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

mcury

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)

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