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USB Hub with v3 Board?

Open bsoben opened this issue 8 months ago • 7 comments

I have been trying to use a small USB hub to hook up both a keyboard and mouse to a v3 board and I'm never able to get anything to show up. Am I missing something?

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Wireless receivers are supported and multiple devices can be connected at the same time using a USB hub (with different mappings for each device if desired).

bsoben avatar Apr 25 '25 22:04 bsoben

Try a different hub, not all of them work unfortunately.

jfedor2 avatar Apr 25 '25 23:04 jfedor2

I tried 3 different hubs, none worked, do you have a specific model that you have been successful with??

bsoben avatar Apr 26 '25 00:04 bsoben

Hubs with the FE1.1s chip should work, for example: https://www.waveshare.com/usb-hub-hat-b.htm

Also CH334 I think.

For the dual Pico variant also the SL2.1a chip works, it's what the variants with a built-in hub use.

jfedor2 avatar Apr 26 '25 19:04 jfedor2

I don't really understand why even the dual pico variant is so picky about hubs. I tried the cdc_msc_hid example from TinyUSB, picked three random USB hubs from my shelf and connected them all in a row between input devices and a pico (RP2040) without any issues, everything worked as expected. Maybe it was just luck, or I am missing something?

braxlan avatar Apr 28 '25 08:04 braxlan

Should work the same. For some hubs the order of plugging things in matters (plug into HID Remapper, devices into hub, HID Remapper into the PC).

jfedor2 avatar Apr 28 '25 09:04 jfedor2

Or maybe some recent changes in TinyUSB improved things - the version used in HID Remapper lags a bit. Need to test.

jfedor2 avatar Apr 28 '25 09:04 jfedor2

Here's a test build with TinyUSB updated to the latest version. Feel free to try it and see if it affects hub compatibility.

https://github.com/jfedor2/hid-remapper/actions/runs/14713179580

("artifact" link at the bottom)

jfedor2 avatar Apr 28 '25 17:04 jfedor2