I know there are TONS of articles on this, and I have read many of them and still have trouble.
Ultimate goal: Connect my APC UPS to Home Assistant to monitor for power outages.
Setup:
- HassOS running directly on Raspberry Pi (not docker)
- APC UPS plugged directly into the Pi via the RJ45 to USB cord that came with the APC
- Within Home Assistant: Configuration -> Integrations -> Add integration -> Network UPS Tools (NUT)
The setup instructions for NUT are here apparently: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-nut/blob/c022f38864d44a7a88b9dfcc3a49dc8afc4acb20/nut/DOCS.md
But, just putting in host as a0d7b954-nut as the doc suggests with username nutty and password changeme, I get the error Failed to connect.
Now, it seems like I need to actually run the UPS server somehow, but I can’t figure out how.
Any tips?
Additional info:
- I tried SSHing into the pi running hass.io using
ssh [email protected], but I getconnection refused. This seems like its own issue… - I shut down the pi, unplugged the RJ45, and plugged it directly into a monitor, but when I log in using
root, I get an error sayinghome assistant cli is not running. Jump into emergency console. This scared me because googling this error just brings up a bunch of people who had dead SD cards… I plugged the pi back into the network and out of the monitor and everything started up fine, so the pi isn’t dead thankfully.
UPDATE:
I ended up getting it to work following this guide, which connects the UPS to my Synology NAS (which I happened to have - not all will…). Now it works just fine.
UPDATE 2:
Wait… was this addition to the configuration.yaml (below) the only thing I was missing when I had the UPS plugged directly into the pi? That would be frustratingly simple…
mode: netserver