🔋 Integrating Nut UPS with Home assistant Sai Monitoring

Alvaro Martinez Muñoz ✅
5 min readAug 7, 2023

What is Nut UPS?

Nut UPS (Network UPS Tools) is a set of open-source software tools for controlling and monitoring UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) devices on a computer network. These tools allow users to monitor battery state, manage power settings, and schedule graceful shutdowns in case of a power outage.

How to install Nut UPS on Linux?

The process of installing Nut UPS on Linux may vary depending on the distribution you are using.

Step 1: Update the system

Before you begin installation, it is important to make sure that your system is up to date. To do this, open a terminal and run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2: Install Nut UPS

Once the system is updated, you can install Nut UPS by running the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install nut

This command will install Nut UPS and all its required dependencies.

Step 3: Configuring Nut UPS

After installing Nut UPS, you will need to configure it so that it can detect and monitor your UPS. To do this, open the Nut…

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Alvaro Martinez Muñoz ✅

Hi!. I´m Alvaro and i´ll share my Personal projects hobbies like Home Assistant and Linux HomeLabs. I hope like my Posts and support me with little beer 🍻