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POWERPANEL(8) NUT Manual POWERPANEL(8) NAME powerpanel - Driver for serial PowerPanel Plus compatible UPS equipment SYNOPSIS powerpanel -h powerpanel -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS] Note This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the pow- erpanel driver. For information about the core driver, see nutups- drv(8). SUPPORTED HARDWARE This driver supports CyberPower BC1200, PR2200 and many other similar de- vices, both for the text and binary protocols. The driver will autodetect which protocol is used. If your Cyber Power Systems UPS has a USB port, you may wish to use the us- bhid-ups(8) driver. The snmp-ups(8) driver supports several network cards via SNMP. EXTRA ARGUMENTS This driver supports the following optional settings in ups.conf(5): protocol=[text,binary] Override the default autodetection of the protocol. manufacturer=value If you don't like the autodetected value, you can override this by set- ting it here. model=value Like manufacturer above. serial=value Like manufacturer above. ondelay=value Time to wait before switching on the UPS (1 - 9999 minutes, 0=indefi- nite). Only available with the text protocol driver (see Support Sta- tus). offdelay=value Time to wait before shutting down the UPS (6 - 600 seconds). Values be- low 60 seconds will be truncated to 6 seconds intervals, values above 60 seconds to 60 seconds intervals. Only available with the text proto- col driver (see Support Status). VARIABLES Depending on the type of your UPS unit, some of the following variables may be changed with upsrw(8). If the driver can't read a variable from the UPS, it will not be made available. input.transfer.high writable: high transfer voltage point in V input.transfer.low writable: low transfer voltage point in V battery.charge.low writable: remaining battery charge percentage for low battery warning output.voltage.nominal writable: nominal output voltage in V ups.start.battery writable: allow cold start from battery COMMANDS Depending on the type of your UPS unit, some of the following commands may be available. * test.battery.start.quick, test.battery.stop * beeper.enable, beeper.disable, beeper.toggle * shutdown.return, shutdown.reboot, shutdown.stayoff On many devices, these commands are unreliable, so before using them you must verify that these work as expected (see Shutdown Issues). * shutdown.stop SUPPORT STATUS Vendor support is absent for this driver, so if you need some features that are currently not available, provide ample documentation on what the driver should sent to the UPS in order to make this work. If more information would be available on the binary protocol, it would probably be possible to make ondelay and offdelay configurable. So far, nobody has taken the time to investigate what we should tell the UPS to make this work, and Cyber- Power isn't willing to share this with us. SHUTDOWN ISSUES If the shutdown.return command on your UPS doesn't seem to work, chances are that your UPS is an older model. Try a couple of different settings for offdelay. If no value in the range 6..600 works, your UPS likely doesn't support this. In order to get the expected behaviour, it requires shut- down.stayoff (when on battery) and shutdown.reboot (when on mains). The driver will automatically fallback to these commands if shutdown.return fails, and tries to detect which one should be used when called with the -k option (or through upsdrvctl shutdown). This isn't bullet-proof, however, and you should be prepared that the power will either not be shutdown or that it doesn't return when the power comes back. All models supported by the binary protocol and many supported through the text protocol are affected by this. KNOWN PROBLEMS The CyberPower OP series don't offer direct voltage, charge, frequency and temperature readings. Instead, they will return a binary value that needs conversion to the actual value. The exact conversion needed is unknown at the time of this writing, hence an estimation was made based om readings from actual devices. This may (probably will) be off, possibly a lot. Unless you can tell us the exact mapping between values from the UPS and actual readings, don't bother to complain. We've done the best we can based on the limited information available. Remember, a UPS isn't a measuring instrument. AUTHORS Arjen de Korte <arjen@de-korte.org>, Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net> SEE ALSO The core driver: nutupsdrv(8) Other drivers: usbhid-ups(8), snmp-ups(8) Internet resources: The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: https://www.networkupstools.org/ Network UPS Tools 2.8.5. 08/04/2026 POWERPANEL(8)
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