Hi there.
I have an APC Smart UPS 1500 with SNMP network connection to my home switch. My home assistant server is also connected to the same switch. I configured my NUT add-on and started it. However it stops with errors. i provided the log below.
What shall I do?
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner: starting
Add-on: Network UPS Tools
Manage battery backup (UPS) devices
Add-on version: 0.16.1
You are running the latest version of this add-on.
System: Home Assistant OS 16.3 (amd64 / generic-x86-64)
Home Assistant Core: 2025.11.1
Home Assistant Supervisor: 2025.11.1
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s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-timezone: starting
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
[19:17:13] INFO: Configuring timezone (Europe/Istanbul)…
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level successfully started
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-timezone successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
cont-init: info: running /etc/cont-init.d/nut.sh
[19:17:13] INFO: Setting mode to netserver…
[19:17:13] INFO: Generating /etc/nut/upsd.users…
[19:17:13] INFO: Configuring user: cruiser
[19:17:13] INFO: Password is NOT in the Have I Been Pwned database! Nice!
[19:17:14] INFO: Configuring Device named myups…
[19:17:14] INFO: Starting the UPS drivers…
libusb1: Could not open any HID devices: insufficient permissions on everything
No matching HID UPS found
upsnotify: notify about state 4 with libsystemd: was requested, but not running as a service unit now, will not spam more about it
upsnotify: failed to notify about state 4: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.52 (2.8.1)
USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.46
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.8.1
cont-init: info: /etc/cont-init.d/nut.sh exited 1
cont-init: info: running /etc/cont-init.d/nutclient.sh
cont-init: info: /etc/cont-init.d/nutclient.sh exited 0
cont-init: warning: some scripts exited nonzero
s6-rc: warning: unable to start service legacy-cont-init: command exited 1
/run/s6/basedir/scripts/rc.init: warning: s6-rc failed to properly bring all the services up! Check your logs (in /run/uncaught-logs/current if you have in-container logging) for more information.
/run/s6/basedir/scripts/rc.init: fatal: stopping the container.
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-timezone: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-timezone successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped