[How to] Belkin 600VA UPS (F6S600auUSB) with NUT

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 / VK5ZSH posted in Hardware / 8 Comments

I recently purchased a Belkin 600VA UPS for my 12V fanless Mini ITX system and Wireless AP to keep them running through brown outs. This is what I had to do to get the UPS to work with NUT under Debian.

UPDATE Monday 21 May 09:49:17 CST 2012: now that I have had a long enough power outage I can confirm that the beeps do get faster towards end batter life and about then the computer starts its shutdown process.

Set the correct permissions to access the UPS
Edit and add the following to /lib/udev/rules.d/52-nut-usbups.rules:

#  F6S600auUSB - blazer_usb
ATTR{idVendor}=="0665", ATTR{idProduct}=="5161", MODE="664", GROUP="nut"

Run the following to activate the newly set permissions for the UPS:

# udevadm trigger --action=change

Installing and configuring NUT to work with the newly connected Belkin UPS
Install NUT:

# apt-get install nut

Edit /etc/nut/ups.conf and add the following to the end of file:

[belkin]
driver = blazer_usb
port = auto

Edit /etc/nut/nut.conf and change the mode:

MODE=standalone

Edit /etc/nut/upsd.users and add the following users

[admin]
password = adm_pwd
action = SET
instcmds = ALL

[upsmon]
password = ups_pwd
upsmon master

Edit the /etc/nut/upsmon.conf and check the following is active and correct.

MONITOR belkin@localhost 1 upsmon ups_pwd master
MINSUPPLIES 1
SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"
POLLFREQ 5
POLLFREQALERT 5
HOSTSYNC 15
DEADTIME 15
POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower
NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG FSD SYSLOG+WALL
NOTIFYFLAG COMMOK SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG COMMBAD SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG SHUTDOWN SYSLOG+WALL
NOTIFYFLAG REPLBATT SYSLOG+WALL
NOTIFYFLAG NOCOMM SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG NOPARENT SYSLOG
RBWARNTIME 43200
NOCOMMWARNTIME 300
FINALDELAY 5

Start NUT daemon:

# invoke-rc.d nut start

Check for errors in logs:

# tail -f /var/log/daemons.log
# tail -f /var/log/messages

Check UPS status:

upsc belkin

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Comments (8)

2:12, Wednesday, October 26, 2011Paulo Neves / Reply

Finally!!

My Belkin 800va BU30800me USB is working.

Thank you!
23:14, Tuesday, November 15, 2011Sidney / Reply

I got the UPS attached to a HP N36L running Ubuntu 11.4. Managed to connect to the UPS using your instructions and I can see the app responding to events like online or on battery. However, what don’t work for me is the auto shutdown. running the command UPSC does not show any info on battery level or capacity. Does auto shutdown work for you?
- 0:15, Wednesday, November 16, 2011Dale / Reply
  
  The last time I had a long power outage that depleted the UPS, and when I rebooted the system I did notice anything in the logs to indicate it was shutdown improperly. I should maybe test it and hook a monitor up to my 12 volt Mini ITX system and monitor to see that it does shutdown properly.
0:46, Wednesday, November 16, 2011Sidney / Reply

@Dale
Thanks for the quick reply. One thing I noticed on my UPS (same model as yours) is that the audible beep doesn’t increase its frequency to 1 per sec prior to it losing all power altogether as stated on the user guide. i.e. it seems to be skipping the “low battery” state which might be the cause of my problem.
0:47, Wednesday, November 16, 2011Sidney / Reply

oh, and do you mind posting your upsc output? mine is
battery.voltage: 13.40
battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0
beeper.status: enabled
device.type: ups
driver.name: blazer_usb
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.version: 2.6.1
driver.version.internal: 0.03
input.current.nominal: 2.0
input.frequency: 50.1
input.frequency.nominal: 50
input.voltage: 252.3
input.voltage.fault: 252.3
input.voltage.nominal: 230
output.voltage: 245.6
ups.delay.shutdown: 30
ups.delay.start: 180
ups.load: 0
ups.productid: 5161
ups.status: OL
ups.temperature: 25.0
ups.type: offline / line interactive
ups.vendorid: 0665
- 1:32, Wednesday, November 16, 2011Dale / Reply
```
battery.voltage: 13.60
battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0
beeper.status: enabled
device.type: ups
driver.name: blazer_usb
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.version: 2.6.2
driver.version.internal: 0.03
input.current.nominal: 2.0
input.frequency: 50.1
input.frequency.nominal: 50
input.voltage: 241.4
input.voltage.fault: 241.5
input.voltage.nominal: 230
output.voltage: 235.6
ups.delay.shutdown: 30
ups.delay.start: 180
ups.load: 5
ups.productid: 5161
ups.status: OL
ups.temperature: 25.0
ups.type: offline / line interactive
ups.vendorid: 0665
```
22:15, Saturday, April 28, 2012pablo escobar / Reply

In a blackout, does the UPS shut down the OS properly? Is there a graphical interface to change the UPS settings, like with Windows?
- 0:16, Sunday, July 22, 2012Dale / Reply
  
  Yes it shut the OS down properly, I not have any GUI installed on the machine that the UPS is connected to.