Subject: Re: APC UPS and USB
To: Ed Gould <ed@left.wing.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/29/2001 22:06:52
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:09:30PM -0500, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> Ed Gould <ed@left.wing.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there any software existing to support the newer APC UPSs that
> > connect via USB?  When connected (to a 1.5 system), it is recognized,
> > but I haven't found any mention of software to read the state over USB
> > and act on it.
> > 
> >     uhid0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
> >     uhid0: American Power Conversion Back-UPS 500 FW: 6.2.D USB FW: c1
> > , rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/0
> > 
> > Have I missed something?  If there is some software, a pointer to it
> > would be most appreciated.
> 
> Well, it's a uhid device, so you can use usbhidctl(1) and
> usbhidaction(1) to control and montior it. If you run "usbhidctl -f 0 -r"
> you'll get a summary of what HID interfaces it's exporting.

And please report result to the list, I'm interested :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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