Nut upsuser - Apr 2006 - Re: F6H500ukUNV working with fentonups driver

Hi Patrick,

2006/4/2, Patrick Beard
<p.beard@blueyonder.co.uk>:
> Hi Arnaud,
>
> Just wanted to let you know the the Belkin F6H500ukUNV is working for me
> with the fentonups driver.
>
>
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?IWAction=Load&Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=202840
>
> I originally tried it with the genericups driver with upstype=7 but this
> gave me 'On battery' 'Low Battery' all the time. I went
through all the
> upstype settings but none worked.
> I then tried the 'bestups' driver but this never worked.
>
> However the fentonups driver does seem to work for me. It correctly
> identifies online and on battery events. It also recognises the 'Low
> Battery' event.
> One thing I have noticed is that it always reports the battery charge as
> 100% - but this might be down to the ups. I've never used this type
> before so don't know if it does report its battery charge.
imho, this is due to the fact that fentonups has a lookup table for
each models, defining the way to compute some values, like
battery.charge...
> I tested it by pulling the supply to the ups. It got the 'on  and then
> the 'low battery' upsmon then shutdown my system. The ups however
> remained on.
the ups shutoff (hardware ups shutdown) seems not to be working.
Carlos might have more ideas on the cause...
> I'm using the Ubuntu Dapper 2.0.3-4build1 nut package
>
> The Belkin is connected using the serial cable but this is through a
> usb/serial convertor. so the port is /dev/ttyUSB0
>
> The fentonups driver identifies the Belkin as 'BELKIN PowerPure
> aster' (Not a mis-type it is 'aster')
probably a fentonups bug (I've previously seen that kind of truncation...)
> Anyway - I just wanted to let you know and also thankyou for you work on
> nut.
as there are chances that the fentonups will also be replaced by the
megatec driver, can you give a try to it with the NUT 2.1 in
subversion:
http://eu1.networkupstools.org/source.html

@Carlos: can you check to update the compat list, and further testing
with Patrick?

Arnaud
--
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/

On 4/3/06, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > The Belkin is connected using the serial cable but this is through a
> > usb/serial convertor. so the port is /dev/ttyUSB0
> >
> > The fentonups driver identifies the Belkin as 'BELKIN PowerPure
> > aster' (Not a mis-type it is 'aster')
>
> probably a fentonups bug (I've previously seen that kind of
truncation...)
The identification string has fields with a fixed number of characters
(space filled), maybe "fentonups" is just splitting them wrong.
> > Anyway - I just wanted to let you know and also thankyou for you work
on
> > nut.
>
> as there are chances that the fentonups will also be replaced by the
> megatec driver, can you give a try to it with the NUT 2.1 in
> subversion:
> http://eu1.networkupstools.org/source.html
>
> @Carlos: can you check to update the compat list, and further testing
> with Patrick?
Patrick, can you try the "powermust" driver? Maybe it calculates the
battery charge better (if it doesn't, you can send me the output of
"upsc" when the UPS is fully charged, and when it hits low battery).

--
Carlos Rodrigues