On 11/22/2016 6:16 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/22/2016 01:28 PM, Daren Schwenke wrote: >> I believe he means you can't charge the tablet while using the OTG cable, >> and without some hacking, he's right. >> You can do the same thing with 'reverse tethering' through the normal USB >> interface/cable though. >> Never got far enough to make it work, but it looked like it would. Ir's on >> my list. :) > > I'm pretty sure many devices support charging and using USB-OTG at the > same time. You can buy a Y cable that has a male micro plug, a female > micro plug for hooking up the charge, and then the female USB-B plug for > attaching a USB device. Guess it must depend on the device. I have a Y > cable ordered; I'll see if it works with my particular tablet. I really > hope it does because in my particular case (nothing to do with > MachineKit at all), a little USB hub plugged into OTG is really what I need.
The tablet I'm using has a separate barrel jack for charging, which is probably why it charges and works fine while operating in USB host mode with the OTG cable. I hadn't thought about the tablets that only have one USB port for communication _and_ charging. I guess sometimes it pays to be cheap! :) -- Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
