Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-01-22 at 22:04 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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What a putz.
Just enough information to...make you wish you had the information you actually need. Worthless :-(
What is NECESSARY is what the UPS send out on the serial line to indicate that line power has been lost.
And then you'll find that many PCs do not have a serial port.
The usb method is the way of things to be, and besides, can give you more info, like current AC voltage, state of the battery, remaining on battery time (so that the driver decides when to power off safely)...
Just a single line to tell you that you are running on batteries is insufficient nowdays.
Agreed, I use the temperature of the ups to monitor the the environment in the server room (^-^) -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org