Please help: connect UPS to PC

[Pineapple Smurf]

heeeeeey now @krieg is taking me back to the old days.
i would also set your baud rate lower like 9600 from whatever the standard settings are. Remember, the serial port is slooooooooow, and that is why they invented parallel port later

i can't remember the settings on PC as i have been on MAC since 2009

Serial Communication - SparkFun Learn

 

[DeonH]

I bought a male-female serial cable and now everything works. For some reason either the UPS or my PC did not want to use or be used by die USB-2-Serial cable.

Thanks for all the help and advice.

 

[ponder]

I bought a male-female serial cable and now everything works. For some reason either the UPS or my PC did not want to use or be used by die USB-2-Serial cable.

From past experience those things don't always work for whatever reason. It's a biatch for tech staff that have to interface with kit out in the field seeing as laptops no longer come with serial ports.

 

[daniel.bigred]

I know this is late but hopefully it'll help someone else. I have a Mecer UPS and the supplied software (ViewPower) uses a web-interface that relies on Flash. I've tinkered for a day now trying to get it working properly but it always results in either the JDK engine consuming 100% of my CPU or exceptions thrown in the browser. I've since found this site with ViewPowerMini which seems to be a native windows application and provides a much simpler interface.

 

[Nemus]

I know this is late but hopefully it'll help someone else. I have a Mecer UPS and the supplied software (ViewPower) uses a web-interface that relies on Flash. I've tinkered for a day now trying to get it working properly but it always results in either the JDK engine consuming 100% of my CPU or exceptions thrown in the browser. I've since found this site with ViewPowerMini which seems to be a native windows application and provides a much simpler interface.

Thanks for sharing that.
Quick one, did you simply run a network cable from UPS to router to make it reachable? Or is there a bit more to it?
I havent bothered yet, just connected the USB cable everytime to switch off the beeping, but this will make things a bit easier.

 

[daniel.bigred]

Thanks for sharing that.
Quick one, did you simply run a network cable from UPS to router to make it reachable? Or is there a bit more to it?
I havent bothered yet, just connected the USB cable everytime to switch off the beeping, but this will make things a bit easier.

I used an old USB cable that I had lying around and connected it to my NUC. I've actually since found a better piece of software that allowed me to disable the beep on this reply to a separate thread. So far this Foxylabs software is simpler to use and lightweight to run.

I'm currently sitting here running off the UPS right now with no beeping. I finally feel like I can take on Eskom's load-shedding now without losing my mind! Those 12am/2am power outages were messing with my sleep..