Hi all, First of all, I would like to thank everyone who was involved in the development of NUT. Although it took me some time to set it up, now it appears to be working very well. Thanks for the good software! This is my success report for an APC Back-UPS RS 800: khali at mahadeva:~> upsc rs800 battery.charge: 100 battery.charge.low: 10 battery.charge.warning: 50 battery.date: 2001/09/25 battery.mfr.date: 2007/11/25 battery.runtime: 2460 battery.runtime.low: 120 battery.temperature: 28 battery.type: PbAc battery.voltage: 27.4 battery.voltage.nominal: 24.0 driver.name: usbhid-ups driver.parameter.pollfreq: 30 driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2 driver.parameter.port: /dev/usb/hiddev0 driver.version: 2.2.1 driver.version.data: APC HID 0.92 driver.version.internal: 0.32 input.voltage: 238.0 input.voltage.nominal: 230 output.voltage: 230.0 output.voltage.nominal: 230.0 ups.beeper.status: disabled ups.delay.shutdown: -1 ups.firmware: 9.o4 .I ups.firmware.aux: o4 ups.load: 26.0 ups.mfr: American Power Conversion ups.mfr.date: 2007/11/25 ups.model: Back-UPS BR 800 ups.productid: 0002 ups.serial: [hidden] ups.status: OL ups.test.result: No test initiated ups.vendorid: 051d khali at mahadeva:~> Everything looks OK as far as I can tell, except for battery.date. If the string is returned directly be the UPS then I guess there's not much that can be done though. For what it's worth, the utility that comes with the UPS (PowerChute Personal Edition) doesn't seem to display this information (or at least I couldn't find it.) I'm not too sure about ups.delay.shutdown either; a negative value there looks strange, but maybe it has a special meaning? As far as the hardware is concerned, the Back-UPS RS 800 seems to work reasonably well for my limited needs. My only concern is its power consumption, which I measured between 7 and 11 Watts, when my previous model (APC Back-UPS 500) needed only 2 Watts. -- Jean Delvare
Jean Delvare wrote:> Everything looks OK as far as I can tell, except for battery.date. If > the string is returned directly be the UPS then I guess there's not > much that can be done though.This is the date read from the UPS and as far as I can see, it is read-only. Maybe it's writeable, but then someone (preferably an owner) has to change the 'apc-hid.c' subdriver. I doubt it's worth the effort however.> For what it's worth, the utility that > comes with the UPS (PowerChute Personal Edition) doesn't seem to > display this information (or at least I couldn't find it.) > > I'm not too sure about ups.delay.shutdown either; a negative value > there looks strange, but maybe it has a special meaning?It has. This is a counter that counts down from a delay value. When it reaches '0', the UPS is shutdown. The value '-1' means that the counter is currently inactive.> As far as the hardware is concerned, the Back-UPS RS 800 seems to work > reasonably well for my limited needs. My only concern is its power > consumption, which I measured between 7 and 11 Watts, when my previous > model (APC Back-UPS 500) needed only 2 Watts.There is nothing we can do about that. Complain to the manufacturer about that. Best regards, Arjen