Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday, 29 October 2017 01:56:52 GMT Dale wrote:
> Daniel Frey wrote:
> > Well, that's odd. I just built it and see nothing of the sort. I built
> > it with all USE flags.
> > 
> > I am not using nut now, but I was trying it about a year ago. I did
> > have a client (it wasn't knutclient), maybe it was removed from the
> > tree. That's disappointing.
> > 
> > How much information do your users need? I'm running KDE5 with apcupsd
> > and an APC UPS, and the battery monitor built in to KDE shows me that
> > the battery is at 100% (it doesn't really say much else, though.)
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> I seem to recall that one was treecleaned a good while back, few
> months.  I can't recall the name but think it was something KDE
> related.  I seem to recall --depclean removing it or something here. 
> Can't recall why it was removed from the tree tho.
> 
> That said, I tried Knutclient here and while it works, it doesn't say
> much.  It seems most features don't work with the UPS I have.  It does
> show on the command line with a upsc command.  Maybe I need some
> different settings or something. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

On a small UPS knutclient shows the current load, to avoid stupidly plugging 
in unsuitable devices in the UPS like printers and then blaming the UPS - it 
has happened ... sigh ... ;  it shows input voltage, output voltage and 
runtime on battery.  On a larger UPS it also shows temperature.  When in a 
power cut you're trying to save your work before a shutdown starts, running 
upsc and reading line by line the output can take longer than glancing at the 
GUI.  Life will carry on without it, but it is nevertheless a convenient 
gadget to have for some users.

Perhaps I should enable the cgi flag and see what web interface this offers, 
although I can guess it will require a web browser to run on the PC acting as 
a nut server.  Anyone used this?  

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Regards,
Mick

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