<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK, I build nut-2.0.2 on another Mac (Powermac G5, 10.4.3 up to date, libusb 0.1.10a). Brought it up, no complaints from upsdrvctl, upsd. The output of the upsc:<DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono"># ./upsc br1500@localhost</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">battery.charge: 100</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">battery.charge.low: 10</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">battery.runtime: 5008</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">battery.voltage: 26.0</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">battery.voltage.nominal: 26.0</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">driver.name: newhidups</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">driver.parameter.port: auto</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">driver.version: 2.0.2</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">driver.version.data: APC HID 0.7</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">driver.version.internal: 0.23</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.delay.shutdown: -1</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.firmware: 8.g7 .D</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.firmware.aux: g7 </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.mfr: American Power Conversion</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.model: Back-UPS RS 1500</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.serial: JB0322010041 </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.status: OL</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">ups.test.result: No test initiated</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Andale Mono">#</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The preferences pane does seem to still have control of the UPS - it agrees with the model number, firmware, vendor. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks again</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ted</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 1/7/06, Ted <<A href="mailto:nups@bjmoose.com">nups@bjmoose.com</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thank you sir, I really appreciate your assistance.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">No problem!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One reason though that I like NUT is the expanded UPS data available</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">compared to the built-in that Apple has.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>OS X tends to give you percent of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">battery, and that's in for info.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Nothing more available.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">True.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Maybe we can look at the native OS X HID API. (That was one of the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">goals of libhid, but it turns out we can cover most of the other</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Unix-ish systems all by using libusb.)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And no remote</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">monitoring either.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And no way (as in my case) to have two systems on one</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UPS share shutdowns.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What I was thinking was to have a new NUT driver that is really a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">metadriver - it would talk to OS X's power management drivers,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">allowing you to run NUT on that computer in cases where newhidups</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">won't work, or is messy to install. Then, any other equipment plugged</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">into that UPS could connect to the master.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have another OS X box on a different APC UPS, I'll try that on 2.0.2 - how</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">would I tell it had "stolen" the interface?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>As I recall it did get the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">serial number and model numbers...</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The easiest thing might be to post the complete upsc output.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- Charles Lepple</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>