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  Background This article describes the steps necessary for integrating a NUT installation on a Raspberry Pi into openHAB for a GreenCell USB UPS. For setting up NUT on a Raspberry Pi see here . Install openHAB Network UPS Binding For details of the Binding see openHAB documentation  here . Log into the openHAB Web Console as Administrator. Click on Settings: Select Bindings: Select the Binding "Network UPS", you may need to click on "Show xxx More" in the list under the heading " openHAB Distribution" : Click on "INSTALL" (here is shown "REMOVE" as I already installed it). Once the binding has been installed click on Things: Click on the Add icon in the bottom right hand corner of the page:  Click on "Network UPS Tool" in the list of "Choose Binding": Click on "Network UPS Tool Thing" in the list of " Add a new Thing: networkupstools ": In the following screen input values for "Location"

  Background This article provides a guide for installing a USB UPS attached to a Raspberry Pi. In my case I had purchased a GreenCell 600 360W USB UPS. Integrating the USB UPS requires using NUT (Network UPS Tools). This UPS uses the blazer_usb driver. Installation NUT Plug-In the UPS USB-Connection to the host. My device showed up as Device 006 below: # lsusb   Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0001:0000 Fry's Electronics MEC0003 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0309 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB3.0-CRW Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0658:0200 Sigma Designs, Inc. Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 (ZW090) - UZB Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Microchip Technology, Inc. (formerly SMSC) SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Microchip Technology, Inc. (formerly SMSC) SMC9514 Hub Install the NUT package with the apt package manager:   sudo apt-get install nut Make some configurations and changes in the nut directory /etc/nut: # cd /etc/nut drwxr-xr-x 2  root nut  4096   Jan 11 00:49 .