[Nut-upsuser] GE EP series UPS
Arnaud Quette
aquette.dev at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 17:31:34 UTC 2011
Hi Danilo,
this mail is for Arjen:
I've not gone through this thread, but is there any reason not to commit
this patch (ie issues with phoenix that need more work)?
cheers,
Arno
2011/4/14 Danilo Godec <danilo.godec at agenda.si>
> Looking at 'man blazer' I found out that there is a fourth subdriver -
> phoenix. Guess what - it works!
>
> First I changed my ups.conf to:
>
> [myups]
> driver = blazer_usb
> port = /dev/ttyS0
> vendorid = 14f0
> productid = 00c9
> subdriver = phoenix
> desc = "Local UPS"
>
>
> That worked!
>
> So I added this to 'drivers/blazer_ups.c':
>
> diff -Nur nut-2.6.0/drivers/blazer_usb.c nut-2.6.0-new/drivers/blazer_usb.c
> --- nut-2.6.0/drivers/blazer_usb.c 2010-12-24 14:24:29.000000000 +0100
> +++ nut-2.6.0-new/drivers/blazer_usb.c 2011-04-14 13:59:17.074896771 +0200
> @@ -294,6 +294,12 @@
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +static void *phoenix_subdriver(void)
> +{
> + subdriver_command = &phoenix_command;
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
>
> static usb_device_id_t blazer_usb_id[] = {
> { USB_DEVICE(0x05b8, 0x0000), &cypress_subdriver }, /* Agiler
> UPS */
> @@ -302,6 +308,7 @@
> { USB_DEVICE(0x0665, 0x5161), &cypress_subdriver }, /* Belkin
> F6C1200-UNV */
> { USB_DEVICE(0x06da, 0x0003), &ippon_subdriver }, /* Mustek
> Powermust */
> { USB_DEVICE(0x0f03, 0x0001), &cypress_subdriver }, /* Unitek
> Alpha 1200Sx */
> + { USB_DEVICE(0x14f0, 0x00c9), &phoenix_subdriver }, /* GE EP
> series */
> /* end of list */
> {-1, -1, NULL}
> };
>
>
> Now I don't need to add 'vendorid', 'productid' and 'subdriver' options to
> ups.conf and it still works! :)
>
> Danilo
>
> PS: Mind you - I'm no programmer so all this is mostly guesswork... :)
>
>
>
>
>
> On 04/14/2011 11:38 AM, Danilo Godec wrote:
>
> Now I'm trying to get it working with USB (the UPS has both and it's
> getting harder to find machines with serial ports) - if it works with *
> blazer_ser*, should it also work with *blazer_usb*?
>
> When I plug the USB in, 'dmesg' shows this:
>
> [68527.748033] usb 4-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address
> 3
> [68527.922036] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=14f0, idProduct=00c9
> [68527.922048] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1,
> SerialNumber=0
> [68527.922058] usb 4-1: Product: GE EP series UPS
> [68527.922065] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: GE
> [68527.922217] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [68527.939208] generic-usb 0003:14F0:00C9.0002: hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID
> v1.11 Device [GE GE EP series UPS] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-1/input0
>
>
> and */dev/usb/hiddev0* appears.
>
> So I tried with this:
>
> [myups]
> driver = blazer_usb
> port = /dev/usb/hiddev0
> desc = "Local UPS"
>
> */usr/lib/ups/driver/blazer_usb -a myups*
> Network UPS Tools - Megatec/Q1 protocol USB driver 0.03 (2.6.0)
> libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/001/001: Permission denied.
> libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
> libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/002/001: Permission denied.
> libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
> libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/003/001: Permission denied.
> libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
> libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/004/001: Permission denied.
> libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
> No supported UPS detected
>
> and */dev/usb/hiddev0* disappears.
>
> I added the following to '/etc/udev/rules.d/52-nut-usbups.rules':
>
> # GE EP series
> ATTR{idVendor}=="14f0", ATTR{idProduct}=="00c9", MODE="664", GROUP="daemon"
>
> I also edited the 'blazer_usb.c' file and added this:
>
> { USB_DEVICE(0x14f0, 0x00c9), &krauler_subdriver }, /* GE EP
> series */
>
> (also tried other subdrivers - cypress, ippon, ...).
>
> I also manually change permissions on '/dev/bus/usb/*/*' to 666, but it
> also didn't help.
>
> Anything else to try?
>
>
> Danilo
>
>
>
> On 04/13/2011 12:39 AM, Danilo Godec wrote:
>
> The short story - it seems that GE EP series is (somewhat) supported by the
> *blazer_ser* driver (haven't tried the USB connection yet). I had to use
> the 'cablepower = none' option as GE only uses TX and RX.
>
>
> The longer story - I 'sniffed' the RS232 communication between the GE
> supplied Java software 'upspilot' and UPS. From that I found out the baud
> rate (2400) and I learned about a couple of commands (not knowing what they
> mean):
>
> - CB24
> - WH
> - Q1
> - Q4
> - Q7
> - QS
> - ...
>
> Then I user 'minicom' to try these commands out and this is what I got:
>
> Q1 -> (232.0 140.0 220.0 001 50.0 2.27 31.0 00000000
> Q4 -> (232.0 243.0 000.0 001 220.0 49.9 001 50.0 342 343 273.0 31.0 LM
> Q7 -> 07102218014 V_01
>
> OK, I'm getting somewhere - but I have to figure out what all of this
> means. So decide to unpack some .jar files and have a look in there. A
> friend helped by 'de-compiling' all .class files and using 'grep' I searched
> for these commands.
>
> There is a file named 'UpsProt.class', which (de-compiled) contains this:
>
> /* 25 */ Santak1Class.command[0] = "Q";
> /* 30 */ Santak1Class.command[1] = "Q1";
> /* 35 */ Santak1Class.command[2] = "Q4";
> /* 40 */ Santak1Class.command[3] = "QF";
> /* 45 */ Santak1Class.command[4] = "MD";
> /* 50 */ Santak1Class.command[5] = "QP";
> /* 55 */ Santak1Class.command[6] = "PSmGnLpHqExxxxDxxx";
> /* 60 */ Santak1Class.command[7] = "PF";
> /* 65 */ Santak1Class.command[8] = "T";
> /* 70 */ Santak1Class.command[9] = "TL";
> /* 75 */ Santak1Class.command[10] = "T";
> /* 80 */ Santak1Class.command[11] = "S";
> /* 85 */ Santak1Class.command[12] = "SR";
> /* 90 */ Santak1Class.command[13] = "C";
> /* 95 */ Santak1Class.command[14] = "CT";
> /* 100 */ Santak1Class.command[15] = "CB";
> /* 105 */ Santak1Class.command[16] = "PE";
> /* 110 */ Santak1Class.command[17] = "PD";
> /* 116 */ Santak1Class.command[18] = "QMT";
> /* 122 */ Santak1Class.command[19] = "F";
> /* 128 */ Santak1Class.command[20] = "WH";
> /* 134 */ Santak1Class.command[21] = "Q2";
> /* 140 */ Santak1Class.command[22] = "WA";
> /* 145 */ Santak1Class.command[23] = "WH";
> /* 150 */ Santak1Class.command[24] = "QA";
> /* 156 */ Santak1Class.command[25] = "FLT";
> /* 162 */ Santak1Class.command[26] = "FLT,00";
> /* 170 */ Santak1Class.command[27] = "QS";
> /* 176 */ Santak1Class.command[28] = "CTL";
> /* 182 */ Santak1Class.command[29] = "LT?";
>
> A list of commands but no description. Interestingly, the Q7 which produces
> some output is not mentioned. .
>
> Due to my limited programming skills I was soon stuck, so I decided to look
> at Nut drivers source to find out if there are any that use similar
> commands. After a bit of experimenting I found that 'blazer_ser' pretty much
> does what it's supposed to do. Also most of the 'upsc' output looks
> reasonable:
>
> battery.voltage: 252.00
> battery.voltage.nominal: 240.0
> beeper.status: disabled
> device.type: ups
> driver.name: blazer_ser
> driver.parameter.cablepower: none
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0
> driver.version: 2.6.0
> driver.version.internal: 1.51
> input.current.nominal: 27.0
> input.frequency: 50.0
> input.frequency.nominal: 50
> input.voltage: 236.0
> input.voltage.fault: 140.0
> input.voltage.nominal: 220
> output.voltage: 220.0
> ups.delay.shutdown: 30
> ups.delay.start: 180
> ups.load: 1
> ups.status: OL
> ups.temperature: 31.5
> ups.type: online
>
>
> Danilo
>
>
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