[mythtvnz] Possibly OT: UPS question

[criggie at criggie.dyndns.org]

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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Criggie

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