Serial Cable
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A common serial cable will *not* work. Use the one provided with the UPS.
Otherwise you can build yourself a cable follwing this scheme:
| DTE(computer) | DCE(ups) |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 5 | 4 |
Yes, GND goes to pin 4 instead of 5.
Installation
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As usaual:
tar -zxvf ofysutils-x.x.x.tar.gz
cd ofysutils-x.x.x
./configure
make
make install
ofysctl will be placed in /usr/local/sbin by default. The default serial port is /dev/ttyS0. To change it call "./configure --with-ttyport=TTY", where TTY is the port you want to use as default.
See INSTALL file for details.
Usage
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Type "ofysctl -h" to see available options. They are divided into three categories:
-general options: they don't affect the UPS
-status options: they only fetch informations from the UPS
-control option: thay change the settings and/or the behaviour of the UPS
Verbosity: by default ofysctl prints the name of the informations he is displaying and it's value. If you pass the -q option you'll see only the value; with "-v" it prints also a bit of logging of serial port operations.
WARNING!: By default the shut down delay is 0. If you call "ofysctl -S", the UPS will go stand-by immediately!
Bugs, wishlist, comments...
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If you experience reading timeout see BUGS file.
Please submit everything to:
Ludovico Cavedon <lumaca82@inwind.it>
including, if you can get it, your UPS version number (ofysctl -u).