James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> writes:
I made a comment on luv-main recently that I was quite impressed by the APC UPS's I'd used in the past, but then someone said the newer ones had changed protocols and were no longer compatible with any known Linux driver. I don't know if the situation has changed since then.
It's on the front page of acpcupsd's website (http://apcupsd.com/). | Do Not Purchase The Following UPSes | | Recently APC has begun shipping UPSes that utilize a new communication | protocol called "Microlink". To date, APC has refused to release | details of this protocol to the apcupsd team so that we can add | support for it to apcupsd. CONSEQUENTLY, THE APCUPSD TEAM RECOMMENDS | YOU *DO NOT* PURCHASE THE FOLLOWING APC UPS MODELS (this list may be | incomplete; please send any additions to the apcupsd-users mailing | list): | | • SmartUPS SMX/SMT 750, 1000, 1500 | • SmartUPS RT 3000XL, 5000XL Incidentally, I heard the main nut dev works for Eaton.