I’m slowly getting frustrated.
My new 5v 2a power supply also didn’t work with the hub:
My newly ordered usb c extension also doesn’t work:
It actually works for charging and also keyboard & mouse but no video signal at the vga output of my docking station. without using the extension video works. That sucks because the description states it does transmit video.
I will now buy another docking station.
Does somebody know a confirmed working usb c extension cable that works for all three things (and at the same time): charging, data and video?
Well option 1 is buying that and option 2 is the aenzr. Not 100% sure yet.
Even more desperate trying to find a working usb c extension cable that can transmit power, data and video at the same time. If you guys know one please let me know.
This was precisely my problem. I had a 250€ Lenovo docking station from my work. Charging, keyboard and mouse worked, but video didn’t. Companies apparently know that the majority of people are going to use the devices with Windows and don’t care about proper Linux support. They have tested it with Lenovo notebooks on Windows and released it on the market.
No video works with the docking station. But if i put my extension cable between the phone and docking station, video does not work despite the cable description says it should work:
Someone knows a working extension cable for power, data and video and all at the same time?
Today i recieved my docking station from purism and EVERYTHING (charging, ethernet, keyboard, mouse & monitor) works! https://shop.puri.sm/shop/usb-c-hub/
Yes, YIWENTEC #1000180 should work as advised from its manufacturer. But I’m tired now to proof anything, especially related to the similar USB4 extension cable video transmission, so please wait until tomorrow (need to proof very same thing for myself as well, with some problematic docking … actually two of them).
Just to make sure before testing: you are about to extend USB-C male connector (from some docking station) toward the host (connecting the host) and this host name is Librem 5? Oh, yes, I already have your answer:
What would you connect that with? I don’t understand what you’re suggesting me to do.
What i’m trying to do is placing the librem 5 as far away from the docking station as possible.
Well 0.8m is OK, i can live with that, but 2m or even 3m would be better.
Edit:
I think what you’re suggesting is using a usb cable and connect it with the librem 5 and an usb port from the docking station?
I don’t know if that would work.
Aren’t you supposed to use the short usb c cable from the docking station for connecting the phone?
Unfortunately not since there is only 1 usb c port on the purism docking station and that is used for charging.
There are 2 usb a 3 ports which of one i do not need, though.
I’m noticing other issues (perhaps software related, the one that is still in development) with my non-… external convergence equipment, but still hope that my answer somewhat helps (as toward your question related).
I’do not know much about at this point of time (but will look around based on …, but shorter data cables we are considering as the ones that are more reliable/quicker (video signal related …).
EDIT: @Michael24, please take a look at this link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000369786129.html, in order to get there … as quite more reliable solution (another setup idea of mine that includes connection to the above linked HDMI adapter from DELL, before you decide to buy anything new, and going to search for something else as well, yet this HDMI extension cable setup I’m already warmly suggesting, and even manufacturer is the known one or the one that I should recommend here).
EDIT II: Now after another short test I do not think (not any more) and almost sure that using USB4 extension cable is something not to be recommended at all (as possibility of getting the HSYNC and VSYNC blanking intervals on your external screen/monitor is relatively high), therefore please stick toward buying of adequate (in quality/length) HDMI extension cable (as my primary advice, while all my writing up to this point was actually based on your intention to use USB3.2 Gen 2 extension cable or USB4 extension cable with the here related docking station, or any other).
Unfortunately it is not that simple. For this application it needs to be able to deliver all of
a) power (in the direction from dock to phone)
b) video
c) data
Sure if it’s just a passive cable taking all the conductors through, it could work but it also needs to meet other conditions in order to do the job.
Docks tend to be highly asymmetric i.e. not all the USB-C ports / connectors are created equal. Usually exactly one USB-C port supports power-in to the dock (and will be marked as such) and exactly one USB-C port supports the three functions necessary to connect to the host device, be it a laptop or the Librem 5, and will be hard-wired in.
“Data” meant generically, as in “electrons not meant to power the device.” I consider video data, although yes there are data cables that don’t deliver video.
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