Usb Hardware Puns

first of all: I'm aware that this usually is no problem at all, but I just got a music software controller (APC40mkii) that's designed for USB 2.0 and certain buttons don't work. I've been troubleshooting for a while and the only possibility left that the unit isn't broken is that it has to do with the USB compatibility

I use a MacBook Air M1 (it only has USB-c 3.0 ports) and an Anker Hub with two USB 3.0 ports

How can make my MacBook ports "slow down" to USB 2.0?

any hint is highly appreciated, thank you :)

i feel like im losing my sanity, can the hardware source (android) that is getting bypassed by USB audio player pro have an impact on quality? i'm using an old fire 10 hd tablet for my streaming source to LCD-X via topping E30 into THX 789. i switched to my phone today because the tablet was glitching and the sound was DEFINITELY different. Wider, phatter, less squeezed in the middle, just.... air-y. But that doesnt make sense right? the USB audio player pro should be bypassing the audio signal straight to the DAC, how can anything affect it before it gets there? its just a vehicle to stream the signal right? all internal hardware is just bypassed down the cable to the dac, no processing, no eq, no android upscaling, just bit perfect from Tidal to DAC. if I'm wrong then i have wasted months of listening on a steup that bottle knecked quality before it even got to my set up. I swear i hear a significant difference but i dont want to believe, could that be true?

Does anyone know how to capture the hardware IDs of a newly inserted USB device using Powershell? What I want to have happen is that I start a script, and as soon as I insert a USB thumbdrive (for example), the script outputs the hardware IDs for that particular USB device.

Is there a command line program that comes with Windows that gives me this kind of information. (I absolutely cannot install a 3rd party utility.) Or is there a built-in Powershell function that can get it?

Hello,

Recently learned about the USB based Google Coral TPU, and I'm wondering if there is anything similar that is aimed for video encoding. I really like the idea of highly modular hardware that can be swapped in seconds, rather than PCI cards that use more power and space than really needed (limiting me to a set of larger machines for my labs). I do have a machine that is Quick Sync capable but I would rather keep the servers needing hardware acceleration saved as VMs with a USB device passed through if possible; GPU passthrough has been flaky in my experience so this sounds quite interesting.

Thank you,

Curious if anyone has a workflow that allows you to have real-time (or super close to it) song creation using both Synth Plug-ins and actual hardware (midi) using a USB keyboard (Arturia Keystep 37).

I am frustrated by the delay of the Midi Keyboard in playing notes. Yes, I have played with Audio settings in Logic Pro, but still get delay when I'm trying to bring everything together.

When seeing people play with MPC One or X, the workflow just seems to work just great. But can the MPC also control Synth plugin's in Logic?

Curious on what people do to create a real-time song creation process - Is Logic Pro your center piece? Or do you use another approach then move all midi to Logic Pro? (MPC, Native Instruments, etc..)

Thanks for your help.

I don't know if my title makes sense. But what I'm trying to do is setup a powerful central server and then run terminals around the house that will use some kind of remote log in to access the VMs on the server. The goal is to offload centralize all my software and data and be able to access it anywhere in the house.

But if I'm using Parsec/RDP/etc. on a cheap laptop to log into my Windows VM, is there any way to plug in a USB device and have it show up on my VM?

This is going to be a strange post, full disclosure of an in-development, first-to-market OpenSource hardware and software solution to privacy issues with distributed clipboard usage, and work requirements and policies in some offices that require USB-HID hardware solution to be chosen over software ones, to avoid lenghty installation approval processes...

ClipBridge is going to allow a platform for SerialUSB-to-SerialUSB automatic clipboard transfer, to allow utilization for offline-online computer configuration, for those who don't want [yhole and similar setups to be thr single source of privacy.

Hardware to be used as basis is Arduino Due, an available one in these times of silicon IC supply shortages, with 2 USB ports each, 1 USB Host and 1 serial USB... the USB Host one is to be used for the offline computer, to allow for USB HID macro functionallity as well. Early versions show project is going to be absolutly great to explore what you need on the online computer and return code snippets to offline computer with a single button push on the device. Further documentation and the logo shall be hopefully added in comments.

The reason I'm publishing this at this stage of development, is I am having some sort of political persecution here in Serbia... and I fear for my safety. So here is my idea for you in OpenSource GPL3.

Not sure if inappropriate for the sub, but I am in a pickle and someone local is my only hope. Sunday, 11/21, I desperately need a USB TTL UART cable sometime between 8pm and midnight. I will drive to you, I will give you $50 for it. I would just overnight the cable since it's like $5, but given that I'm writing this ad midnight, it still won't arrive on time.

Tried to write my code out, but my uart adapter is 5v on TX and RX, and I popped the board I was working on. I desperately need a 3.3v compliant adapter. If you have one please send me a message!

Thanks!!

I find myself working on many different hardware configurations and thought I'd use a USB3 256GB flash drive to carry around with me whenever I'm doing work with different hardware.

I'm a fairly advanced Linux user, but really want a distro that offers max flexibility and hardware coverage for basically no configuration futzing when I flip machines. I'd like to do UEFI + BIOS booting if that's possible. (I've seen some bootloaders that claim to be able to handle this, but I'm not convinced any of them are a silver bullet)

I find myself doing a lot of things that range from repairing some b0rky Winderp machines (so NTFS and solid FAT32+EXFAT is useful) to flashing firmwares to developing software to penetration testing, E-T-C.

I might also wanna put APFS support on it too, but maybe not super important but it would be nice to have that and HFS+ for pinch hitting situations.

Could anyone point me to the most flexible distro in this respect? I kinda want to treat it as a regular system just on a stick, and Ubuntu drew me toward it at first, but then I saw someone mention problems they had with configuration flexibility. So I started thinking about other distros and then I just threw my hands up in the air with so many choices with no clear experience that leads me to think any are able to have like ALL MODS loaded + all display drivers available + XF86 being able to detect any/all monitors with those drivers.

Any thoughts would be <3333!!!

From what I've read when booting through usb it loads the image to ram/initramfs and writes the fs/changes the grub. Looking to install a different Linux distro on a running distro with the image on the hard drive.

For years now, I've had a frustrating issue where any USB 3.0 drives I have connected through a USB hub will randomly disconnect and immediately connect. This happens when the drives are idle and when the drives are in active use. I've lost data because of this and now keep all of my USB drives in quick removal mode to minimize loss. I've tried all of the following with no resolution:

1. Has happened on my last 3 machines. A Core i7 2600k, a Core i7 7700k and a Ryzen 9 3900x.
2. I've been through over a dozen USB 3.0 hubs over the years. Some cheap, some expensive
3. It happens with Western Digital external drives, Seagate external drives, and hard drive docks
4. It happens when I'm actively using the PC and when it is idle.
5. It happens when the drives are idle and when they are actively in use
6. All machines have been kept up to date with the latest BIOS updates
7. This started on Windows 7 and still occurs on Windows 10
8. A fresh reinstall of the operating system does not fix the issue
9. It does not happen to drives connected directly to the motherboard, only hubs
10. Other devices on the same HUB as the drives do not disconnect and reconnect, only the hard drives.
11. I've tried replacing the USB 3.0 cables on the hubs with higher quality ones without success.
12. It happens very infrequently. Sometimes the machine will go for days without an occurrence, but usually it happens at least once a day.

Ledger has closed source software ..and trezor has its own problems like very limited coin support ..does not support major coins like ada,dot,sol etc

so I thought why not create your own USB wallet ..as described in this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-fIKroG_M

One risk I can imagine with usb wallet is ...when you use the private key to sing the transaction - I guess its exposed to internet vs in hardware wallet it does not leave the wallet ...correct?

But am concerned ledger has closed source software ...which can be changed my developers of ledger any time which makes them risky? don't know much how it works.

I have an Android hardware POS system but once I turn it on it automatically opens the POS application. There are no navigation buttons (no hardware and no overlaid buttons) so I can't get to the homescreen. Within the app there is an option to open the WiFi Fragment within the Settings app but that's all.

The device also has a printer built-in.

The hardware device does have 2 USB-A connections. How would I get to the homescreen with the use of a computer? I have an USB-A Male to Male cable to connect the device to my computer but how should I make the approach to get to the homescreen?

Pictures of the hardware POS system

This is a RetroWave OPL3 (AdLib) audio device I ordered online. It is paired with a PotatoPi Lite developer board, which plugs into a PC via USB. Together, these provide an actual hardware AdLib sound solution for modern PCs. DOSBox-X can make use of this for hardware AdLib support. This was shipped from China and took 3 months to arrive. Product links: https://www.tindie.com/products/sudomaker/retrowave-opl3-sound-card/ https://www.tindie.com/products/sudomaker/potatopi-lite-stm32l-series-dev-board/

RetroWave OPL3 sound device and PotatoPi dev board

Interested to learn more about what products you love and what is used everyday? Any ideas you want for these products that would make it the perfect hub, dock, etc...?

Making some little upgrades to my PC and want to knock out my usb port shortage at the same time. Looking into what the best options are?

I'm 1 port short for plugging in my stick, pedals, throttle, vr, speakers, headphones, etc.

I'm wondering what the reason is (marketing? technical?) and I can't find any information about it

What is the advantage of using a hardware wallet over simply saving your keys in text file (encrypted) on a USB? You can make several USBs and store in different locations. Even with a hardware wallet you should write your seed phrase on a piece of paper, so this would effectively skip a step, with the USBs acting as that backup paper.

Advantages over HW

• Cheap
• Burglar won't know cryptos are stored on there (save file with random name eg 'recipes')
• Works for all alts

Not sure what the downsides are. Disclaimer: am noob, so am probably missing something.

how to fix this problem (board is on, cable changed twice)

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