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APC UPS Modbus support. Can't get it going. #2648
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Yeah, I understand the general frustration all too well, but so far I have not seen systems set up to build NUT (per its With their CLA however, I am not sure anyone other than the original author may propose PRs for upstream changes (e.g. myself on behalf of @EchterAgo), and it seems the OA's interest and availability fizzled put waiting for Stephane to become active again :\ Maybe asking him how to go about it in this case (and actually getting a reply) would be a good start :D That said, "14 years" is an overkill in regard to both NUT and libmodbus. The On a side note, there are reported issues with the driver (maybe the added lib code actually) that cause driver init to crash for some users, but not everyone it seems, so maybe it is a bit too early to upstream the change yet... |
Also, on the NUT side, support is present; it is up to libmodbus to become able to use libusb (done in the fork, bug above notwithstanding). |
@jimklimov I will give it another go and will try to post if any dependencies have changed etc. |
For what it's worth, my plugin has +/- 30 users actively using Feel free to post here any specific building issues you are running into, perhaps I/we can help you tweak things a bit. 😎 |
I'm having problems building it too. I followed the wiki article exactly as written, both libmodbus and nut configure and build successfully, but when I run the driver with |
Did the build logs indicate that USB support was enabled? Do you have |
I have The Build logs: (click me)
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Have tried a few times to get NUT installed with usb modbus support and haven't been successful.
I last tried following this:
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/APC-UPS-with-Modbus-protocol
I always end up frustrated when it endlessly fails with missing dependencies not in any guide and going back to the beginning to the first line and wondering why 14 years later it's still so difficult. This is a bit of a rant and cry for help sorry.
Stephane in the libmodbus original repo is active and still updating, what's holding this back and can we do anything to help push the commit through?
The NUT repo seems to have 2 releases with modbus support but not for usb. Is this planned at all?
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