<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="Riccardo Facchetti"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i586) [Netscape]"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000EF" vlink="#51188E" alink="#FF0000"> <h2> Smart UPSes</h2> <h3> <a NAME="BackUPS Pro"></a>BackUPS Pro</h3> <p><br>/***************************************************************************/ <br>/* README.BackUPS-Pro Users of apcupsd */ <br>/* BY: "Christopher J. Reimer" <reimer@doe.carleton.ca> */ <br>/* "Andre M. Hedrick" <hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu> */ <br>/***************************************************************************/ <p>BackUPS Pro series users: <p>/***************************************************************************/ <br>/* #940-0095A cable is smart mode only ??? */ <br>/***************************************************************************/ <p>Tues, July 8 1997 <br>From : hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu <p>N-th hack at cable #940-0095A. <br>I theory and test on a bread board, I got the !@#$%& thing to work, <br>but noluck with a plain jane BackUPS. Will try to get it to work with <br>a SmartUPS. Anyone want to try the dumb mode code? <p>/***************************************************************************/ <br>/* #940-0020B cable is dumb mode only. */ <br>/***************************************************************************/ <p>Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:34:49 -0600 <br>From: Eric Jones <ejones@rap.ucar.edu> <br>To: hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu <br>Subject: apcupsd <p>Hi, <p>I just wanted to report an (almost) success story. I'm running your <br>apcupsd using an APC BackUPS Pro. I used the 940-0020B cables. <p>I'm trying to run it under Debian Linux which uses Sys V style init. Do <br>you have any info on how to do this correctly? If I figure it out I'll <br>forward the info on to you. The daemon works perfectly though. It <br>detects loss of power and shuts down only when the battery is low. <p>Thanks, <p>Eric Jones <p>ejones@ucar.edu <br> <br> <p>/***************************************************************************/ <br>/* #940-0024(B/C) cable is smart mode only. */ <br>/***************************************************************************/ <p>Note: <br>I called APC and they claim that the command language for SmartUPSs and <br>BackUPS Pro models are different. I don't know the results if you try <br>to run this daemon with a BackUPS Pro. I assume that there is no harm <br>since is an ASCII command set. <p>i.e <p>You send a character and then poll for the response. <p>From: Karsten Wiborg <4wiborg@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> <p>A -> invokes the testing of the LEDs <br>G -> gives T when power failure and S if not <br>Q -> returns 08 if the Online-LED is on and 10 if the on-battery LED <br>is on. It also returns 50 if the battery power is almost <br>used up and the UPS starts beeping without pause. <br>R -> ends the communication between UPS and computer. The UPS <br>tells the computer BYE <br>S -> returns NA <br>U -> does a power failure test <br>W -> switches the UPS on battery but returns online after a short time <br>X -> returns online after a W-command <br>Y -> does something I don't know what probably Attention like you <br>described <br>a -> returns a bunch of wild characters I have no idea of <br>b -> returns the firmware revision (in my case 21.L.I) <br>n -> returns the serial number <br>y -> returns (c) APCC <br>8 -> returns 00 <br>9 -> returns FF <br>- -> returns NO <br>+ -> returns NO <br>' -> returns 00 <br>@222 -> returns OK <p>The UPS itself sends a ! when the power fails and a $ if the power <br>returns. The UPS does NOT send a % if the battery is low. It also <br>does NOT seem to send a + if the battery is recharged enough. <br>It does send continuously ! in maybe 30second-intervals as long as <br>the power is gone. <br>So in order to safely shutdown LinuX, one has to immediately send <br>the Q-command to the UPS as soon as the UPS itself sends the ! to <br>the computer. As long as the UPS returns 10 the battery is okay but <br>as soon as the UPS returns 50, we are in trouble and LinuX has to <br>be shutdown ASAP !!! So we have to send the Q-command continuously <br>to poll for the UPS-information. <p>From: "Christopher J. Reimer" <reimer@doe.carleton.ca> <p>Also, could you put an option into apcupsd that uses <br>the @ option, which I explain below, similar to the kill_power option. <p>f Does not work <br>N " <br>M " <br>Q same as smart ups. some of your missing bits will be telling <br>you smart trim and smart boost info, but I have not seen this <br>happen as of yet. <br>P does not work <br>F " <br>L " <br>O " <br>C " <br>B " <br>Y same as smart ups, sort of , bring the ups into smartmode <br>R put the ups into dumb mode <br>W same as smart ups <br>X same as smartups, but some funny responses <br>power on sleep mode ups off <br>NO NG (does not turn on) OK (does not turn on) <br>U same as smart ups, responds with OK, if not in sleep mode or off, <br>then it replies NA <br>A same as smart ups responds OK <br>^a ups type <br>a some weird string <br>Z ~1.5 sec Z does not work <br>D does not work <br>V " <br>c " <br>k " <br>l " <br>m " <br>n serial # <br>o does not work <br>p " <br>r " <br>s " <br>u " <br>x " <br>y same as smart ups <br>7 does not work <br>8 always reports 00 <br>9 always reports FF (the windows 95 monitoring software is always sending <br>this to the ups ???) <br>- always says no <br>S soft shutdown, ups goes back online when power comes on line, <br>at least it does with a good battery <br>@xxy go into sleep mode after delay, and come on again in xx hours and <br>y * 6 minutes <br>G same as smartups, but also it returns L if there was a power outage <br>during sleep mode <br>K ~1.5ms K same as smart-ups <br> <p>Also, the ups puts out certain characters due to various <br>conditions <p>? right after power-up <br>! power-fail on battery <br>$ back on line <br>% or - indicates discharged battery <br>+ indicates batteries recharged <br> <p>/***************************************************************************/ <br> <h3> <a NAME="BackUPS Pro (new version)"></a>BackUPS Pro (new version)</h3> <p><br>/***************************************************************************/ <br>/* README.NewerBackUPS-Pro Users of apcupsd */ <br>/* "Andre M. Hedrick" <hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu> */ <br>/***************************************************************************/ <p>Newer BackUPS Pro series users: <p>This a newer version is my best guess......it has almost all of the <br>features of the Smart UPS series less the "temp" and "dip switches" <br>I believe that the difference is the serial number series. <p>Mine (donated by A.S.A. Computers) has this serial number: 'FB9742936193' <p>The way to test is to try both modes. <p>UPSTYPE newbackupspro :: returns for cat /etc/apcupsd.status <p>APC : Jan 27 16:18:25 <br>CABLE : APC Cable 940-0095A <br>UPSMODEL : Smarter BackUPS Pro <br>UPSMODE : Stand Alone <br>ULINE : 123.8 Volts <br>MLINE : 124.5 Volts <br>NLINE : 123.8 Volts <br>FLINE : 60.0 Hz <br>VOUTP : 123.8 Volts <br>LOUTP : 016.2 <br>BOUTP : 13.8 Volts <br>BCHAR : 100.0 <br>BFAIL : 0x08 <br>UPSTYPE backupspro :: returns for cat /etc/apcupsd.status <br>APC : Jan 27 16:20:51 <br>CABLE : APC Cable 940-0095A <br>UPSMODEL : BackUPS Pro <br>UPSMODE : Stand Alone <br>LINEFAIL : OK <br>BATTSTAT : OK <br>LINEVOLT : OK <br>LASTEVNT : POWER FAILURE <p>Yes, all I did was change the "UPSTYPE" for this example. <br>If you do not have a "newbackupspro", the top example will return <br>garbage....... <p>/***************************************************************************/ <br> <h3> <a NAME="SmartUPS v/s"></a>SmartUPS v/s</h3> <p><br>/***************************************************************************/ <br>/* README.SmartUPS-VS Users of apcupsd */ <br>/* "Andre M. Hedrick" <hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu> */ <br>/***************************************************************************/ <p>SmartUPS v/s series users: <br>See BackUPS Pro <p>/***************************************************************************/ <br> </body> </html>
