[Nut-upsuser] Unsupported UPS Orvaldi 520PL?

Arnaud Quette aquette.dev at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 14:06:05 UTC 2011


Hi Milan

2011/8/26 Milan Knížek <knizek.confy at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> I am new to UPS stuff, please be patient with me ;-)
>
> Archlinux i686, kernel 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT.
> nut 2.6.1 installed from source via Arch's AUR repository.
> Mother board GA D525TUD with two serial ports, both enabled in BIOS.
>
> I got some old Orvaldi 520 PL UPS [1], which is supposed to be
> supported by the vendor [2] with sw called UPSmart. The statically
> compiled i386 binary ran but did not detect the UPS.
>
> I also tried openupsmart [2] (obsolete now), but UPS was not detected.
>
> Since NUT compatibility list shows some success with blazer_ser driver
> for some other Orvaldi UPS, I gave it a try on both ttyS0 and ttyS1 -
> but no success (see the log below).
>
> I have also read about the cable variants and their configuration in NUT
> - Orvaldi uses some special serial cable with pins like shown here [4],
> which is not described on NUT doc pages.
>
> If there is any chance it could be supported by NUT, can anybody give
> some idea how to move on?
>
> Regards,
> Milan
>
>
> [1] http://orvaldi.pl/index.php/pl/product_catalog/product_view/1/6
> [2] http://en.orvaldi.com/index.php/en/article_constant/21
> [3] http://openupsmart.sourceforge.net/
> [4] http://www.orvaldi.com.pl/2/file/DB9_pod_UPSmart.zip
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as per link [4], this is a dry contact UPS.
so you need to use genericups

cheers,
Arnaud
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