Topic: USB Support for UPS monitoring

[Luis]

Newer models from APC and other UPS systems come only with a USB interface. Monitoring support is currently supported for serial interfaces only.
USB Support would be nice.
Thanks.
- Luis.

[Jáder Marasca]

Hi,

Just check the new version of APC UPS daemon at:

http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/

I´m sure that support USB UPS! But I haven´t tried it (YET!).

Maybe just upgrade apcupsd from 382 to 385 will solve your problem.And there is 397 and 3.10.x on beta!  Just do a backup to desktop first (AT LEAST!)

[Luis]

Thanks for the link Jader.
I did notice that one of the requirements for USB support required version 2.4.5 or later of the Linux kernel.

[Jáder Marasca]

I´m sorry! I haven´t checked that... but I had installed APCUPSd 3.85 on SME 5.12 ...

[Brian Kirk]

Anyone got this working?
regards
brian

[Damien Curtain]

Brian Kirk wrote:
>
> Anyone got this working?

We have es-500 apc ups' working with 5.6 via the usb interface.

I just built an rpm of the latest release of apcupsd at the time (3.10.3) with usb support and installed it, then set the type/cable to usb and device to hiddev...

UPSCABLE usb
UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE /dev/usb/hiddev[0-9]

etc...
--
 Damien

[Luis]

Hi Damien,
Last time I checked, apcupsd v.3.10.3 was in beta ... have you had any issues with the rpm so far? Is the rpm available anywhere?
Thanks.
Luis.

[Damien Curtain]

Luis wrote:
>
> Hi Damien,
> Last time I checked, apcupsd v.3.10.3 was in beta ... have
> you had any issues with the rpm so far? Is the rpm available
> anywhere?

We've had no (known) problems with this version. The rpm I had was one I made myself, I think there may also be one from the site/or there's a spec file included in the tarball.
--
 Damien

[Jáder Marasca]

Damien Curtain wrote:
 
> I just built an rpm of the latest release of apcupsd at the
> time (3.10.3) with usb support and installed it, then set the
> type/cable to usb and device to hiddev...
>
> UPSCABLE usb
> UPSTYPE usb
> DEVICE /dev/usb/hiddev[0-9]

I finnaly bought one APC BackUPS 600ES.

I have serial (940-0128A) and USB (940-0127C) cables...
installed dmc-apcupsd385 + apcupsd3.10.5

using USB cable... and changed /home/e-smith/apcupsd to accept usb as type/cable...

My configuration do not work (not even start server!)
Any tips Damien?

Thanks!

Jáder