NOTE

       This man page only documents  the  hardware-specific  features  of  the
       energizerups  driver.   For  information  about  the  core  driver, see
       nutupsdrv(8).

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       energizerups supports Energizer  models  such  as  the  ER-HMOF600  and
       ER-OF800.

       At  the time of this writing, the driver was tested only with these two
       models. Other Energizer models that use the same USB  interface  should
       also work, but they have not been tested for compatibility.

PREREQUISITES

       This  driver  is  Linux-specific.  It  is not designed to work on other
       operating systems.

       In order for this driver to work, USB and HID support must  be  present
       on  your  system.  As  a  minimum, this means that the following kernel
       drivers must be loaded:

              hid
              usb-uhci
              usbcore


       In place of usb-uhci, you  may  have  another  host  controller  module
       loaded, as appropriate for your hardware.

       In  version 2.4.21 and possibly other versions of the Linux kernel, the
       hiddev driver refuses to take control of HID devices that are also rec-
       ognized as input peripherals. Unfortunately, this also applies to these
       Energizer UPS models. One solution to this problem is to compile a ker-
       nel  with  the CONFIG_HID_USBINPUT option turned off. An alternative is
       to modify the kernel with a simple patch.  In drivers/usb/hiddev.c,  in
       the function hiddev_connect(), the line

              if (!IS_INPUT_APPLICATION(hid->application[i]))


       must be removed or commented out, and the driver and/or the kernel must
       be recompiled.

       energizerups also requires that device nodes for the UPS HID device  be
       created. If these don't exist on your system, you can create them using
       the following commands:

              mkdir /dev/usb
              mkdir /dev/usb/hid

              mount none /proc/bus/usb -t usbfs
              cat /proc/bus/usb/devices


       In this file, the following line should be seen:

       S:  Product=USB To RS232 Interface (V1.0) BaudRate 2400bps


       This line indicates the presence of the USB-to-serial converter that is
       used by these Energizer UPS models.

EXTRA ARGUMENTS

       This driver does not support any extra settings in the ups.conf(5).

BUGS

       The battery percentage is derived from the voltage data  that  the  UPS
       returns,  since  the  UPS  doesn't return that value directly.  On some
       hardware, the charge will remain at 100% for a long time and then drops
       quickly  shortly before the battery runs out.  You can confirm from the
       battery.voltage readings that this is a problem with the  UPS  and  not
       this driver.

       Voltage/charge  characteristics  are  derived from a manual calibration
       with an ER-HMOF600. Due to hardware differences, the charge  percentage
       reports may be very inaccurate.

       Dead/broken  batteries  can't  be reported reliably.  If your UPS kills
       the load instantly or within seconds of  starting  the  inverter,  your
       batteries probably need to be replaced.

AUTHOR

       Viktor Toth (http://www.vttoth.com/)

SEE ALSO

   The core driver:
       nutupsdrv(8)


   Internet resources:
       The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/



                                Sun Aug 24 2003                ENERGIZERUPS(8)