<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class="">NUT takes charge of sending the required commands through the driver; the </span><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class="">default values are load.off.delay 20 and load.on.delay 30. These values can be </span><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class="">changed by adding lines such as</span><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""> offdelay = 30</span><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""> ondelay = 100</span><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class="">to the corresponding UPS section in file ups.conf.</span><br style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 13px;" class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">This sounded like a very appealing and sensible suggestion, thanks, so I just tried it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I edited /etc/nut/ups.conf to contain the following stanza</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: fixedX6x13; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[cyber]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: fixedX6x13; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>driver = usbhid-ups</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: fixedX6x13; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>port = auto</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: fixedX6x13; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>desc = "Cyber Power Systems VALUE800EILCD"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: fixedX6x13; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>offdelay = 30<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: fixedX6x13; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ondelay = 100</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and then I "tested the shutdown sequence" with</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: fixedX6x13; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sudo upsmon -c fsd</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">The computer duly shut down but then didn't come back up for 3 minutes, at which point I power-cycled it by removing and re-inserting the cable. (By the way, 5 seconds of off time wasn't enough to wake it up, but 30 was.)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">So what else could be wrong? </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">- Should I have written load.off.delay instead of offdelay?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">- Should I have issued any other command to cause the driver to read its ups.conf file?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">- Could it be that the second issue I reported in my original message to the list is also affecting what happens?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2018-February/011034.html" class="">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2018-February/011034.html</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am still getting quite a few console broadcasts that "<span style="font-family: fixedX6x13; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);" class="">UPS cyber@localhost is unavailable</span>" and (a) I don't know why (b) I wonder if this is preventing nut from telling the UPS those new values for the on-delay and off-delay.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>