> You will also need a USB a-a cable that I didn't know existed or was legal.
They exist, but are not allowed by the USB standard. The basic premise of the classic USB standard is that the A side provides the 5V power, while the B side consumes that 5V power. With an A to A cable, you are shorting both power supplies together.
(USB-C changes that to resistors; IIRC, the side with the pull-up resistors will initially provide the 5V power, while the side with the pull-down resistors will initially consume the 5V power. The passive adapters to classic USB just have the correct pair of resistors for the corresponding classic USB plug or socket.)
Yeah, the a-a cable needed is a male-male, but the wyze camera is accepting power via it in this case. The normal power for it via micro usb is disconnected.
I don't use wyze normally, not sure what the type a female port is for.
It's a hack on top of a hack that functions reasonably, and helps with supply chain issues.
It's for attaching the hub to control other Wzye devices, like motion sensors. The hub is pretty small and fills in the indentation to be flush with the rest of the back of the camera.
I’m slightly confused by this. At first you seem to be using A and B to describe whether the connector is male/female but in the next paragraph you use the letter C to refer to the shape of the connector.
I assume in the first paragraph you mean a usb A cable with plugs on both ends
They are different shapes, each shape has both a plug and a corresponding socket. USB A is the traditional rectangular plug/socket, while USB B is the bulky somewhat square shape usually found in printers. There are also mini and micro versions of both A and B, each having both a plug and a socket.
The traditional USB connection has a host with a USB A socket, which provides power; a cable with a USB A plug in one end and a USB B plug in the other end; and a device with a USB B socket. All traditional USB cables are A to B cables, with a USB A plug and a USB B plug; an A to A cable would allow connecting two hosts together, and both would try to provide power at the same time, which might damage the hardware.
USB-C is completely different; all cables have two USB-C plugs, while both hosts and devices have USB-C sockets. Which side provides power is negotiated through a dedicated configuration channel.
USB A and B are both connector types, just like USB C is a connector type. The letters have nothing to do with male vs. female.
USB A is a rectangle, and USB B is closer to a square. I've also never seen anything aside from female USB ports and male/male USB cables (aside from extension cables).
For USB cables there is a host side (type A plug) and a device side (type B plug). These come in standard, mini and micro. You probably havent seen anything but a standard type A (this bit you recognise as the side that plugs into a computer), but are probably familiar with each of the type-b connectors.
Type C is bi-directional, so can replace either or both plugs.
They exist, but are not allowed by the USB standard. The basic premise of the classic USB standard is that the A side provides the 5V power, while the B side consumes that 5V power. With an A to A cable, you are shorting both power supplies together.
(USB-C changes that to resistors; IIRC, the side with the pull-up resistors will initially provide the 5V power, while the side with the pull-down resistors will initially consume the 5V power. The passive adapters to classic USB just have the correct pair of resistors for the corresponding classic USB plug or socket.)