Nut upsuser - Oct 2007 - Outlet switching on the MGE Pulsar 1500 using usbhid-ups on FreeBSD

I am running NUT 2.2.0 compiled from the FreeBSD ports tree.

[inchoate 14:50] ~ >upsc ups1 at localhost
battery.charge: 59
battery.charge.low: 20
battery.charge.restart: 0
battery.runtime: 6350
battery.type: PbAc
battery.voltage: 43.0
driver.name: usbhid-ups
driver.parameter.offdelay: 120
driver.parameter.ondelay: 13
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.version: 2.2.0
driver.version.data: MGE HID 1.0
driver.version.internal: 0.30
input.frequency: 50.0
input.voltage: 243.0
outlet.0.desc: Main Outlet
outlet.0.id: 0
outlet.0.switchable: yes
outlet.1.autoswitch.charge.low: 0
outlet.1.delay.shutdown: 2592000
outlet.1.delay.start: 1
outlet.1.desc: PowerShare Outlet 1
outlet.1.id: 1
outlet.1.status: off
outlet.1.switchable: yes
outlet.2.autoswitch.charge.low: 0
outlet.2.delay.shutdown: 2592000
outlet.2.delay.start: 1
outlet.2.desc: PowerShare Outlet 2
outlet.2.id: 2
outlet.2.status: off
outlet.2.switchable: yes
output.current: 0.00
output.frequency: 0.0
output.voltage: 0.0
output.voltage.nominal: 43.0
ups.beeper.status: enabled
ups.delay.shutdown: -1
ups.delay.start: -1
ups.load: 0
ups.mfr: MGE UPS SYSTEMS
ups.model: Pulsar 1500
ups.power.nominal: 1500
ups.productid: ffff
ups.serial: 1Y3H33005
ups.status: OL CHRG OFF
ups.test.interval: 604800
ups.test.result: No test initiated
ups.vendorid: 0463

I don't know how to switch the outlets on & off though.. The only 
parameters appear to be relating to delayed shutdown & startup.

I managed to set the low battery level OK though (and then shut my PC 
down by mistake :) so I can actually set values.. Is it just that 
usbhid-ups doesn't support outlet switching? (yet hopefully :)

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> I managed to set the low battery level OK though (and then shut my PC
> down by mistake :) so I can actually set values.. Is it just that
> usbhid-ups doesn't support outlet switching? (yet hopefully :)
Outlet switching is supported, only you need to use 'upscmd' for that
(see
the man page). The output of

    upscmd -l <upsname>

will tell you which commands are supported for your UPS. In newer NUT
versions, even a little description will be displayed (we forgot that when
these commands were added), but you can probably do without.

Best regards, Arjen
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