[Nut-upsdev] Some question about megatec vs. powercom

Ekkehard Gehm
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:49:12 -0000

Hi folks!

We have a Powercom Vanguard 6000 running here. It seems to be supported by the
megatec driver within nut. So I get everything out of it exept the battery
status. When I run Nut, it says:

Megatec protocol UPS detected [UPS Model 6K Ver Y1.3].
This UPS has an unsupported combination of battery voltage/number of batteries.
The "battery.charge" value will be bogus.

So I would like to try adding this feature. But actually I don't have any
idea where to start :-)

I guess that the script is fetching out values fron serial and interpreting
those in some way. The question is: How do I get the original values which came
from the UPS into nut?

I think there must be a way adding this feature (maybe in a new subdriver or
so). But as I said: I do not know where to start :-(

THX for every hints on this issue!

Ekkehard 'Ekki' Gehm


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