Nut upsdev - May 2006 - Fw: Yet another HID device - Cyberpower AE550

Peter Selinger wrote, 
  
 > Hi Joe,
>
> I read between the lines that (a) you are using the newhidups driver,
> and (b) it is working. Is this correct? You might want to post the
> output of "upsc" just for the record. 
 Whups, I should've been more clear and less terse -- it's been a long
weekend putting the machines these are supporting into production!
 
 This is my first encounter with nut, and as far as I could tell, 2.0.3's
newhidups doesn't have any sort of generic mode.  The development tree does,
but my ability to bang on the task (*lack of* explicit support at present) is
limited right now -- looks like cps-hid.c/cps-hid.h would be in order?
 
 I didn't see a way to trick 2.0.3 into attaching newhidups to the device
without modifying the source.
 
> A load measurement is not really essential, although it is nice to
> have. Shutdown is usually initiated based on remaining battery
> capacity.
 Agreed; this'd just be a device quirk if it'd leave any status
variables 'floating.'  Haven't done enough reading...
 
 
 With some sleep, I realize I can cook up a patch and actually test it via
laptop without disturbing the installed systems; that'll be next week,
though -- assuming Ubuntu will deign to support my Thinkpad, speaking of quirks
-- so if anyone wants to beat me to it, please feel free.
 
 -Thanks for reading,
 -Joe "Floid" Kanowitz
[Still not rested enough to have cc:d this properly to the list, heh.]

J. Kanowitz wrote:
> 
> Peter Selinger wrote, 
>   
>  > Hi Joe,
> >
> > I read between the lines that (a) you are using the newhidups driver,
> > and (b) it is working. Is this correct? You might want to post the
> > output of "upsc" just for the record. 
> 
>  Whups, I should've been more clear and less terse -- it's been a
long weekend putting the machines these are supporting into production!
>  
> This is my first encounter with nut, and as far as I could tell,
> 2.0.3's newhidups doesn't have any sort of generic mode.  The
> development tree does, but my ability to bang on the task (*lack
> of* explicit support at present) is limited right now -- looks like
> cps-hid.c/cps-hid.h would be in order?
No; just get the development sources from SVN. Cyber Power Systems
(=CPS) is already supported by newhidups via the APC/CyberPower
subdriver. Some fine-tuning might be needed as we haven't seen this
device before; but the driver should attach without problems. 

-- Peter