I have installed two UPSs, "Powercool", which come with a USB cable and
an application to set parameters and power-fail actions and to monitor performance. However, the application reports "Communication Failure".
lsusb shows the connection as 0001:0000 Fry's Electronics MEC0003.
Changing permissions to the corresponding Bus/Device has no effect.
Googling for Fry's Electronics MEC0003 shows many posts but all seem to
rely on installing NUT and nut-monitor, which I don't want, because I
want to use the supplied application. I suspect udev may be involved in correcting the problem, but I don't know enough to go further.
Can anyone help please?
I have installed two UPSs, "Powercool", which come with a USB cable and
an application to set parameters and power-fail actions and to monitor performance. However, the application reports "Communication Failure".
lsusb shows the connection as 0001:0000 Fry's Electronics MEC0003.
Changing permissions to the corresponding Bus/Device has no effect.
Googling for Fry's Electronics MEC0003 shows many posts but all seem to
rely on installing NUT and nut-monitor, which I don't want, because I
want to use the supplied application. I suspect udev may be involved in correcting the problem, but I don't know enough to go further.
Can anyone help please?
On Thu, 13 May 2021 16:19:46 +0100, Grimble wrote:
I have installed two UPSs, "Powercool", which come with a USB cable and
an application to set parameters and power-fail actions and to monitor
performance. However, the application reports "Communication Failure".
lsusb shows the connection as 0001:0000 Fry's Electronics MEC0003.
Changing permissions to the corresponding Bus/Device has no effect.
Googling for Fry's Electronics MEC0003 shows many posts but all seem to
rely on installing NUT and nut-monitor, which I don't want, because I
want to use the supplied application. I suspect udev may be involved in
correcting the problem, but I don't know enough to go further.
Can anyone help please?
Not me but you mention changing permissions which reminded me
that I added my login to the usb group. If you do so on your
system you will need to log out/in to pick up the new group.
You might also want to "cat /etc/group" to see if there is
a new group added by your ups software. If so you might
also add your login id to that group and log out/in.
On 13/05/2021 18:32, Bit Twister wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2021 16:19:46 +0100, Grimble wrote:Bit: thanks for the tip. Did that
I have installed two UPSs, "Powercool", which come with a USB cable and
an application to set parameters and power-fail actions and to monitor
performance. However, the application reports "Communication Failure".
lsusb shows the connection as 0001:0000 Fry's Electronics MEC0003.
Changing permissions to the corresponding Bus/Device has no effect.
Googling for Fry's Electronics MEC0003 shows many posts but all seem to
rely on installing NUT and nut-monitor, which I don't want, because I
want to use the supplied application. I suspect udev may be involved in
correcting the problem, but I don't know enough to go further.
Can anyone help please?
Not me but you mention changing permissions which reminded me
that I added my login to the usb group. If you do so on your
system you will need to log out/in to pick up the new group.
You might also want to "cat /etc/group" to see if there is
a new group added by your ups software. If so you might
also add your login id to that group and log out/in.
Nothing found
On Thu, 13 May 2021 11:19:46 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
I have installed two UPSs, "Powercool", which come with a USB cable and
an application to set parameters and power-fail actions and to monitor
performance. However, the application reports "Communication Failure".
lsusb shows the connection as 0001:0000 Fry's Electronics MEC0003.
Changing permissions to the corresponding Bus/Device has no effect.
Googling for Fry's Electronics MEC0003 shows many posts but all seem to
rely on installing NUT and nut-monitor, which I don't want, because I
want to use the supplied application. I suspect udev may be involved in
correcting the problem, but I don't know enough to go further.
Can anyone help please?
I have a usb connected ups. I do use nut to monitor it. A couple of things from it's settings may help though ...
driver = "usbhid-ups"
port = /dev/auto
It's installation script creates the user/group ups.
The program that actually accesses the ups (usbhid-ups) runs as the user
ups
which is a member of the groups dialout, tty, and usb.
Don't forget to logout/in for any group changes to take effect.
The nut-server package includes the file /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-nut-usbups.rules
which sets MODE="664", GROUP="ups" for the actual usb device.
Connecting the usb cable adds a line to the journal with ...
kernel: hid-generic 0003:051D:0002.0007: hiddev1,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS XS 1300G FW:864.L6 .D USB
FW:L6 ] on usb-0000:00:12.0-5/input0
lsusb shows ...
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion
Uninterruptible Power Supply
I do recommend using nut. The values returned from the ups are
standardized,
so using the software that comes with it rather then a Mageia package
likely
doesn't add anything.
Hope some of this helps.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
I got the application to load but it bombed with some display problems,
so I'll take your advice and set up nut.
On Sun, 16 May 2021 10:55:12 -0400, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:Thanks Dave, that was very useful. In fact I used nut-scanner and
I got the application to load but it bombed with some display problems,
so I'll take your advice and set up nut.
I have nut and nut-server installed on the system the ups is connected to. I've chosen to use the device name nutdev1 for my ups, and in the following replaced the actual password with the word munged.
In /etc/ups/ups.conf I've added the lines ...
[nutdev1]
driver = "usbhid-ups"
port = /dev/auto
In /etc/ups/upsd.conf I've added the line
LISTEN 127.0.0.1 3493
In /etc/ups/upsd.users I've added the lines ...
[admin]
password = munged
actions = SET
instcmds = ALL
[upsmon]
password = munged
upsmon master
In /etc/ups/upsmon.conf I have the line ...
MONITOR nutdev1@localhost 1 upsmon munged master
with the rest of the uncommented lines being the from the rpm package.
< snip>
On 16/05/2021 18:04, David W. Hodgins wrote:Forget that - hadn't started nut-server. Lots of output now, but lots of
On Sun, 16 May 2021 10:55:12 -0400, GrimbleThanks Dave, that was very useful. In fact I used nut-scanner and
<grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
I got the application to load but it bombed with some display problems,
so I'll take your advice and set up nut.
I have nut and nut-server installed on the system the ups is connected
to.
I've chosen to use the device name nutdev1 for my ups, and in the
following
replaced the actual password with the word munged.
In /etc/ups/ups.conf I've added the lines ...
[nutdev1]
driver = "usbhid-ups"
port = /dev/auto
In /etc/ups/upsd.conf I've added the line
LISTEN 127.0.0.1 3493
In /etc/ups/upsd.users I've added the lines ...
[admin]
password = munged
actions = SET
instcmds = ALL
[upsmon]
password = munged
upsmon master
In /etc/ups/upsmon.conf I have the line ...
MONITOR nutdev1@localhost 1 upsmon munged master
with the rest of the uncommented lines being the from the rpm package.
< snip>
modified ups.conf with its output.
upsdrvctl indicated it could communicate with the UPS:
"Supported UPS detected with megatec protocol
Vendor information read in 1 tries"
but upsc gave
"Error: Connection failure: Connection refused"
I guess I'll have to trace the various permissions to see what's wrong.
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