<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Jul 8, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Brandt, Dieter <<a href="mailto:dieter.brandt@aegps.com">dieter.brandt@aegps.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">we are developer and producer of UPS devices. Now we would like to integrate a small UPS via USB connection to NAS systems. We heart from third party that we need a special driver for NAS systems to work fine and to display also the company name and UPS device name in the web page / software of NAS.</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Each NAS vendor has their own timeline for integrating new versions of NUT into their software stack. Is there a specific NAS system you are interested in?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Currently we have a UPS with USB and our own VID (0x2B2D) and PID (0xFFFF). It should be compatible to NUT.</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When you say it should be compatible, do you mean that the UPS implements a protocol that NUT already supports?</div><div><br></div><div>There are several USB UPS standards, including one formal standard (USB HID Power Device Class [PDC]) and several de facto serial-over-USB standards. I see one AEG listing on the current compatibility list: <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/ddl/AEG_Power_Solutions/">http://www.networkupstools.org/ddl/AEG_Power_Solutions/</a> - is it the same Blazer/PhoenixTec protocol? What UPS control software do you recommend to your customers?</div><div><br></div><div>If it is one of the supported protocols, often it is just a matter of adding your USB VID/PID to the tables in the existing NUT drivers.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">What have we to do to integrate our UPS device into NUT as well as NAS devices now? What are the steps?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Who can help us?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">Who can do this?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">What does it cost?</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The NUT project is currently supported by volunteers (with some help from Eaton). It costs nothing but time, although you could also hire a third-party contractor to help with the integration.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US">What could be the timeline for integration?<o:p></o:p></span></div></blockquote><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>With volunteers, we do not commit to timelines. An informal goal is to put together a formal NUT release once or twice a year, but since the source code is available under the terms of the GPL, your company could also provide source and binaries for an interim NUT release that supports your products.</div></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">IMPORTANT NOTICE. This email and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use or disseminate the information.</span></i></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Although I realize that the footer of your email is probably a company standard, I feel compelled to point out that the <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html">best support</a> in NUT comes from UPS protocols that can be <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/ups-protocols.html">published</a> and freely distributed. There is plenty of room for innovation in the algorithms running on the UPS embedded controller, but to be compatible with an open-source project like NUT, the protocol cannot be considered confidential or proprietary. If it is impractical to publish your current protocol documentation, I would recommend looking at HID PDC: <a href="http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/pdcv10.pdf">http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/pdcv10.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div>-- </div><div>Charles Lepple</div><div>clepple@gmail</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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