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<p>Dear all,</p>
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<div>Ivo, we really need your implication to solve *your* issue!</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">I have an old ESV8 UPS down here, and I did code patching years ago to<br /> support old model on nut.</blockquote>
is your ESV8 still working?</blockquote>
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For sure :)<br /> This UPS is strong! By now, it is 18 years old :O</blockquote>
<div><br />made to last until the end of time ;)<br />ah, good ol' MGE time.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">But, I got some bad effect, like Debian bug you mentionned on your email.<br /><br /> Would be difficult for me to gain access to an ESV8+, but we can work<br /> together to test.</blockquote>
even to me. all this goes back to MGE time, now defunct for 5 years.<br /> the only things that survived is the Comet and E Series DX (see below)</blockquote>
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I may have access to an old ESV8+. I gave one to a friend of mine, years ago.</blockquote>
<div><br />that would be nice</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">I can make some test, but I need more information. Could you send me your<br /> debug log?</blockquote>
I think I've found a Comet and a E Series DX (so speaking UTalk) at Eaton today.<br /> this is the kind of things that becomes rare nowadays!<br /><br /> on the patch side, I'd also like to:<br /> - add some more inter-char delay, since mge_command() only has 100 ms.<br /> I've just checked again Utalk spec [1], and we should be at least 500<br /> ms between commands.<br /> the point here is that this inter-char delay is not satisfied with<br /> commands that do not receive an answer (such as Z)</blockquote>
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Interesting. If we are hearing too fast, it's not that good.</blockquote>
<div><br />we're *talking* too fast actually ;)</div>
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<div>You're right ! ... I talked to fast ;)<br /> </div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">For specific commands (such as Z), we may just wait and ignore any answers (as we did by the past).</blockquote>
<div><br />not sure to get your point!? we still ignore the result of mge_command(... Z)</div>
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<div>Fore sure :D</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">- see the result of Marek's mention, i.e moving the double Z before the Si test.</blockquote>
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For sure. I dig on my archives, and found a serial spy log taken on Windows between PSP and ESV8.<br /> Z is send twice, then AX 1, then SI 1.</blockquote>
<div><br />yep, with 500 ms inter-commands... I still have access to that code ;)</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">By the way, I worked a lot to make support of programmable outlets. By now, it is not supported (even for recent UPS, working on usb-hid). I may test and patch.<br /><br /> @Ivo: could you send me your log file?<span class="HOEnZb"><span style="color: #888888;"><br /></span></span></blockquote>
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<br />@Martin: how do you want to proceed on the UTalk issue?<br />I can either provide a (set of) patch(es), or few directions...<br clear="all" /><br /></blockquote>
<p>Let's wait Ivo's answer and log files. Then, I'll try to fix it. Then we test it, and validate on severals UPS. If OK, I'let you publish patch Arnaud.</p>
<p>If I have some time, I can work on programmable outlet, with limited support to onboard one (no external outlet plugged in daisy chain).</p>
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<p>Martin</p>
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