NAME

bicker_ser - Driver for Bicker DC UPS via serial port connections

SYNOPSIS

bicker_ser -h

bicker_ser -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

Note
 This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the bicker_ser driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8).

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

bicker_ser supports all Bicker UPSes shipped with the PSZ-1053 extension module such as UPSIC-1205, UPSIC-2403, DC2412-UPS and DC2412-UPS-LD.

CABLING

The needed cable is a standard pin-to-pin serial cable with pins 2, 3 and 5 (on DB9 connector) connected.

EXTRA ARGUMENTS

This driver supports no extra arguments from ups.conf(5).

INSTANT COMMANDS

shutdown.return

Turn off the load and return when power is back.

KNOWN ISSUES AND BUGS

ups.delay.shutdown is not honored

Although that delay is properly set when sending the shutdown command, it seems some UPS ignore it and use a fixed 2 seconds delay instead.

AUTHOR

Nicola Fontana <ntd@entidi.it>

SEE ALSO

The core driver:

nutupsdrv(8)

Internet resources:

The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: https://www.networkupstools.org/