---
name: "hidups"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "nut-usb"
version: "2.0.4-4"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hidups"
---

# hidups(8)

Experimental driver for HID UPS equipment

## NAME

hidups - Experimental driver for HID UPS equipment

## NOTE

This man page only documents the hardware‐specific features of the hidups driver.  For information about the core driver, see [**nutupsdrv**(8)](/nutupsdrv/8.md).

This is an experimental driver.  Not all features may work correctly.

## SUPPORTED HARDWARE

**hidups** is an experiment to bring USB UPS monitoring to NUT on Linux.  It should detect any UPS that uses the HID power device class, but the amount of  data it currently reads is limited.  This is due to the interface to the  kernel.  Better interfaces are planned.

## EXTRA ARGUMENTS

This driver does not support any extra settings in the     [**ups.conf**(5)](/ups.conf/5.md).

## BUGS

The status field has been known to blank out after self‐tests on APC  hardware.

Most of the status registers on better‐documented equipment are not yet  available due to interface limitations.

This driver is tied to the Linux hiddev interface, and probably isn't very  portable as a result.

## SEE ALSO

### The core driver:

[**nutupsdrv**(8)](/nutupsdrv/8.md)

### Internet resources:

The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/