NAME
upscode2 - Driver for UPScode II compatible UPS equipment
NOTE
This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the
upscode2 driver. For information about the core driver, see
nutupsdrv(8).
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
This driver supports UPS equipment which can be controlled via the
UPScode II protocol. This is mainly Fiskars, Powerware equipment, but
also some (probably OEM'ed) products from Compaq.
EXTRA ARGUMENTS
This driver supports the following optional settings in the
ups.conf(5):
manufacturer=value
Autodetection of this parameter is not possible yet (and it
probably never will be). Therefore this user defined string
accepts any name. The default is unknown.
input_timeout=value
The timeout waiting for a response from the UPS. Some UPS models
have shown to be rather slow, resulting in frequent messages
about empty responses from the UPS. If you see this, try
increasing this value.
output_pace=value
Delay between characters sent to the UPS. This was added for
completeness with the above parameter. It has not shown to be
needed yet.
baudrate=value
The default baudrate is 1200, which is the standard for the
UPScode II protocol.
full_update_timer=value
Number of seconds between collection of normative values.
use_crlf
Flag to set if commands towards to UPS need to be terminated
with CR-LF, and not just CR.
use_pre_lf
Flag to set if commands towards to UPS need to be introduced
with an LF. A Compaq T1500h is known to need this.
UPSCMD
The driver supports the following commands for those UPSen that support
them. The available commands are autodetected during initialization,
so you should check availability with upscmd -l.
test.panel.start - Start UPS self test
test.battery.start - Start battery self test
beeper.enable - Enable UPS beeper
beeper.disable - Disable UPS beeper
shutdown.return - Shut down in 1 second and wait for power to return
shutdown.stayoff - Shut down in 1 seconds
shutdown.reboot - Shut down in 1 seconds and reboot after 1 minute
shutdown.reboot.graceful - Shut down in 20 seconds and reboot after 1
minute
NOTES
The Powerware UPS models that this driver has been tested against until
now has not returned a value for battery.charge. Therefore the driver
will guesstimate a value based on the nominal battery min/max and the
current battery voltage.
AUTHOR
Havard Lygre <hklygre@online.no>, Niels Baggesen <niels@baggesen.net>
SEE ALSO
The core driver:
nutupsdrv(8)
Internet resources:
The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/
Tue Oct 19 2004