If the server had no data for the device, bmspy-ups slept and read again with no report. A battery that stopped answering during a power failure gave no email and no shutdown.
bmspy-ups now sends one email after 5 minutes with no data, and one more when the data returns. A new email for a loss needs another 5 minutes with no data after that return. The same rule applies to the wait at startup.
The charge tests and the power tests were one if/elif chain. If mains power returned while the charge was below the warning threshold, the loop did not report it, did not cancel the shutdown, and did not clear the flags for the next power failure.
The power tests now run first, on their own. The charge tests apply only while the battery discharges for two consecutive readings, so a low battery on mains power starts no shutdown. A device that reports no battery current is judged by its charge alone.
The loop compared the current reading with history[1], history[2], and history[3]. The history holds the oldest reading first, so these were three of the oldest readings. A plain power failure sent no email, and the shutdown started 4 minutes late. The loop now uses the three readings before the current one.
Four tests used reading sequences that matched the old comparison. They now use plain sequences.
bmspy-ups selected its device from the devices that had data at startup, and exited with status 0 if the selection failed. One failed first read ended the monitor or made it select the wrong device.
The server has a new DEVICES command that lists the configured names, and client.list_devices calls it. bmspy-ups selects from that list and then waits for the first data of its device. A wrong or missing --device now exits with status 2. The service file does not restart on that status, because a restart cannot correct it.
An older server ends on the unknown DEVICES command, so update the server first.
The recipient check used a regular expression that never matched, so a full address got the host name appended. The main loop passed the device name with a parameter name that read_data does not have. A canceled shutdown did not clear its flag, so a second incident did not schedule a shutdown. The recorded shutdown time used the wrong unit. The --port option stayed text and never matched the STARTTLS ports.
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