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> Right, I forgot to mention that the explore mode is not meant to send data to upsd - it just generates debug output. And it is written in the man page... that I do had read! > There are a few extra variables that might be read/write, but I don't see the usual ones that translate into commands (such as UPS.BatterySystem.Battery.Test or UPS.PowerSummary.DelayBeforeShutdown). > >

...For anyone else casually interested, this seems to be a good introduction: http://shubham.chaudhary.xyz/blog/2013/11/09/kde-solid-namespace/ And this bug seems to show that "solid-hardware list" is talking to UPower for battery information: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2015/03/msg00554.html Before UPower came along, we had a version of usbhid-ups which was a bridge between the UPS and DeviceKit Power. It was, unfortunately, an either-or proposition: you could have the UPS show up in the GUI, or you could have the traditional NUT upsmon/upsd/driver stack, and all of the network c...