Nut upsdev - May 2016 - New driver

Hi,

First of all I'd like to congratulate everyone engaged in this great
project.

I've been following this list since late 2014, when I acquired an APC
UPS model BZ1200BR. APC bought a Brazilian company named Microsol,
which NUT package had drivers for Solis and Rhino models. Since that
time, I started developing a new driver for the models below, as a way
to support my own device, but as a hobby too. The driver supports all
features that the APC provided software provides and I implemented all
information I could possibly get and set with NUT (for example,
thresholds can be adjusted). The driver was pretty much done by end
2014 but due to other priorities and problems with my own equipment
(had to replace main board twice!), I did not went forward to submit
it.

Anyway, I was about to submit it but noticed that someone changed solis
driver to support BZ1200BR. In this case, I am submitting the driver I
wrote so you can take a look and decide if it could help or not.

The driver supports the following UPS:
?* PS350_CII
?* PS800
?* STAY1200
?* BZ1200BR
?* PS2200
?* PS2200 220V
?* STAY700
?* BZ1500BR

The enhancements I did, if compared to solis driver are:
- From time to time, the driver synchronizes the clock. Don't know why,
but my UPS got out of sync quite often.
- Supports all Microsol models not implemented in Solis and Rhino
drivers. Although I could test only with BZ1200.
- Implemented dstate writable variables
like?battery.runtime.low,?battery.charge.warning
- Output messages are all defined in header file

Thank you,

Carlos
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Hi all,

In 1995 I had developed Solis and Rhino drivers, so I think that this
driver must be preserved compatibility, because there are Solis and Rhino
actives nowadays, I have one Solis 1.5 KVA still working. Why not a new one
for new power supply?

Silvino Benevides Magalh?es
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Hi,

That was the idea. The driver I wrote do not affect Solis or Rhino
models. It was intended only for newer models. My idea was to release
it as a new driver. The only thing I noticed is that someone added
support to one of the models covered by the driver I did on Solis
driver. So I shared the driver I wrote to check what the community
thinks its best for the project. I believe there are two options: a)
Add the new driver for the newest models, leaving rhino and solis
drivers unchanged b) merge the functionality of solis and the driver I
wrote. I prefer option a) because it does not change users of solis UPS
and it would not require any further development work.

Best Regards,

Carlos



On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 16:20 -0300, Silvino Benevides Magalhaes
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In 1995 I had developed Solis and Rhino drivers, so I think that this
> driver must be preserved compatibility, because there are Solis and
> Rhino actives nowadays, I have one Solis 1.5 KVA still working. Why
> not a new one for new power supply?
> 
> Silvino Benevides Magalh?es
>