🚀 Nutify: Multi-UPS Monitoring – I Need Your Input! 🙌

[DartSteven]

🚀 Nutify: Multi-UPS Monitoring – I Need Your Input! 🙌

Hi everyone! 👋

First of all, thank you for checking out Nutify, a project born from the need to make UPS monitoring simple, clear and accessible. Right now, Nutify is focused on real-time power consumption monitoring using NUT (Network UPS Tools) and turning that into live visuals (yes, including €/$ cost estimation ⚡💶).

But here's the thing...

I'm looking to take Nutify to the next level – supporting multi-UPS monitoring – and I need your ideas! 🙏

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🧠 Community Brainstorming Time!

If you're using multiple UPS systems in your infrastructure, or planning to, I’d love to hear your thoughts on:

🎨 UI & UX Design

• What would the ideal dashboard look like for multiple UPS systems?
• Should we show all UPS units in one view, or allow switching between them?
• Would a map or grid view help in visualizing units per location/room/rack?

📊 Data & Metrics

• What metrics do you want to see at a glance?
  • Battery charge 🔋
  • Load %
  • Input/Output voltage
  • Status/Alerts ⚠️
  • Runtime remaining ⏳
• What about historical graphs vs. real-time trends?
• Should Nutify offer alerts via email, Telegram, etc. when something goes wrong?

⏱️ Real-time or Interval-based?

• Would you prefer:
  • Live updates (every few seconds)
  • or Polling at fixed intervals (e.g., every minute)?
• What's the ideal trade-off between performance and precision for you?

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🧩 Architecture Ideas – What Would Work Best?

Right now, I'm toying with two main ideas:

Option 1 – 📦 Local Collector + 🔗 Master Container

• A tiny container running on each UPS-connected machine that:
  • Collects and parses NUT data
  • Sends the data to a central Nutify "Master"
• Pros: Modular, scalable, good for larger networks
• Cons: Slightly more setup required

Option 2 – 🌐 Centralized Polling

• One Nutify instance that remotely polls all NUT servers
• Simpler to deploy, but:
  • Depends on network reliability
  • Harder to scale?

What would you prefer in your environment?

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🗣️ Let’s Build This Together!

If you're:

• An IT admin with multiple UPS devices 🖥️🔌
• A Docker wizard 🐳
• A monitoring nerd 📈
• Just someone with a vision 🎯

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

👉 Drop a comment below with:

• Your current setup (how many UPS units, what kind)
• How you’d want to visualize & interact with them
• Any cool ideas you think Nutify should include

💡 Bonus: Mockups, sketches, or even random napkin drawings are super welcome!

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🧷 Quick Links

• 🔗 GitHub Repo
• 📃 Nut documentation (NUT)
• 🐳 Nutify Docker Compose Example (coming soon!)

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Thank you for helping shape the future of Nutify 🙏
Let’s make UPS monitoring beautiful, powerful, and fun – together. 💪

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@DartSteven*

[FoxxMD]

I have 2x APC Back-UPS XS 1500M.

I don't have much an opinion on visualization. My main concern is having a rich API to access all my units as I integrate my units into Home Assistant for wider insight into all my energy usage.

RE: Architecture

I think option 2 (centralized polling) makes the most sense. Since NUT servers already support remote connections and Nutify already supports connecting to them over the network there doesn't seem to be a need to create a local collector. Just use the existing infrastructure for polling remotely. Using "NUT only" data for collecting preserves compatibility for anyone already running their own NUT server (not Nutify).

If a user is only using nutify and wants to migrate to centralized maybe have a new mode for nutify that "only" exposes the raw NUT endpoint (transparently) so that a central instance can collect it.

[utlilb]

I believe that a site (location) switcher should be used for mutil UPS setups. Similar to how Unifi dashboards are. It would also be beneficial to have the location included in notifications. With multiple office locations I would like to know which office switched over to battery and why.

I agree with FoxxMD. the polling and data collection is already set up in NUT. Centralized polling just makes sense.

[DartSteven]

So the best move would be for Nutify to collect data from the other nut servers scattered around.
The problem is that by doing that you don't have control over upsmon.conf and you would lose the notifications from the other servers in real time but you could still get them using upsc and looking for the specific events.
And in case, unique or sepearate database for each ups?
I need to think about it and find an effective solution.

Advice is welcome

[gadgetb0y]

Looking forward to this!

In the meantime, is it possible to run two instances of Nutify on the same host if the upsd port is changed to something other than 3493?

In my use case, standard port mapping and monitoring is not that important because I'm not running nut-client on every machine. On a LOWBATT event, I trigger an Ansible playbook to shut down machines in the rack from the Nutify host, then it finally shuts itself down with a local shutdown command.

[jlbalogon]

Hi.
I think yo need to alter your docker-compose. Must have two containers with diferent names and must set diferent exposed ports for both containers. That could run for you.

[retnuh-code]

I love this; it would be exactly what I'm looking for!
I am running this on dockge on my pi. I have 1 rack with 3 UPS; 1 for network, 2 for servers/pis.

Maybe an X column layout to show past events, current state, and current runtime. Then click each one to go under each to view more?
Love current UX, so maybe keep it but have a drop down for each section to select which UPS. Maybe a compare option to see your usage on each? I am not a UI guy but that'd be neat to see.
My use case is if X UPS power goes out, shutdown X servers gracefully, before the timer (ie, UPS runtime / 2).

[MichelfrancisBustillos]

UI & UX Design

• The ideal dashboard would show an overview of all connected UPSs with the ability to select each one for a more detailed view.

Real-time or Interval Based?

• Polling at fixed, configurable intervals would allow users to choose between more up-to-date data or better performance

Centralized Polling

• This would definitely be preferred for me. I have 6 UPSs, 5 on one NUT server and one with it's own. It's much easier to have one NUTify instance that polls them all vs having to maintain additional collectors.

I am currently using Home Assistant for visualization and some (limited) notifications, but having a dedicated dashboard would be awesome.

[DartSteven]

Just a little update :

[dcarpio01]

Is there a alpha/beta version to test the new multi ups wizard? Will it support snmp ups systems?

[DartSteven]

Not yet. I created three different versions of the code, and I hated all three of them. I need to think it through carefully.

[dcarpio01]

Good luck. This project is really cool, and would be a huge benefit to a facility like mine.

I have 3 network and 4 USB APC units. Ideally, I could run all the USB connections to a single Dell OptiPlex and have all the USB and Network ups units included in a single Nutify instance.

[sdenike]

Not yet. I created three different versions of the code, and I hated all three of them. I need to think it through carefully.

I wanted to check in on this with you to see if you have pushed the multiple UPS code yet? I have 2 UPS's and would love to get them both working in this. More than happy to test out the code!

[magic122345]

I think there should be a modular offline standby UPS compatible with NUTify and produced in China. My boss has money and needs 220V AC input and 220V AC output and about 500watt. Maybe anyone can help with BOM, layout, etc.

[sbuhrmanisme]

I would love this feature. I am building out a NUT setup that manages 10+ UPS devices across 6 rooms.

I vibe coded a simple web gui for adding adding usb devices to usbip in Ubuntu Server (Client and Server) as well as adding them to the NUT configuration with Serial Number as their unique identifier. Each room has a mini PC with Proxmox and an Ubuntu Server VM. The main NUT sever runs on a Dell server with proxmox and an Ubuntu VM.

I love the notification and layout of Nutify, so I would like to use it as the fronted.

[kalanip]

This is awesome! I have a mix of UPSs, 1 APC and 3 CyberPower and I'm hoping to add the UniFi 2U soon. Two cyberpowers are connected a PC each, and the PC will run the standard NUT client app to talk to a NUT server (or Nutify?) running on Docker in a Pi. I plan to connect the other two UPSs via USB to that Pi, to handle graceful shutdowns for my NAS and networking hardware in my homelab rack. I was going to add the UniFi UPS to the mix as well, and hope it will integrate with all this somehow.

[loryanstrant]

I like where this is going, as I have 5 NUT instances around my house. 4 of them are running on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W units, and one is on my Synology NAS.
While I've got them all hooked into Home Assistant, I really like what this solution offers - and so would very much like to see it support multiple NUT instances into a central console.

[dhop90]

+1, I have 4 UPSs connect to 3 systems, I would love to be able to monitor/view all 4 UPSs. Currently I have apcupsd installed on all three systems and one acting as a nutify-bridge running instantlinux/nut-upsd docker image. Nutify connects to the bridge, but only one UPS is displayed (obviously). Visually it would be nice to see the up status of all devices and then the ability to select the details of a single UPS. Look forward to seeing this implemented. Thanks for the great work.

[PRJosh]

I like the UI and features. I do need something to monitor multiple UPS.

UI & UX Design
I believe having all the UPS in one page with basic information (ID, Status, Batt % and possible load %) then open up details per unit.

Data & Metrics
As mentioned at a glance something like ID, status, bat % and load% would be nice. I also think historical data would be best, however if we can set a refresh rate to something in the 1s-15s would be very useful. As for notification personally I like pushover but any type of none email notification would work for me.

Architecture Ideas
I believe option 2 would work the best. Simpler.

Anyway my 2 cents. Thanks for the app.

[asm-ch]

I have an APC Back-UPS RS 900MI and Nutify looks pretty. The value I see under Power Management called "Real Power" is actually the same as "Total Energy Used" so the unit of measurement is wrong here (should be also WH). Maybe the UPS just returns the wrong value here?

[aitaix]

Hi Dart - I am an IT Admin and hoping to use Nutify on 20+ sites with 20-40 UPS' mostly Cyberpower and APC brand. I thought the Server / Client configuration already supported multi-UPS monitoring from multiple sites but apparently not. It would be nice to know the status of each site and ups at a glance and then use Microsoft Teams for Alerts. Let me know if you require any additional help.

[jlbalogon]

Hi everyone.
I've deployed a ZIGOR (spanish brand) TowerPro 10 KVA. Nutify runs within a virtual machine on Proxmox and Docker.
This UPS runs by USB with a virtual serial port from Prolific.
This is the ups.conf that runs for me (in manual mode).
For clients (windows and linux) I use WinNut-Client,
It runs perfectly and I must use this solution in future setups.
Many thanks to the author(s) of this great tool.

ups.conf

[zigor]
driver = "blazer_ser"
port = /dev/ttyUSB0
desc = "ZIGOR UPS"
override.ups.mfr = "Zigor" #Because UPS does not suply this
override.ups.model = "Tower Pro 10 KVA" #Because UPS does not suply this

[jumbi77]

I also got multiple UPS's and I am more than willing to test a an alpha for multi-UPS-support :)

[1920x1200]

Any ETA for multiple UPS support?

[mdstricklin]

I really would like to know this, too. I have 6 UPSes in various parts of the house, and I did a test case with NUT yesterday to see how it works. It's nice, but a centralized status dashboard (ideally with customizable/configurable widgets) would really make it worth the effort of deploying NUT across the house. If he goes with the centralized polling option, I'm 100% on board... but... until then I'm searching for alternatives.

[DartSteven]

#118

[mdstricklin]

Awesome! Glad you're still around.