[Nut-upsuser] SOS : Help needed for UPS Centralion Blazer 2000VA USB

[Arnaud Quette]

bonjour Guillaume,

2006/4/11, Guillaume JAOUEN <guillaume.jaouen at rlconsultant.fr>:
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> Hello,
>
> I leave a mail here because I can't find any solution in order to get the
> nut working with this UPS despite I search everywhere on the net.
>
> I've bought this UPS recently after that an MGE-UPS Ellipse 1200 USB burn.

2 questions:
- what do you mean exactly by "bum"?
- were unsatisfied with Ellipse, and more generally with MGE, to
switch to another brand?

> I've those information about the UPS :
>
> Reseller link : http://www.alpha-power-technologie.com/images/GPi-usb.pdf
>
> In his catalogue, the product is called Global Power GPi-2000BZ
>
> This UPS has monitoring software called Winpower
> 2.0(http://www.ups-software-download.com/) which is developed by
> Centralion.
>
> My system is a Debian Sarge 3.1 with a 2.4.32 kernel and built-in HID USB
> support. (this kernel was working perfectly well with the MGE-UPS HID UPS
> Ellipse 1200 and nut driver newhidups)
>
> I've tried to set up winpower under debian but get an RMI server failure at
> boot. I also see that the setup script wasn't set correctly for Debian,
> even
> after fixed PATH variables and right rc.d scripts...
>
> So I went back on nut and tried to solve this problem.
>
> On the Centralion Web site I found an UPS that seems to be the same as mine
> (blazer 2000VA Spec.
> http://www.centralion.com/html/product/back-Product-ups-blazer1000-spec.htm
> and brochure
> http://www.centralion.com/dm-download/Blazer1-2K/Blazer1K-2K.zip)
>
> This UPS use megatec protocol over USB I think. Below are details catch
> from the console :
>
> When I plug the UPS on the USB port I get :
> # lsusb
> Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0665:5161
>
> If I do cat /dev/usb/hiddev0 the system seems to be reading on the device
> but no characters appears on the console...
>
> If I unplug the UPS the cat /dev/usb/hiddev0 command stop working so I
> think the system see the UPS on this device.
>
> The usbview show me this on the device :
>
> USB to Serial
> Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
> Speed: 1,5 Mb/s (low)
> USB Version: 1.10
> Device Class: 00(ifc )
> Device Subclass: 00
> Device Protocol: 00
> Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8
> Number of Configurations: 1
> Vendor Id: 0665
> Product Id: 5161
> Revision Number:0.02
>
> Config Number: 1
>         Number of Interfaces: 1
>         Attributes: 80
>         MaxPower Needed: 100mA
>
>         Interface Number: 0
>                 Name: hid
>                 Alternate Number: 0
>                 Class: 03(HID )
>                 Sub Class: 0
>                 Protocol: 0
>                 Number of Endpoints: 1
>
>                         Endpoint Adderss: 81
>                         Direction: in
>                         Attribute: 3
>                         Type: Int.
>                         Max Packet Size: 8
>                         Interval: 32ms
>
> If someone could help me, it'll be really nice, as I've tried newhidups -
> fentoups - energized drivers without success.

for serial, there is a blazer driver that will be replaced by megatec
(only available from subversion).

for usb, you might try newhidups in generic mode (-x generic), with
debug enabled (-DDD)

Arnaud
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