How to connect a UPS

[Desperado]

I'm having trouble getting my Pioneer Pro to recognize my UPS (an APC Back-UPS ES 650, on the compatibility list). The UPS doesn't have a USB connection - just an ethernet data port. The UPS didn't come with a cable, so today I went to Radio Shack and picked up one of these. I opened the box and found out that drivers have to be installed, and that they only work with Windows or Macs...so apparently this thing won't work on a ReadyNAS. Is there a way I connect to my UPS without using an adapter with drivers?

[rccoleman]

My UPS has an RJ45 socket on it, but the included cable has RJ45 on one end and USB on the other. I'm not sure why they did that, but a cable is a cable. What you bought is a completely different animal.

Rob

[Desperado]

My UPS has an RJ45 socket on it, but the included cable has RJ45 on one end and USB on the other. I'm not sure why they did that, but a cable is a cable. What you bought is a completely different animal.

Rob

Yeah, I seem to be missing that cable. I bought the UPS four years ago and never needed it until now, so who knows where it is. I'm having a hard time finding a replacement cable online that doesn't involve an adapter box.

[Davidny]

You need to bring that back to the shack and get one of these.

[Desperado]

Never mind! After turning this place upside down for the last hour, I finally found the cable that came with the UPS. It was in a box of miscellaneous crap I never unpacked when I moved here two years ago. I hooked it up, and my trusty Pioneer recognized it immediately!

Thanks anyway. Now I have to go back to Radio Shack....

[Keith_Beef]

I have another question...

I have been running my main system from an APC Back-UPS XS1300 for a year, and just got a ReadyNAS NV+ also powered from the same UPS.

The signal cable goes to the main computer, but I'd like to be able to connect the signal cable to the NAS and have the NAS signal power failures over the network to the main computer.

You see, there are times when the main computer is off, but the NAS is on serving up files to other computers (a Vaio notebook and a MacBook).
K.

[dbott67]

Plug the USB cable into the NAS and let it control the devices on your network. See this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16744&start=0

-Dave