Nut upsdev - Apr 2007 - success report with megatec and Belkin F6H650UkUNV (was: Success report with network UPS tools)

Hi Andy,

I've forwarded your info to the development list, and Carlos Rodrigues 
(the
megatec driver author and maintainer.

As a side note, there is a megatec_usb driver underway. You might
want to give it a try.

@Carlos: I let you update the drivers.list.

Thanks for your report,
Arnaud Quette
-- 
Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/




Andy Juniper <ajuniper@freeuk.com> 
04/25/07 10:58 PM

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Success report with network UPS tools






Hi,

I have just successfully installed NUT 2.0.5 to manage my UPS.

My UPS model is a Belkin F6H650UkUNV which can connect via serial or USB 
- I'm using serial, along with the megatec driver and it is basically 
working fine.

The only slight quirk was the during the deep battery test, the machine 
was shut down by upsmon before the deep discharge test completed, 
although I cannot really complain since that was just over an hour on 
batteries!  The output below was taken whilst the UPS was still 
recovering.

[root@root ups]# bin/upsc belkinups@localhost
battery.charge: 65.0
battery.voltage: 12.30
battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0
driver.name: megatec
driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0
driver.version: 2.0.5
driver.version.internal: 1.5
input.frequency: 50.0
input.voltage: 241.0
input.voltage.fault: 241.0
input.voltage.maximum: 243.0
input.voltage.minimum: 234.0
output.voltage: 241.0
output.voltage.nominal: 230.0
ups.beeper.status: disabled
ups.delay.shutdown: 60
ups.delay.start: 2
ups.load: 8.0
ups.mfr: BELKIN
ups.model: Master 1.00
ups.serial: unknown
ups.status: OL
ups.temperature: 32.0
[root@root ups]#

If there is any more info you'd like then please let me know.

Andy Juniper

Hi Arnaud,

Thanks for that info. I'll probably wait until the megatec_usb is in a 
stable build before giving it a try!

The UPS came with some Linux software from Belkin which works OK (it's 
email facility doesn't work and leaves zombie processes around), if you 
are interested I can get strace's of it running to investigate the 
commands it is sending and the responses it receives.

Andy

Arnaud QUETTE wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I've forwarded your info to the development list, and Carlos Rodrigues 
> (the
> megatec driver author and maintainer.
>
> As a side note, there is a megatec_usb driver underway. You might
> want to give it a try.
>
> @Carlos: I let you update the drivers.list.
>
> Thanks for your report,
> Arnaud Quette
>