Using on a CI pipeline to dfu flash and devices and run some tests. If anyone has some know to work that I order today let me know!
The fact that this supports switching the upstream port in software is WILD.
We use ~~$1.5k Acroname Hubs[0] for this kind of stuff!! You definitely could be charging more.
Super congrats, huge thanks, and ordering 5 right away...
[0] https://acroname.com/store/programmable-industrial-power-del...
The switchable host is interesting to me. What do people use that for?
However, to your point:
> I think especially the cheap hubs will changes the parts used overtime and not update the revision.
Yeah, the last time I purchased them was December 2022, so I definitely don't know for sure that they still work. But they aren't the cheapest hub, so maybe?
But at that time, I purchased hubs from several manufacturers, and most of them didn't work. The first thing I had working was actually an eval kit from an IC vendor.
Also, many hubs that can theoretically be used powered or unpowered are terrible about backfeeding power, either to the host, or (more commonly) to the wall wart.
It's best to either always use the hub unpowered, or to buy a hub that always requires power, unless you've checked and made sure that it's not going to screw you over.
I've taped a LED strip on the back of the display and powered it from one of the USB ports.
By running `uhubctl --vendor 0451 --action toggle --port 4` from the desktop shortcut, I can toggle LED strip on and off, Philips Ambilight-style.
There's probably a way this could be used to floating batteries at around 80% on devices that support throttling their own charging.
The local USB hub on the shelf was powered from the PC power supply on that shelf, so a single long USB cable from the shelf with the control computer could command the shelf (including the USB hub on the shelf) to fully power up or down, and then control several test devices through the USB hub, and none of the USB devices on the shelf (some of which were bus-powered) needed to worry about not getting sufficient voltage through a long cable and a hub.