Date: 29 Oct 2002 03:48:40 +0000 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Craig Boston <craig@meoqu.gank.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB UPS (was Re: power must400) Message-ID: <1035863321.77698.90.camel@chowder.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1035861627.47534.17.camel@darth-laptop> References: <1035801882021004@caramail.com> <1035850145.77698.35.camel@chowder.localdomain> <1035861627.47534.17.camel@darth-laptop>
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On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 03:20, Craig Boston wrote: > Speaking of UPSes, has anyone looked at the new APC's with the USB > interface? Under Win2k they show up just like a laptop battery and give > you not only AC status but cool stuff like battery charge level, etc. > > Looks like some sort of HID device, but usbhidctl didn't give me > anything I could decipher. Maybe I'll see if there's any known specs or > try to do some backward engineering. Not sure what to interface it to > though (APM? ACPI? Something else?) The Linux port of NUT does have an experimental driver for APC USB UPSen.. See http://www.exploits.org/nut/ I haven't tried it - I only have serial ones, but if you ship one to me (inc shipping 8-) I'll write support :) :) NUT is quite nice because it has split front and backends so you have have a program logging to a text file, one to shut your PC down (and any other PC's on the same UPS) and a CGI client to see the UPS status. All rather neat. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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