[mythtvnz] Possibly OT: UPS question

[Steve Holdoway]

I'll agree with that. I got my replacement batteries off trademe and
they're been great.

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 20:04 +1300, criggie at criggie.dyndns.org wrote:
> AAARGH!!!   Sodding piece of crap they are.   They work fine as a power 
> supplier, and its good they added a cooling fan, but the USB one is 
> totally standards non-compliant.
> 
> The best suggestion I have is to swap it for the older serial one, or 
> try the latest bleeding edge NUT with the hid driver, whatever its called.
> 
> Or return it, and buy new batteries for your APC.  If that's scarey 
> sounding let me know - I think you're in Christchurch.
> 
> 
> BTW in theory anything that talks to /dev/ttySx should talk to 
> /dev/ttyUSBx just the same.  The dynamix one breaks the USB standard but 
> I don't recall exactly why.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/01/11 19:17, Robin Gilks wrote:
> > Greetings all
> >
> > I've just replaced (or at least trying to!!) the  UPS on my backend. My
> > preference is to have all those disks let down carefully in the event of a
> > power failure:)
> >
> > I've got a Dynamix 1700 that uses a USB connection back to the PC. I've
> > tried NUT which always worked fine with my APC UPS but no go with this
> > one.
> >
> > I've also tried the included software as well but that wants to talk to a
> > serial port on the UPS - not a lot of good when its a USB port!!
> >
> > Anyone any clues on how to drive this beast or does it go back?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> 
> 

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