Nut upsuser - Feb 2014 - Eaton Powerware 5110 - some stats not reported

Hi all,

I've hooked up an Eaton Powerware 5110 to Ubuntu 13.10 server, and 
configured nut appropriately.  The cgi scripts are working fine, but on 
upsstats.cgi, the Batter, UPS Temp and Battery Runtime fields are all 
blank - and there are no entries for these values in the 'All data'
tree.

I've checked the man page for bcmxcp_usb 
(http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/bcmxcp_usb.html), there isn't 
any information there about not reporting these values, have I done 
something wrong, or is this driver not able to get this information from 
this UPS?

Thanks,
Greg

Run the driver with -DDDDD and see what variables it picks up.  I have 
noted that with the Prestige 9 in bcmxcp, some variables are not 
consistent within models, and had to do some gentle remapping to get 
things to work correctly.

- Tim

On 02/12/2014 06:46 PM, Greg Vickers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've hooked up an Eaton Powerware 5110 to Ubuntu 13.10 server, and
> configured nut appropriately.  The cgi scripts are working fine, but on
> upsstats.cgi, the Batter, UPS Temp and Battery Runtime fields are all
> blank - and there are no entries for these values in the 'All data'
tree.
>
> I've checked the man page for bcmxcp_usb
> (http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/bcmxcp_usb.html), there isn't
> any information there about not reporting these values, have I done
> something wrong, or is this driver not able to get this information from
> this UPS?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
>
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On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Tim Dawson wrote:
> Run the driver with -DDDDD and see what variables it picks up.  I have
noted that with the Prestige 9 in bcmxcp, some variables are not consistent
within models, and had to do some gentle remapping to get things to work
correctly.
Tim, is this the issue you mentioned on 2014-02-02 with blocks 0x9 and 0x13?
I'll reply to that email.
> On 02/12/2014 06:46 PM, Greg Vickers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've hooked up an Eaton Powerware 5110 to Ubuntu 13.10 server, and
>> configured nut appropriately.  The cgi scripts are working fine, but on
>> upsstats.cgi, the Batter, UPS Temp and Battery Runtime fields are all
>> blank - and there are no entries for these values in the 'All
data' tree.
Greg,

From http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/nut-server it looks like you have 2.6.4.
There was a big rewrite of the bcmxcp driver core which became part of 2.7.1.

It might be possible to drop in the bcmxcp driver binary from Ubuntu trusty - I
wouldn't force-install the whole package, just in case they changed things
regarding init scripts and other libraries, but the drivers should be pretty
self-contained. Or you could build just that driver from source, making sure to
use the same paths as Ubuntu uses to build their binaries. Let me know if
you're interested in trying one of those routes (admittedly, it makes for a
bit of a Frankenstein system) and I can explain in more detail.

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