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    Just to inform that APC model Back-UPS BX 1500BI-BR works perfectly

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      mcury Rebel Alliance
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      Just received a Back-UPS BX 1500BI-BR, set the driver to usbhid and it is working perfectly with NUT 2.8.2_2 (nut-devel-2024.01.03).

      No need to set quirks or anything else.

      ugen0.2: <American Power Conversion Back-UPS BX 1500BI-BR FW:V586 -USB FW:A8> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (24mA)
      

      dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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        mcury Rebel Alliance @mcury
        last edited by mcury

        Just to add that I was able to set the following settings in this APC, by:

        Extra Arguments to driver (optional):

        offdelay=60
        ondelay=180
        waitbeforereconnect=30
        

        Note: waitbeforereconnect=30 is important since the driver sometimes loses connectivity with NUT.

        Additional configuration lines for ups.conf

        maxretry=3
        retrydelay=10
        

        Shell:

        Check the admin password: (You don't need to set an admin user in upsd.users file), the password changes, so you need to check every time you are going to make a change.

        cat /usr/local/etc/nut/upsd.users
        

        Checking defaults:

        upsrw -l ups
        

        Changing values:

        upsrw -s battery.charge.low ups
        Username (root): admin
        Password:
        Enter new value for battery.charge.low: 50
        OK
        
        upsrw -s battery.runtime.low ups
        Username (root): admin
        Password:
        Enter new value for battery.runtime.low: 1500
        OK
        

        If you receive the following error after boot, with or without user=root in ups.conf :
        UPS [ups]: connect failed: Connection failure: Connection refused

        Then, install shellcmd and use the following script as shellcmd:

        #!/bin/sh
                       sleep 60
                       /usr/local/sbin/pfSsh.php playback svc stop nut
                       sleep 20
                       /usr/local/sbin/pfSsh.php playback svc start nut
                       sleep 5
                exit 1
        done
        

        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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