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[Help] USB Hub
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:07 pm
by skrapps914
So I had this hub laying around. Opened it up the board is pretty small. I disconnected all wired, desoldered the DC power input.
I'm working on my first GB0. New to this all.
Looking for guidance as to where I'm supposed to solder the power wires to power this up
Thanks!
Re: [Help] USB Hub
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:27 pm
by joe7dust
It'd be cool if you could also use the card reader that is built into it. Then you could have a pi with 2 different cards to mount potentially. I'd probably have one running retropie and one running raspbian lite vanilla for web browsing/multi-media playing, not sure how you'd add a boot menu for selecting which of the cards to use though.
Re: [Help] USB Hub
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 12:27 am
by Fleder
That is why you should take photos before you desolder everything.
I am not really sure what you want to achieve but
the Power and GND pins are clearly labelled as such on your board (lower left corner on your picture).
5V for red wire and GND for the black one. The other two are for data iirc.
Re: [Help] USB Hub
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:16 am
by wermy
It looks like the sets of pins in the four corners are for the usb ports, and the one at the bottom is for input.
But yeah, taking a picture in beforehand in the future helps a lot, as @Fleder suggested.

Re: [Help] USB Hub
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:46 pm
by skrapps914
thanks guys, i figured it out. was able to get it connected. when i connect it to pi 0, its strange, its able to power a usb stick, but will not power a keyboard
Re: [Help] USB Hub
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:59 pm
by drlbradley
skrapps914 wrote:thanks guys, i figured it out. was able to get it connected. when i connect it to pi 0, its strange, its able to power a usb stick, but will not power a keyboard
I found that if I powered my usb hub from my power breakout board , rather than the Pi, it was much more stable.
More than 2 devices attached to the Pi-powered hub and the Pi would glitch to reboot