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Default Uninterruptible power supplies

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:59:30 -0700, tabbypurr wrote:

On Monday, 26 August 2019 13:25:36 UTC+1, Roger Hayter wrote:

I think anything that can run apcupsd can be networked easily to the
box controlling the UPS. Remakably painless. It's only worth using
NUT (which can allegedly follow an apcupsd server) if there's something
like a NAS you can't install apcupsd on. NUT is less painless.


sounds like a pain in the ....


I'm controlling three UPS units here with nut. I have done for years. It
just works.

Setting it up is a bit involved but not hard. There's a good README. And
once done, it's done.



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