Getting help for apcupsd (re-post)

[Chris Hill]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Manish Jain wrote:

> I have an APC UPS (USB) which works perfectly under Windows XP SP3, 
> but fails to shut down upon power failure via a daemon installed 
> through the port sysutils/apcupsd. Seemingly, the daemon is unable to 
> communicate with the UPS to determine remaining battery level.
>
> I sent a message to the maintainer itetcu at FreeBSD.org over 2 weeks 
> back, but there has been no reply.
>
> What can I do next to get the UPS to function correctly ? Thanks.

Check your cable, for one thing. I seem to recall that APC uses a 
bizarre nonstandard pinout. If you use the cable that came with the UPS, 
you should be OK.

HTH.

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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