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The Network UPS Tools repository. UPS management protocol Informational RFC 9271 published by IETF at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9271 Please star NUT on GitHub, this helps with sponsorships!
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APC bx1600mi not seen in Home Assistant on Windows #1838

Open eddysteurs opened 1 year ago

eddysteurs commented 1 year ago

I have installed a apc bx1600mi battery but NUT addon (HA 2023.1.7 in a windows VM, running on Windows 11) does noet seem to support the apc driver On windows device management this info is visible

Device HID\VID_051D&PID_0002\7&c1a6b9d&0&0000 was configured.

Driver Name: hidbatt.inf Class Guid: {72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a} Driver Date: 06/21/2006 Driver Version: 10.0.22621.1 Driver Provider: Microsoft Driver Section: HidBatt_Inst Driver Rank: 0xFF0003 Matching Device Id: HID_DEVICE_UP:0084_U:0004 Outranked Drivers: input.inf:HID_DEVICE:00FF1004 Device Updated: false Parent Device: USB\VID_051D&PID_0002\9B2204A18062

jimklimov commented 1 year ago

Hi, what is the status of NUT support in HA for Windows (ask HA) please? Do they only ship a client for a remote NUT server? Do they ship an old but complete NUT-2.6.5 (over dozen years old) based MSI? Do they ship a recently (since summer 2022, after NUT 2.8.0) revived support of building NUT for Windows that did not tackle packaging yet and so delivery of libusb via packaging and with privileges? Just asking in case we can borrow some solutions :D

Notably, it should talk to device directly, so either coexist with or override the hidbatt which presents an UPS to the system same way as a laptop battery for example.