similar to: UPS serial protocol

I think I had a misconception about something.. My goal was that someone could use our UPS with the "default" UPS driver in NUT right out of the box, so they wouldn't have to alter any NUT code to get it working. NUT config files, yes, but not NUT code. I thought that if I put in the ups.conf file that I wanted to use the usbhid-ups driver, and then put our vendor and product ID,

On Feb 20, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > Instead, it seems that the usbhid-ups driver will search through its own list of known devices with vid/pid, and won't "match" my device unless that device exists as an entry in its device table. Is that correct? More or less, yes. It turns out that UPS vendors all have somewhat different

> On Sep 9, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > > linux-5048:/home/rtd # ldd /usr/local/ups/bin/usbhid-ups > linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff403fc000) > libusb-0.1.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libusb-0.1.so.4 (0x00007f7c34b56000) The last line seems to indicate that it is the real libusb-0.1, not -compat. What kernel version on openSUSE? --

For fun, if you want to see where the system thinks it is linking a library from, you can use "ldconfig -p" and it will give you a path to all known libraries that it can find. If you have one loaded, and it can't find it (odd directory, etc.) you can always amend "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" the same way as PKG_CONFIG_PATH I mentioned earlier . . . . PKG . . . is for the build

Ok, so please correct me if I?m wrong?. The quickest way to get my UPS running with nut (as the current release exists) is to either: 1) Add my vendor and device ID to the openups_usb_device_table OR 2) Create my own driver file, and then add that driver to the usbhid-ups subdriver_list And then recompile/install. Obviously #1 will be easier at this point, but I understand that it

I found something particularly strange while trying out different things: I started up upsdrvctl, upsd, and upsmon. I then stopped upsdrvctl, and tried starting the usbhid-ups driver a few times. Each time I executed the driver, it indicated an instance was already running, stopped it, and then started it again....which is what it should do. I then added -DDDD to the command....and then it

On Sep 9, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure which USB lib it compiled against. What does this return? ldd /path/to/driver -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20150909/ba08f4c0/attachment.html>

Rob - Just stepping in from the sidelines . . . with a few tidbits. Nut uses pkgconfig to find and identify stuff as part of it's build . . . So, depending on where your libusb install went, if it wasn't in the default "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" setting, it won't be found. Much like other shell variables, you can adjust that setting to find anything you like . . . IE

On Sep 10, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > > Charles, > > 3.16.6.-2-desktop I think that corresponds to this file: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/usb/core/devio.c?v=3.16 (but I don't see anything obvious there) What does "lsusb -vvv -d 2a37:" return? Usually I'd say run that as root when the driver isn't running,

I am running tests on my system and UPS, making sure that it is reliably able to come up, detect power loss, shutdown safely, and then come back up when the power returns. It does that MOST of the time. However, a significant part of the time, the system comes up, and then doesn't respond to loss of power. Doing some checking, I find that the reason is because upsd never started. Capturing

Ok, I tried this from scratch on a fresh 2.7.2 directory. I followed the web instructions, specifically: + I generated the new subdriver for my UPS (rtd-hid.*) based on PATH info. + I put them in the drivers subdir + I added the include line (#include rtd-hid.h) in usbhid-ups.c (specifically in the #ifndef SHUT_MODE section) + I added &rtd_subdriver, to the subdriver_list in usbhid-ups.c

Is there a specific file with the version number in it that I would modify, or do you just mean the file names? Sincerely, Rob Groner From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:23 AM To: Rob Groner Cc: nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] New sub-driver submission process timeframe? On Mar 9, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Rob Groner

And now....suddenly, and so far unexplainably....it works again. I did the same as before, installed openSUSE 13.1 from scratch, then installed the libusb* libraries. And now...it works, so far reliably. I'm certain that there is some micro-step I started doing different than last time. For example, I used to install jedit from the command line after install, but I had started installing

On Sep 18, 2015, at 2:45 PM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > > Well, I've spent a couple hours on this, unable to figure it out. I removed the libusb-compat-devel package using zypper. And I've downloaded, built, and installed libusb from sourceforge. But trying to configure nut now I get "USB drivers requested, but libusb not found", no matter what I put

On Mar 9, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > 1) Autoreconf *must* be run, and not ./configure? I had thought that putting in my *.c and *.h files and making the makefile changes and then executing ./configure for the first time would be enough. Each tool serves a different purpose. autoreconf (and NUT's autogen.sh, by inclusion) generates the ./configure

On Sep 8, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > > 0.005927 Device matches > 0.005940 failed to claim USB device: Device or resource busy > 0.005954 failed to detach kernel driver from USB device: No such file or directory Rob, this is a bit of a tough one to track down. The "Device or resource busy" message can either come from a kernel

We're wrapping up our first version of the UPS we're making, and so I'm going over the USB code and came across one loose end. The serial number of the unit (iSerialNumber according to the USB HID doc) is a constant, but it's of course a different constant for each UPS. Right now we store that value in the Flash on the device, but the only way I've seen to pass the serial

On Mar 9, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > I don?t have any problem with pointing customers to a branch they can clone via git and compile. I know this sounds pedantic, but while the snapshots correspond to specific branches and commits in git, they are simpler for end users to build than the git branches, since they include the ./configure script and a few

On Sep 21, 2015, at 9:39 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote: > > I didn't think to look for a log (attached), but now looking in it, I don't see anything more than I already thought I knew. It's as cryptic as configure itself. > > It does reference the line in the configure where the test for USB failed, but I'd already been looking in there. I

Well, having spent a decent amount of time trying to get my driver file added into the Makefile build system (and failing), I've decided that for now, simply adding that one line to the openups-hid.c file and recompiling is the best route to go. When I can no longer live with the limited nature of the openups-hid driver, I'll revisit writing our own. Thanks for the helps. Sincerely,