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Hi, everyone, I've recently bought a UPS from Mecer. This is a South African brand that basically resells Mustek hardware, and this UPS is no exception; it's a Mustek product. It does come with software for Linux, but that is terrible (the background process that monitors the UPS is written in Java and needs a terminal to start properly, so you can't run it from a startup script...

Hi, everyone, I've recently bought a UPS from Mecer. This is a South African brand that basically resells Mustek hardware, and this UPS is no exception; it's a Mustek product. It does come with software for Linux, but that is terrible (the background process that monitors the UPS is written in Java and needs a terminal to start properly, so you can't run it from a startup script...

Some fellow in South Africa is blogging his move to Linux: http://frankvw.livejournal.com/195867.html An excerpt: "There is a huge database of applications available that lists every application that has been tested with Wine, and it tells you how well (or badly) it runs. I'm amazed how many Windows applications will work with Wine flawlessly. I remembered Wine...

Hi, Charles, On Wed, 2 May 2007 07:58:08 -0400, you wrote: > > Will that be enough to make it useable as a contribution? I believe > > the more sensible values for 36V UPS'es will be useful to other models > > than the one I have, too. > > Sounds good, but I don't think I saw it hit the list yet... I now have the following in megatec.c: static BatteryVolts

And now for something completely different... :-) And yes, it's off-topic to this particular forum as it's not about NUT development. <ducking> Is there anyone around here who knows his way inside the hardware of an APC Smart-UPS? The APC support division will not reveal _any_ details or service information, and the only descriptive documentation I've found on the Web is in