Help
  • Get started
  • Ask the Community
  • How-To & Best Practices
  • Contact Support
Login / Register
Brand Logo
Help
  • Get started
  • Ask the Community
  • How-To & Best Practices
  • Contact Support
close
  • Community Home
  • Forums
    • By Topic
    • By Topic
      EcoStruxure Building
      • Field Devices Forum
      • SmartConnector Forum
      EcoStruxure Power & Grid
      • Gateways and Energy Servers
      • Metering & Power Quality
      • Protection & Control
      APC UPS, Critical Power, Cooling and Racks
      • APC UPS Data Center & Enterprise Solutions Forum
      • APC UPS for Home and Office Forum
      EcoStruxure IT
      • EcoStruxure IT forum
      • EcoStruxure IT™ Advisor CFD
      Remote Operations
      • EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert Forum
      • Remote Operations Forum
      Industrial Automation
      • Alliance System Integrators Forum
      • AVEVA Plant SCADA Forum
      • CPG Expert Forum DACH
      • EcoStruxure Automation Expert / IEC 61499 Forum
      • Fabrika ve Makina Otomasyonu Çözümleri
      • Harmony Control Customization Forum
      • Industrial Edge Computing Forum
      • Industry Automation and Control Forum
      • Korea Industrial Automation Forum
      • Machine Automation Forum
      • Modicon PAC Forum
      • PLC Club Indonesia
      Schneider Electric Wiser
      • Schneider Electric Wiser Forum
      Power Distribution IEC
      • Eldistribution & Fastighetsautomation
      • Elektrik Tasarım Dağıtım ve Uygulama Çözümleri
      • Paneelbouw & Energie Distributie
      • Power Distribution and Digital
      • Solutions for Motor Management
      • Specifiers Club ZA Forum
      • Електропроектанти България
      Power Distribution NEMA
      • Power Monitoring and Energy Automation NAM
      Power Distribution Software
      • EcoStruxure Power Design Forum
      • LayoutFAST User Group Forum
      Energy & Sustainability Services
      • Green Building Scoring and Certification Forum
      Light and Room Control
      • SpaceLogic C-Bus Forum
      Solutions for your Business
      • Solutions for your Business Forum
      Support
      • Ask the Community
  • Knowledge Center
    • Building Automation Knowledge Base
    • Remote Operations Devices Knowledge Base
    • Geo SCADA Knowledge Base
    • Industrial Automation How-to videos
    • Digital E-books
    • Success Stories Corner
    • EcoStruxure IT Help Center
  • Events & Webinars
    • All Events
    • Innovation Talks
    • Innovation Summit
    • Let's Exchange Series
    • Partner Success
    • Process Automation Talks
    • Technology Partners
  • Ideas
    • EcoStruxure Building
      • EcoStruxure Building Advisor Ideas
      Remote Operations
      • EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert Ideas
      • Remote Operations Devices Ideas
      Industrial Automation
      • Modicon Ideas & new features
  • Blogs
    • By Topic
    • By Topic
      EcoStruxure Power & Grid
      • Backstage Access Resources
      EcoStruxure IT
      • EcoStruxure IT™ Advisor CFD
      Remote Operations
      • Remote Operations Blog
      Industrial Automation
      • Industrie du Futur France
      • Industry 4.0 Blog
      Power Distribution NEMA
      • NEMA Power Foundations Blog
      Energy & Sustainability Services
      • Active Energy Management Blog
      Light and Room Control
      • KNX Blog
      Knowledge Center
      • Digital E-books
      • Geo SCADA Knowledge Base
      • Industrial Automation How-to videos
      • Remote Operations Devices Knowledge Base
      • Success Stories Corner
  • companyImpact

Important Announcement: Community Back to Full Functionality

Dear Members, we are thrilled to announce that our Community is back to full functionality and that posts publication is now enabled again! We appreciate your patience during the last weeks. Learn more about our Community Guidelines. Thank you, Schneider Electric Community Team.

WM_POWERBROADCAST

APC UPS for Home and Office Forum

Support forum to share knowledge about installation and configuration of APC offers including Home Office UPS, Surge Protectors, UTS, software and services.

cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
  • Home
  • Communities
  • APC UPS, Critical Power, Cooling and Racks
  • APC UPS for Home and Office Forum
  • WM_POWERBROADCAST
Options
  • Subscribe to RSS Feed
  • Mark Topic as New
  • Mark Topic as Read
  • Float this Topic for Current User
  • Bookmark
  • Subscribe
  • Mute
  • Printer Friendly Page
Invite a Co-worker
Send a co-worker an invite to the portal.Just enter their email address and we'll connect them to register. After joining, they will belong to the same company.
You have entered an invalid email address. Please re-enter the email address.
This co-worker has already been invited to the Exchange portal. Please invite another co-worker.
Please enter email address
Send Invite Cancel
Invitation Sent
Your invitation was sent.Thanks for sharing Exchange with your co-worker.
Send New Invite Close
Top Experts
User Count
BillP
Administrator BillP Administrator
2127
UnexpectedBill_apc
Captain UnexpectedBill_apc
88
voidstar_apc
Janeway voidstar_apc
83
Techie_apc
Admiral Techie_apc
83
View All

Invite a Colleague

Found this content useful? Share it with a Colleague!

Invite a Colleague Invite
Solved Go to Solution
Back to APC UPS for Home and Office Forum
Solved
rh500_apc
Crewman rh500_apc
Crewman

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

0 Likes
2
425
  • Mark as New
  • Bookmark
  • Subscribe
  • Mute
  • Subscribe to RSS Feed
  • Permalink
  • Print
  • Email to a Friend
  • Report Inappropriate Content

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

WM_POWERBROADCAST

This was originally posted on APC forums on 3/16/2013


Hi,

I have both a BK350EI and a BE700G-GK.

Windows 7 x64.

I'm trying to make a VC2008 c++ program detect when the UPS is on battery power.

Is there a way to detect "power off line" status via the existing windows APIs for this purpose. If not - Why not?

Is the only benefit of this device some low sounding beeps that goes of 10 minutes before the power is cut?

i.e a delay of the power cut, but if no one hears the alarm no one hears the beeps there are no benefits at all?

There must be a way to write a program that can detect the power problem - I want to do that using WIN32 and c++...

Have tried two different approaches:

1. fails to detect anything when the UPS plug is removed from the wall.

SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS stPS;

GetSystemPowerStatus(&stPS);

- same info returned both when on battery and when on line power.

2. fails to detect anything when the UPS plug is removed from the wall.

WM_POWERBROADCAST via

hPowerSourceNotify = RegisterPowerSettingNotification( hWnd, &GUID_ACDC_POWER_SOURCE, DEVICE_NOTIFY_WINDOW_HANDLE );

hBatteryPowerNotify = RegisterPowerSettingNotification( hWnd, &GUID_BATTERY_PERCENTAGE_REMAINING, DEVICE_NOTIFY_WINDOW_HANDLE );

- no events are sent when on battery.


The USB cable to the computer should add expected benefits, not confined to the PowerChute software.


How do you access useful info from the UPS device using VC2008 c++ in windows?


Regards

/Ronnie


Labels
  • Labels:
  • Universal Transfer Switch
Reply

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

  • All forum topics
  • Previous Topic
  • Next Topic

Accepted Solutions
rh500_apc
Crewman rh500_apc
Crewman

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

0 Likes
0
425
  • Mark as New
  • Bookmark
  • Subscribe
  • Mute
  • Subscribe to RSS Feed
  • Permalink
  • Print
  • Email to a Friend
  • Report Inappropriate Content

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

This was originally posted on APC forums on 3/18/2013


Thanks for your reply,

I managed to get it working.

First i tried writing for the HID Power Device spec by using hidapi-0.7.0, and probably it can be made working with more effort...

But I abandoned that and installed the alternate drivers from www.apcupsd.org.

The program apcaccess displayed all the info I could want, and i looked in the source and implemented the status-command via sockets and parsed the text to get what i wanted.

One could parse the output of apcaccess instead, to skip the socket handling.

It seems wrong that such facilities are not made available by APC, you have paid for a  product that is crippled by default.

I realize that the registry could be used to monitor (limited) status, but it seems more like a hack.

/Ronnie

See Answer In Context

Reply

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

Replies 2
voidstar_apc
Janeway voidstar_apc
Janeway

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

0 Likes
0
424
  • Mark as New
  • Bookmark
  • Subscribe
  • Mute
  • Subscribe to RSS Feed
  • Permalink
  • Print
  • Email to a Friend
  • Report Inappropriate Content

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

This was originally posted on APC forums on 3/17/2013


Hi Ronnie,

I've never tried to use VC2008 to monitor a UPS, but here's two approaches I'd attempt:

1) Since the UPS is a standard USB HID Power Device (spec is here), you could try looking at the PowerSummary ACPresent usage.

2) I've also heard that PowerChute maintains several registry keys with useful information. I haven't investigated this, but you might look to see if there's one that shows AC present.

3) You can replace PowerChute's shutdown program with your own like these guys over here.

I think the windows API functions aren't working for you because PowerChute needs to disable windows' built-in UPS support in order to function correctly. Hopefully you can still get the information you need using the above methods, and if not, you can uninstall PowerChute to re-enable Windows' UPS support.

Let us know how you make out.

Reply

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

rh500_apc
Crewman rh500_apc
Crewman

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

0 Likes
0
426
  • Mark as New
  • Bookmark
  • Subscribe
  • Mute
  • Subscribe to RSS Feed
  • Permalink
  • Print
  • Email to a Friend
  • Report Inappropriate Content

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

Posted: ‎2021-06-29 11:06 PM

This was originally posted on APC forums on 3/18/2013


Thanks for your reply,

I managed to get it working.

First i tried writing for the HID Power Device spec by using hidapi-0.7.0, and probably it can be made working with more effort...

But I abandoned that and installed the alternate drivers from www.apcupsd.org.

The program apcaccess displayed all the info I could want, and i looked in the source and implemented the status-command via sockets and parsed the text to get what i wanted.

One could parse the output of apcaccess instead, to skip the socket handling.

It seems wrong that such facilities are not made available by APC, you have paid for a  product that is crippled by default.

I realize that the registry could be used to monitor (limited) status, but it seems more like a hack.

/Ronnie

Reply

Link copied. Please paste this link to share this article on your social media post.

Preview Exit Preview

never-displayed

You must be signed in to add attachments

never-displayed

Additional options
You do not have permission to remove this product association.
 
To The Top!

Forums

  • APC UPS Data Center Backup Solutions
  • EcoStruxure IT
  • EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Expert
  • Metering & Power Quality
  • Schneider Electric Wiser

Knowledge Center

Events & webinars

Ideas

Blogs

Get Started

  • Ask the Community
  • Community Guidelines
  • Community User Guide
  • How-To & Best Practice
  • Experts Leaderboard
  • Contact Support
Brand-Logo
Subscribing is a smart move!
You can subscribe to this forum after you log in or create your free account.
Forum-Icon

Create your free account or log in to subscribe to the forum - and gain access to more than 10,000+ support articles along with insights from experts and peers.

Register today for FREE

Register Now

Already have an account? Login

Terms & Conditions Privacy Notice Change your Cookie Settings © 2023 Schneider Electric, Inc