[how to] Getting an RCT UPS to work with NUT in linux

[ThatGuy_ZA]

Seeing that dark times seem to be upon us, I thought I'd share the config to make some RCT UPS's work with NUT as I struggled to find a working driver. I'm running the RCT 650va UPS but I got it to work with the 2000va version too.

I installed NUT via the Openmediavault plugin but the installation is pretty straight forward on most other devices.

This is the config I used.

[ups]
driver=nutdrv_qx
port=auto
subdriver=cypress
vendorid=0665
productid=5161
pollinterval=10
desc = "My UPS"

 

[Usermane]

Seeing that dark times seem to be upon us, I thought I'd share the config to make some RCT UPS's work with NUT as I struggled to find a working driver. I'm running the RCT 650va UPS but I got it to work with the 2000va version too.

I installed NUT via the Openmediavault plugin but the installation is pretty straight forward on most other devices.

This is the config I used.

[ups]
driver=nutdrv_qx
port=auto
subdriver=cypress
vendorid=0665
productid=5161
pollinterval=10
desc = "My UPS"

This really helped me thanks a lot. I then used this for reference for the rest of the setup Raspberry Pi Home Server v2: Network UPS Tools

 

[vexersa]

Thanks for both of your messages @Usermane & @ThatGuy_ZA, they helped really well and I configured my 2000VA unit successfully.

 

[mikewazar]

@ThatGuy_ZA
@Usermane

Just used both of your contributions to setup my NUT configuration. Thanks

 

[maxvdm]

@ThatGuy_ZA thank you so much this has helped alot.

 

[Gyromaniak]

This worked for me as well, thank you!