FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs

[Jonathan Horne]

On Saturday 25 August 2007 12:53:19 Robert Huff wrote:
> Zbigniew Szalbot writes:
> >  I am going to get a UPS device for my home freebsd gateway/router
> >  and wonder if there is anything that you would recommend? At work
> >  I use APC units and there is a dedicated software to manage it
> >  (apcupsd). Not sure if that's the case with other manufacturers?
> >  I'd like to get something that could be managed by software and
> >  at the some time not too expensive... you know home
> >  budget...erm...
>
> 	Assuming the manufacturer does not provide a program - and few
> do - the preferred software for APC (and compatible) units is
> "apcupsd"; for others, it seems to be "nut" (sysutils/nut).
> Check carefully to make sure it works with your UPS.
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
>
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ill put in another vote for an APC with sysutile/apcupsd.  here is some 
example output of the what the software pulls from the unit:

[jhorne at athena ~] $ apcaccess
APC      : 001,037,0912
DATE     : Sat Aug 25 12:57:45 CDT 2007
HOSTNAME : athena.dfwlp.com
RELEASE  : 3.14.1
VERSION  : 3.14.1 (04 May 2007) freebsd
UPSNAME  : Athena APC RS 1500
CABLE    : USB Cable
MODEL    : Back-UPS RS 1500
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Sat Aug 25 07:56:21 CDT 2007
STATUS   : ONLINE
LINEV    : 118.0 Volts
LOADPCT  :  18.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  49.0 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
SENSE    : High
LOTRANS  : 097.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 138.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : Always
BATTV    : 27.1 Volts
LASTXFER : Low line voltage
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT  : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
SELFTEST : NO
STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
MANDATE  : 2006-09-19
SERIALNO : BBlalalalalalalalala
BATTDATE : 2001-09-25
NOMINV   : 120
NOMBATTV :  24.0
FIRMWARE : 8.g9 .D USB FW:g9
APCMODEL : Back-UPS RS 1500
END APC  : Sat Aug 25 12:57:49 CDT 2007

(as you can see, its USB connected too, which is a nice convenience)

cheers,
-- 
Jonathan Horne
http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
freebsd at dfwlp.com