UPS Monitoring

[dfortier (Danny)]

I have an older APC ups. (SUA2200RMU2U) that has serial and usb connections. Anyone have any success bringing something like this into HA?

[dfortier (Danny)]

I guess my first search wasn’t too good. I found this. after posting. For anyone else looking for the same thing.

How to connect your APC UPS to Rpi and Home Assistant using apcupsd!

I searched and didn’t find anything like this here. Since I was figuring it out I thought I’d post this for anyone else wanting to do this. I plan to use this to send pushbullet alerts if my system goes on battery, meaning the power has gone offline. All my networking gear is on this UPS so I’m hoping the message will make it out before everything goes offline. I have an old APC Back-UPS XL 1000. It has a 10-pin RJ50 connector on the back. Perhaps you have the cable that came wi…