Setting up a Synology server, I made the mistake of just buying a UPS that had a USB plug on the back thinking oh this is a solved problem, it must just work. No no far from it.

So the UPS I mistakenly purchased is not compatible with Synology. SRV1KI-E wants to run this weird program called PowerChute.

Anyone have success marrying this into the Synology ecosystem?

It also has a RS 232 serial port, I wonder if there’s an off-the-shelf device that would speak serial but output power state via the network or USB.

  • @TedZanzibar@feddit.ukEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    I’ll have to have a look when I’m next in the vacinity but I’m pretty sure I have an APC Easy UPS on mine and it works out of the box.

    Let me get back to you…

    Update: It’s an APC Back-UPS 850. No doubt the instructions banged on about requiring Powerchute but I just plugged it into the Syno and it worked fine. You do need to enable UPS support on the NAS itself of course, from Control Panel/Hardware & Power/UPS, and set it to USB UPS.

    • @jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      At this point, it might be easier just to buy a supported UPS. I’m glad the backups 850 is working. It’s a good data point

      I followed your advice, and went through the settings, and try to enable the USB device. But it’s just not detected.

    • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      APC Back-UPS 850.

      I’d guess that those maybe don’t use the same protocol as an APC Easy UPS. There’s a (widely-used) Linux software package, Network UPS Tools, which can talk to the APC UPSes that I’ve seen in the past.

      https://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html

      It has Back-UPS devices listed in the hardware compatibility list as well as devices from many other manufacturers, but I don’t see any reference to an “Easy UPS”.