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Hello, Upon upgrading to the Debian package of NUT 2.2.0 my APC Back-UPS Pro is no longer recognized. Here is the output if I try to run the driver manually: ----------- # /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -DDD -x vendorid=051d -x productid=0002 -a foxstarups Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.2.0-) debug level is '3' No appropriate HID device found No matching HID UPS found ----------- The output is the same if I omit vendorid and productid options. These numbers are taken from lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: I...

...an NUT packages version 2.0.3 (current in Debian/sid). I am using the newhidups driver with an APC Back-UPS BR 800. The init.d script wasn't functioning, so I backtracked to running upsd manually and I get: foxstar:/etc/nut# upsd -u root Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.3 Can't connect to UPS [foxstarups] (newhidups-auto): No such file or directory Synchronizing..... <CTRL-C> My ups.conf contains: [foxstarups] driver = newhidups port = auto offdelay = 600 desc = "foxstar UPS" It seems that upsd is concatenating the driver and port fields with a hy...

Okay, now that I've got NUT up and running with the newhidups driver, I can give it a quick shakedown. Most of the values look good, but are few are off. Here's what I get: elrond@foxstar:~$ upsc foxstarups@localhost battery.charge: 100 battery.charge.low: 10 battery.charge.warning: 50 battery.date: 3150/08/01 battery.mfr.date: 2005/03/22 battery.runtime: 1935 battery.runtime.low: 120 battery.temperature: 302.0 battery.voltage: 27.0 battery.voltage.nominal: 24.0 driver.name: newhidups driver.paramete...