Re: [Apcupsd-users] apcaccess not reporting any value but online status

[Adam K. <ad...@kr...>]

On Mar 1, 2014 7:12 AM, "Xavier Bachelot" <xa...@ba...> wrote:
>
> On 03/01/2014 12:20 PM, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:
> > Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> >> On 02/28/2014 10:31 PM, William Smith wrote:
> >>> Who or what is MGE?  We just had a discussion about how apcupsd is
only written for APC UPS devices, so I'd suspect you are lucky it works at
all...
> >>
> >> MGE is an UPS manufacturer. As I found their ID in
> >> src/drivers/usb/usb_common.h as well as multiple references to MGE
> >> elsewhere in the code, I thought it was more or less supported. Also, I
> >> seemed to recall APC and MGE are somewhat linked together, but I'm not
> >> sure so I'll need to check that.
> >
> > In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS
> > Systems to form Schneider Electric's Critical Power & Cooling Services
> > Business Unit.
> >
> >
> > apcupsd-3.14.9 release 3.14.9 brings a number of new features including...
> >
> >      SNMP enhancements inclduing support for MGE and RFC1628 MIBs
> >      Support for USB on 64-bit Windows platforms
> >
> > Please see the Release Notes for details. July 22, 2011.
> >
> >
> Ok, so here's the link between APC and MGE.
> So MGE UPSs are supported, but only with SNMP. That doesn't apply in the
> case of an USB link. I'll read the release note, thanks for the pointer.
> However, why would the MGE id be defined in the usb code ?

Years ago, long before the APC/MGE merger, there was a small attempt in the
USB driver to support MGE products. It never worked and was unmaintained so
it was removed. The VID constant was just overlooked and wasn't removed
until a couple weeks ago.

--Adam