Nut upsuser - Oct 2007 - Silence Beeper => Which small UPS's actually support it?

Hello,
          I'm looking for a UPS that the beeper can be silenced with nut 
via ups.beeper.status variable for a HTPC close to bedrooms. 

    I have googled extensively and there is not a lot of information 
about which UPS's actually support this feature.  There are few 
references to UPS's that apparently list ups.beeper.status as being 
available, but without actually being software configurable such as:
 http://www.757.org/~joat/wiki/index.php/Linux_and_the_APC500_UPS

One lead is Belkin 650 VA UPS, but I'd like a few more choices.
http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?1,2019986,2019986

Unfortunately I live in 240v part of the world, so the number of 
brands/models available is relatively limited, with APC, Belkin, 
CyberPower, HP, KME, OPTI-UPS, Powerware, Upsonic being available.

Could anyone please provide information on any of the above brands of 
small UPS's that do _actually_ support permanently switching off the 
beeper. 

Thanks

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> I'm looking for a UPS that the beeper can be silenced with nut
> via ups.beeper.status variable for a HTPC close to bedrooms.
You should not be looking for the 'ups.beeper.status' variable, this is
supposed to be read-only (although it not always is, for all drivers).
Instead, you want to lookup the 'beeper.disable' command that has made
it
into nut-2.2.1-pre1.

http://www.networkupstools.org/source/2.2/testing/nut-2.2.1-pre1.tar.gz

Before that, the 'beeper.(on|off|mute)' commands were a mess and
can't be
relied upon.
>     I have googled extensively and there is not a lot of information
> about which UPS's actually support this feature.  There are few
> references to UPS's that apparently list ups.beeper.status as being
> available, but without actually being software configurable such as:
>  http://www.757.org/~joat/wiki/index.php/Linux_and_the_APC500_UPS
See above. An alternative would be to just remove the beeper from the UPS.
I did that for exactly the same reasons on a UPS that didn't support
permanently silencing the beeper. It's a simple and 100% effective
solution, although it will probably void your warranty.
> One lead is Belkin 650 VA UPS, but I'd like a few more choices.
> http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?1,2019986,2019986
>
> Unfortunately I live in 240v part of the world, so the number of
> brands/models available is relatively limited, with APC, Belkin,
> CyberPower, HP, KME, OPTI-UPS, Powerware, Upsonic being available.
Many USB HID models will probably support this feature. But remember that
the fact that a command is made available in a driver, doesn't
neccessarily mean it is supported on *all* models for which it can be
used. So you'd better try this out before going to sleep.

Best regards, Arjen
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