From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 5 16:41:39 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0F9A26809 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:41:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@marmot.org) Received: from email.marmot.org (email.marmot.org [192.245.61.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D061252 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:41:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@marmot.org) Received: from [10.1.1.2] (192.245.61-host110.marmot.org [192.245.61.110]) by email.marmot.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CEA53222007A for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:41:38 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <563B86C2.7020003@marmot.org> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:41:38 -0700 From: Steve Lindemann Organization: Marmot Library Network, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:25.2) Gecko/20150209 FossaMail/25.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS References: <20151105073309.1325707a@seibercom.net> <563B75FF.9020104@marmot.org> <50421.128.135.52.6.1446739091.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <50421.128.135.52.6.1446739091.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:41:39 -0000 On 11/5/2015 8:58 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Thu, November 5, 2015 9:30 am, Steve Lindemann wrote: >> On 11/5/2015 5:33 AM, Jerry wrote: >>> I was given a brand new APC Smart-UPS SC 420VA unit. I was wondering if >>> anyone had actually tried or used one of these units with FreeBSD. >>> According >>> to the documentation, it is "plug & play" with Windows, but I have no >>> idea >>> how to make it play nicely, if at all, with FreeBSD. There is no USB >>> connector, just a serial connector. >> >> Take a look at Network UPS Tools (NUT). I haven't used it myself (yet) >> but I've heard it works... though maybe not with serial. If you give it >> a try and it does work with serial let us know too. > > I must have introduced confusion in my other post, when I described > apcupsd on machine not connected to UPS with serial/USB cable talking over > network to apcupsd connected to the UPS with serial/USB cable. What I said > is only relevant to apcupsd (which I use forever). Network UPS Tools > mentioned here are different tools that have nothing to do with apcupsd, > and what I said about apcupsd is not related to Network UPS Tools, and > neither it needs these tools (all I described is done by the same apcupsd > software). I had not seen your post before I replied to the list... I was just making a suggestion based on what I've heard (as opposed to real experience on my part). I wasn't responding to your points, what you said in your original post sounds right to me too (again, based on what I've read, not experience). -- Steve