Timeline for How to make an USB cable cross a door?
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| Dec 1 at 13:49 | answer | added | Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica | timeline score: -1 | |
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| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:21 | history | edited | WoJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:14 | answer | added | Stefan Wyss | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:13 | comment | added | WoJ | @Justme Thank you. I updated the post. With this information in hand, I belive that the right thing to do will be to route a long USB-C cable around the frame of the door (despite bing a long way, per an earlier comment) | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:11 | history | edited | WoJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:06 | comment | added | Justme | @WoJ then it depends - USB-C interfaces must not give out supply voltage unless negotiated, only exception is adapters to legacy connectos that can't work in any other way than providing 5V all the time. That info that it's Type-C is important and you should add that to your question. And any custom connector in a USB connection will easily break the safe hotpluggability and incorrect hotplugging sequence of wires may cause damage. Which is why nobody should buy/use/manufacture those magnetic Type-C adapters as they are unsafe too. | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:04 | comment | added | WoJ | @Justme: it is USB-C connector (but I do not know if this is just the form factor, or if there is some intelligence as well) | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:03 | comment | added | Justme | @WoJ If it simply wants 5V from charger and it's standard USB (not Type-C) it cannot and will not communicate anything with the charger. | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:03 | comment | added | WoJ | @user107063 for two main reasons: the first one is that the cable will need to be glued/attached somehow to the frame and it will not be particularly aesthetical (I have a Chief Home Officer to appraise), and then this cable will be constantly under stress when the door open /closes (even if I allow a loose loop). These may not be very good reasons but I wanted to explore the gapped connection anyway. My door is placed in such a way that the cable would need to go up, right, up (that parts is the loose one as it connects the door and the wall), left, down and left. Quite a ride. | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 15:01 | comment | added | WoJ | @Justme: yes, I need power, but I think that USB also provides intelligent signaling and the Nuki may negotiate something with the charger. If this is not the case then yes, it is simply a matter of 5V and a USB plug on the device side | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 14:55 | comment | added | Justme | Even if such a thing that allows sliding contacts to pass/slide from door frame to door when closed, surely it will exist outside the scope of it being an USB connection. You simply seem to want 5V power, not USB? | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 14:53 | comment | added | user107063 | Why not have a longer cable cross the door frame over its top and then come in from the left as intended? | |
| Jul 2, 2023 at 14:44 | history | asked | WoJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |