F6C800-UNV Belkin UPS?

[Bob Goodwin]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 11 August 2007, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Tim wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Bus 004 Device 015: ID 050d:0980 Belkin Components [F6C800-UNV Belkin
>>>> UPS]
>>>>         
>>>   ^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Of course it'd be nice if your UPS monitoring software just found it by
>>> itself, or presented you with a list of candidates.
>>>       
>> It does not seem to do so, it being "nut," although I may have missed
>> something?
>>
>> I initially tried the Belkin provided Linux software which looks as
>> though it might be ok, it produces some pretty screens but it wont
>> accept the password I was asked to enter and verify.  As a result I
>> can't begin to configure it.
>>
>> I will continue the effort later, just had my morning coffee ...
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bob Goodwin
>>     
>
> And when you do get it configured, it will turn into a cpu hog, virtually 
> killing the system if either gkrellm or its own gui ever query it.
>
> I've tried to email them about it, but their replies always very carefully 
> talk about other things.  After 4 passes at making them understand that a 
> module compiled on a red hat 5.1 system was not about to work on a modern 
> system and being totally ignored, I asked the 5th time if I was trying to 
> teach pigs to sing, and switched to apcupsd.  I can at least query the status 
> like this:
>
> [root at coyote Dailys]# service apcupsd status
> apcupsd (pid 4806) is running...
> APC      : 001,024,0603
> DATE     : Sat Aug 11 04:58:07 EDT 2007
> HOSTNAME : coyote.coyote.den
> RELEASE  : 3.12.4
> VERSION  : 3.12.4 (19 August 2006) redhat
> UPSNAME  : coyote.coyote.den
> CABLE    : USB Cable
> MODEL    : Belkin UPS
> UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
> STARTTIME: Fri Aug 10 16:26:49 EDT 2007
> STATUS   : ONLINE
> BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
> TIMELEFT :   2.0 Minutes
> MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
> MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
> MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
> NUMXFERS : 0
> TONBATT  : 0 seconds
> CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
> XOFFBATT : N/A
> STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
> SERIALNO :
> NOMBATTV : 120.0
> APCMODEL : Belkin UPS
> END APC  : Sat Aug 11 04:58:46 EDT 2007
>
> I haven't had any power failures since, so I've NDI how it will react in that 
> case.  The original belkin sw would in fact issue a -wall broadcast and shut 
> things down gracefully, when it worked...
>
> As far as configuration, apcupsd finds /dev/hiddev0 all by itself.  If you 
> have more than /dev/hiddevX, then it might need some guidance.
>
>   

Gene:

That's one piece to my puzzle!

ll /dev/hid*
crw------- 1 root root 180, 96 2007-08-11 03:46 /dev/hiddev0

So the device would appear to be  /dev/hiddev0.

I'll try that in the "nut" config file.  And I will look for apcupsd.

I am in a rural area among cotton and soy bean fields and rely on 
several UPS's.

Just yesterday afternoon the power was dropping momentarily with 
lightning but this computer, using a different UPS, kept plugging along 
oblivious to it.

I seem to collect old supplies, all except one so far have responded to 
the replacement of batteries, this last one required two 12 volt, 7.5 
a/h series connected gel-cells which seem to be common to most I've 
acquired and can be had for about $7 each plus shipping.

Thanks.

Bob Goodwin