Nut upsdev - Feb 2026 - [Apcupsd-users] Wishlist: Absorb apcupsd features and device support that may be still missing in NUT

Thanks for the quick replies, this is encouraging!

  I suppose the first part is easy for almost all users: try to deploy both
toolkits side by side, and constructively complain about what is missing :)
e.g. in that https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/3301 ticket.

  I understand the configuration methods may differ and cause some
friction, and that is mostly to be accepted with migration to a different
toolkit - new house, new rules. The more interesting part is about missing
data points, device/protocol/media support, clients, tools (e.g. is there
one to push firmwares to UPSes?) etc.

  I've now posted a starter page on Wiki about this:
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/Migrating-from-apcupsd-to-NUT
and would welcome the first explorers to update it with factual suggestions
about the migration ("In apcupsd-land we did this, and for NUT a similar
concept/setup looks like this").

  NOTE: It may be problematic to install both toolkits side-by-side with
packaging on some systems allowing only one of the UPS management
implementations, but it is recommended to build the recent NUT master
branch anyway to try the newest features (and debug-ability ever growing),
e.g. following instructions from
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/Building-NUT-for-in%E2%80%90place-upgrades-or-non%E2%80%90disruptive-tests
and
platform-specific prerequisites linked from there.

  I'll be largely offline for a couple of weeks from mid-February, but hope
other NUT community members can help out when questions arise. And we have
a ton of documentation collected over the almost three decades... it might
be a bit hard to dig through all of it, but hopefully most answers are out
there somewhere. One starting point is
https://networkupstools.org/documentation.html and the
https://github.com/networkupstools/ConfigExamples/releases/latest/download/ConfigExamples.pdf
book
:)

Hope this helps,
Jim Klimov
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