Hello, first of all I'd like to thank all the NUT developers for their gorgeous work and for their efforts to make NUT the best and most complete UPS management software I've ever seen (seriously). Secondarily I'd like to help the NUT project as far as my help is needed, I'm not a programmer (by now...) but I would like to help somehow anyway. I have 3 UPS from the same manufacturer by now, the Mustek PowerMust 1000VA Plus, PowerMust 800VA Pro and PowerMust 600VA USB and the first two of these are listed in the NUT's compatibility page as "full compatible" using the "megatec" driver: in fact they perfectly work. I would like to report that also the third one is compatible using the megatec driver, both via RS232 and via USB port. So I hope it could be inserted in the compatibility page. The only thing that's "strange" is that the driver report a 97.5% battery charge status also if the UPS is at full charge (it's attached to power network by several days without interruption), as you can see here: battery.charge: 97.5 battery.voltage: 13.60 battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0 driver.name: megatec driver.parameter.mfr: Mustek driver.parameter.model: PowerMust_600VA_USB driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2 driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0 driver.parameter.serial: 001 driver.version: 2.2.1- driver.version.internal: 1.5.13 input.frequency: 50.1 input.voltage: 225.0 input.voltage.fault: 225.0 input.voltage.maximum: 231.3 input.voltage.minimum: 217.1 output.voltage: 225.0 output.voltage.nominal: 220.0 ups.beeper.status: enabled ups.delay.shutdown: 0 ups.delay.start: 2 ups.load: 35.0 ups.mfr: Mustek ups.model: PowerMust_600VA_USB ups.serial: 001 ups.status: OL ups.temperature: 25.0 And more, my syslog daemon sometimes (rarely, luckily) report a "lost connection with UPS" followed by a "reconnected" status, here's a few log lines: Dec 22 15:09:00 <ServerName> upsd[5608]: Data for UPS [PowerMust600USB] is stale - check driver Dec 22 15:09:00 <ServerName> upsd[5608]: UPS [PowerMust600USB] data is no longer stale the problem above happens, more or less, one time every 4 or 5 days of NUT monitoring and it happens 5 or 6 times consecutively in half an hour. Then, I can't see those log lines any more for another 4/5 days. I don't know if it's a "normal" behaviour or not, so I wrote here, mainly to report that NUT works with this new UPS, but also to signal this strange behaviour :) The UPS is connected via serial RS232 cable (included in packaging, I think it is a standard RS232 cable) to an Ubuntu v8.04.2-server machine, kernel 2.6.24-22, and NUT is at version 2.2.1 (the one present in the official Canonical repositories). I hope these informations are useful and I am completely disposable to report any other information (such as my configuration files) and to make debug of the driver with the appropriate guidelines by the NUT developers. Thank you again, hope you have had a nice and happy Christmas with your families :) -- Fr3ddie fr3ddie at fr3ddie.it Home Page: http://www.fr3ddie.it OpenPGP Public Key available on my website
Hi, On Saturday 27 December 2008 19:46:21 Fr3ddie wrote:> Hello, > first of all I'd like to thank all the NUT developers for their gorgeous > work and for their efforts to make NUT the best and most complete UPS > management software I've ever seen (seriously). > > Secondarily I'd like to help the NUT project as far as my help is > needed, I'm not a programmer (by now...) but I would like to help > somehow anyway. > > I have 3 UPS from the same manufacturer by now, the Mustek > > PowerMust 1000VA Plus, > PowerMust 800VA Pro and > PowerMust 600VA USB > > and the first two of these are listed in the NUT's compatibility page as > "full compatible" using the "megatec" driver: in fact they perfectly work. > I would like to report that also the third one is compatible using the > megatec driver, both via RS232 and via USB port. So I hope it could be > inserted in the compatibility page.Do you mean by this that it is supported by the 'megatec_usb' driver or that the UPS has some standard USB-COM adapter recognized by the OS kernel and thus indeed supported by the 'megatec' driver? -- Alexander
Alexander I. Gordeev ha scritto:>> and the first two of these are listed in the NUT's compatibility page as >> "full compatible" using the "megatec" driver: in fact they perfectly work. >> I would like to report that also the third one is compatible using the >> megatec driver, both via RS232 and via USB port. So I hope it could be >> inserted in the compatibility page.> Do you mean by this that it is supported by the 'megatec_usb' driver or that > the UPS has some standard USB-COM adapter recognized by the OS kernel and > thus indeed supported by the 'megatec' driver?The UPS has two ports: one standard RS232 and another one USB standard B-type (it's the one with the "square" connector, used by most printers and external USB 3.5" hard drives, if I'm right). It works with the RS232 port+cable and also with the USB port+cable (both included in the package), with no converters, thus with the megatek and mustek_usb driver. I'd like to report that my other two UPS has only a standard RS232 (male?) port. Maybe this should be an information included into the compatibility list (type and number of interfaces present/working on an UPS model), or not? Thanks for your quick answer! -- Fr3ddie fr3ddie at fr3ddie.it Home Page: http://www.fr3ddie.it OpenPGP Public Key available on my website
Citeren Fr3ddie <fr3ddie at fr3ddie.it>:> The only thing that's "strange" is that the driver report a 97.5% > battery charge status also if the UPS is at full charge (it's attached > to power network by several days without interruption), as you can see here:[...] The reason for this (and what can be done about it) is documented in the man page (man 8 megatec). Look under the 'battvolts' parameter.> And more, my syslog daemon sometimes (rarely, luckily) report a "lost > connection with UPS" followed by a "reconnected" status, here's a few > log lines: > > Dec 22 15:09:00 <ServerName> upsd[5608]: Data for UPS [PowerMust600USB] > is stale - check driver > Dec 22 15:09:00 <ServerName> upsd[5608]: UPS [PowerMust600USB] data is > no longer stale > > the problem above happens, more or less, one time every 4 or 5 days of > NUT monitoring and it happens 5 or 6 times consecutively in half an > hour. Then, I can't see those log lines any more for another 4/5 days. > I don't know if it's a "normal" behaviour or not, so I wrote here, > mainly to report that NUT works with this new UPS, but also to signal > this strange behaviour :)This will be fixed by upgrading to nut-2.2.2 or later. Best regards, Arjen -- Please keep list traffic on the list