VE-DIRECT(8)

💖 ve-direct — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ve-direct(8), the driver for your Victron UPS that's out here speaking the VE.Direct serial protocol. it's in the NUT Manual, and yes i'm about to explain the whole thing to you like we're texting at 2am. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

ve-direct — the driver for Victron UPS units running on the VE.Direct serial protocol. that's it, that's the whole job. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's how you summon it, no cap:

ve-direct -h

ve-direct -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

📌 Note, and this one matters: this man page is only about the hardware-specific stuff for the ve-direct driver. everything about the core driver? that lives over in nutupsdrv(8). go read that too, i'm literally begging. 🫶

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✨ SUPPORTED HARDWARE ✨

the ve-direct driver should recognize all Victron models that use a serial VE.Direct protocol at 19200 bps. all of them. every single one. iconic behavior honestly. ✨

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✨ CABLING ✨

use the Victron-provided USB or serial cable to connect your Victron UPS. that's the vibe. don't get creative, just use the cable they gave you. 🔌

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✨ EXTRA ARGUMENTS ✨

this driver supports the following optional setting in ups.conf(5):

• modelname=name — sets the model name. cute, simple, does exactly what it says on the tin. 💖

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✨ BUGS ✨

the HEX protocol is not supported at the moment. 💀 so if that's what you came here for... not today bestie. not today.

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Petr Kubanek <kubanek@fzu.cz> — thank you for your service, king 👑

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

🌸 The core driver 🌸

• nutupsdrv(8) — the main character. go read it. fr fr.

🌈 Internet resources 🌈

• the NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.5/

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okay that's the whole page, you're officially educated 🎀 and for the sign-off: this is Network UPS Tools version 2.8.5, dated 10/07/2026, and yes the footer is serving too. bye bestie, go plug in your UPS 💜🦋✨