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

[Xavier B. <xa...@ba...>]

On 03/01/2014 02:22 PM, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2014 7:12 AM, "Xavier Bachelot" <xa...@ba...
> <mailto: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
> 
Thanks Adam, and thanks everyone for all the information.

Regards,
Xavier