[Nut-upsdev] smart1050slt by tripp lite

chance fulton chance.fulton at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 18:44:00 UTC 2010


Original Message
>I have 2 SmartUOS1050SLT's that apparently protocol 3004, has there
>been
>any progress on getting these units supported under nut? I am running
>version 2.4.1, and get the following output when starting the driver.

>#lsusb
>Bus 005 Device 002: ID 09ae:0001 Tripp Lite 

># upsdrvctl -DDDD start
>Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.1
>Starting UPS: tripplite
>exec: /lib/nut/tripplite_usb -a tripplite
>Network UPS Tools - Tripp Lite OMNIVS / SMARTPRO driver 0.20 (2.4.1)
>Warning: This is an experimental driver.
>Some features may not function correctly.

>Detected a UPS: TRIPP LITE/TRIPP LITE SMART1050SLT     
>Unknown input voltage range: 0x02
>Unknown number of switchable load banks: 0x00
>Unit ID: 0
>Unknown protocol (3004)Attached to Tripp Lite SMART1050SLT
>Unknown value for s[1]: 0x01

Reply:from clepple

>No progress - we have not received enough information from owners of
>Protocol 3004 units to proceed. From what little I can tell, 3004 uses
>binary values instead of ASCII (e.g. 0x01 instead of 0x31 to represent
>the number 1). Also, there seem to be other minor differences.

>The procedure for adding support for a new UPS protocol involves a lot
>of testing, and is best done without any critical loads attached (e.g.
>servers that you were trying to protect with the UPS in the first
>place). If you can take one unit offline for testing, we can work with
>you to add support, but there is always the danger that a wrong
>command will shut down the UPS before the attached computers are
>expecting it.


Moving this to the dev list so that people can benefit from the
discussion.

Thanks, 







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