraw6: USB HID 
v1.11 Device [Belkin  Belkin UPS] on usb-0000:00:02.0-10/input0

So is this usb-0000:00:02.0-10/input0 a valid way to give nut a path to 
it, and if so, what file do I add that too?

I also note that in the original bootup discovery it was hiddev0/hidraw6, 
the same as the latest plug in report, so that also appears stable.  

But ls -l /dev/usb:
crw-rw---- 1 root root 180, 0 2014-10-12 18:51 hiddev0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 180, 1 2014-10-12 18:51 hiddev1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 180, 2 2014-10-12 18:51 hiddev2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 180, 3 2014-10-14 08:44 hiddev3
crw-rw---- 1 root lp   180, 4 2014-10-13 05:50 lp4
crw-rw---- 1 root lp   180, 5 2014-10-13 05:50 lp5

shows that hiddev3 is the one created by my cable unplug/replug.
Call me confused at best.

Guidance needed yet, obviously.  I've had several birthdays since we last 
conversed, so I am now 80yo, and definitely seeing the effects of poorer 
short term memory.  Darnit...


Thanks Charles

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS