Hi!
I installed win 11 when it came out, but in the last few days i noticed that there is a small battery icon by the clock, like on a laptop. I have a desktop pc, hooked up to an UPS and connected to it via USB (Cyberpower CP1300EPFCLCD). It always displayed that im connected to the grid and battery is always full, so i thought that its just a bug, but today we had a short blackout, the UPS kicked in and the small icon in win11 switched from "connected to the grid" to "battery power: 100% remaining". It stayed on 100% the whole time, even after 10 minutes, so i dont think it works properly, but it definetly detected correctly the change in power supply.
I didnt find anything on it on official sites and never had anything similiar on win10. Can somebody confirm that it will be a new feature when its bug free? Or just the Cyberpower software messed up the win11 energy management?
Hi. Yes, this is something that is supported natively in Windows (and has been for a very long time).
I also couldn't find any official Microsoft documentation on it, but this has some details - https://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA164514/
The driver is hidbatt.sys.
Now it's also possible that Cyberpower installed their own software/driver that integrates with Windows - looking in device manager (mentioned in the link above) to see the name of the driver being used would let you know which it is.
Mark
(works @ Microsoft, knows some driver things)
Yes the Cyberpower software does that. It can also be set to automatically shut your PC down after a certain percentage remaining. I would test it by running down the battery further and seeing what happens, you may need to contact Cyberpower support.
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Hi, my first post here sorry if the information is lacking.
So I bought this apc ups (APC Easy UPS On-Line - SRV1KRIRK-E) and connect it to my OPNsense since it has the apcupsd plugin. But no matter how I set it up I can't make it to work.
I connect it using the provided USB cable, USB type B from the UPS and type A to the OPNsense. I've been pulling my hair for the past 2 hours. I've also tried NUT on TrueNAS but it's also the same.
When I run apcaccess status, it shows the following:
APC : 001,018,0466 DATE : 2024-12-24 12:37:49 +0700 HOSTNAME : OPNsense.local.mydomain.com VERSION : 3.14.14 (31 May 2016) freebsd UPSNAME : UPS-01 CABLE : USB Cable DRIVER : USB UPS Driver UPSMODE : Stand Alone STARTTIME: 2024-12-24 12:37:44 +0700 STATUS : COMMLOST MBATTCHG : -1 Percent MINTIMEL : -1 Minutes MAXTIME : 0 Seconds NUMXFERS : 0 TONBATT : 0 Seconds CUMONBATT: 0 Seconds XOFFBATT : N/A STATFLAG : 0x05000100 END APC : 2024-12-24 12:58:52 +0700
In addition, this is the output from usbconfig:ugen0.2: <XR21V1410 USB-UART IC Exar Corp.> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (94mA)
And from dmesg | grep -i usb:
xhci0: <XHCI (generic) USB 3.0 controller> mem 0x6001100000-0x600110ffff at device 20.0 on pci0 usbus0 on xhci0 usbus0: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0 ugen0.1: <Intel XHCI root HUB> at usbus0 uhub0 on usbus0 uhub0: <Intel XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0 ugen0.2: <vendor 0x04e2 product 0x1410> at usbus0 umodem0: <vendor 0x04e2 product 0x1410, class 239/2, rev 2.00/0.03, addr 1> on usbus0 ugen0.2: <vendor 0x04e2 product 0x1410> at usbus0 (disconnected) ugen0.2: <vendor 0x04e2 product 0x1410> at usbus0 umodem0: <vendor 0x04e2 product 0x1410, class 239/2, rev 2.00/0.03, addr 2> on usbus0
It seems that apcupsd isn't able to communicate with the UPS properly. The STATUS field shows COMMLOST. The USB device is detected in usbconfig and dmesg, and I’m using the correct USB connection.
Has anyone else encountered similar issues with APC UPS devices or apcupsd? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
TIA!