metasys(8)

metasys8

Driver for meta system ups equipment

Usage

metasys -h

metasys -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

Supported hardware

The metasys driver was written with the "Meta System UPS Protocol Rev.1.12" kindly supplied from Meta System.

The driver should support all the common features of the UPS models:

• HF Line (/2) 1-8 boards

• HF Millennium (810, 820)

• HF TOP Line (910, 920, 930, 940, 950, 970, 980)

• ECO Network (750, 1000, 1050, 1500, 1800, 2000, 2100, 2500, 3000)

• ECO (305, 308, 311, 511, 516, 519, 522, SX, SXI)

• ally HF (800, 1000, 1250, 1600, 2000, 2500)

• Megaline (1250, 2500, 3750, 5000, 6250, 7500, 8750, 10000)

Cabling

The needed cable is a standard pin-to-pin serial cable with at least pins 2, 3, and 5 (on DB9 connector) connected.

Extra arguments

This driver supports no extra arguments from ups.conf(5).

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 3.1–6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9–11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Bugs

This driver has been tested on Meta System HF Millennium 820 and ally HF 1000 only.

Any information about the use of the driver with the other listed UPS are really welcome.

Author

Fabio Di Niro <[email protected]>

From nut 2.8.5-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.