<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3369">As an update to my first message, sent July 13, I am totally out of my league.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3404">I installed nut (apt-get install nut) on Debian Jessie. Went through the process of modifying </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3448">ups.conf and copied the udev ( cp /lib/udev/rules.d/52-nut-usbups.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ )</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3597">When I ran upsdrvctl start I got a message about the usbhid-ups driver. It appears that NUT</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3594">is not configured with the driver. The instructions in the man page is all greek to me. As I </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3595">said before, I am not a programmer. I suspect that NUT might need to be compiled with that</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3596">driver, but I really don't know. Any instructions would have to be written so that ANYBODY</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span>could follow them, not just programmers. So I think it best if I just forget about the whole thing. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span>I'm sure your software is great, but not for a noob !</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><span>John</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3335" dir="ltr"><br></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3334"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3332">"<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436831088506_3333">Science is organized common sense</i>. Philosophy is organized piffle" <br>-attributed to Bertrand Russel</div></div></body></html>