I finally managed to understand your question. No, the phone is definitely controlling the IOIO and the IOIO is not the host. I used your looper to control the IOIO - staying as close as i could to your examples (Hello IOIO etc.)
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 7:35:17 AM UTC+3, Ytai wrote: > > I think you might be somewhat misusing the term OTG. USB OTG has to do > with the ability of a device to switch between being a host on the USB bus > to bring a device, based on which side of the cable it is connected to. > Since all phones used to be only devices, manufacturers started using the > term OTG to mean that their device can also be a host. > The IOIO worked with Android long before any phones had host mode, so the > lack of OTG support in itself is not a problem. Since it sounds like from > your description that you're using the IOIO as a host, it is more likely > that what you're seeing is a result of the bug I linked to rather than lack > of support. > Makes sense? > > On Oct 16, 2017 21:28, "Ilan Tal" <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > With the new phones your board simply doesn't exist under OTG. Nothing we > could do would give signs of life. > That is the contribution of the UTB OTG checker programs - they have no > connection to your board. > All of these programs claim that OTG is dead, so big surprise that the > phone can't see your board under OTG. > > > On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 7:21:59 AM UTC+3, Ytai wrote: > >> Is this the case for both directions? I.e. the IOIO as either host or >> device? >> >> On Oct 16, 2017 21:11, "Ilan Tal" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Yitai, >>> Unfortunately we have to accept the fact that phones less than about 1 >>> year old no longer support OTG. >>> Blue tooth is the only solution. >>> The cable I asked about does nothing. >>> >>> There are several programs to check USB OTG on the phone itself. These >>> are useful as an independent check, independent from your board. >>> Any of them will work on "old" phones but will fail on new phones, >>> indicating that the phone does not support OTG. >>> The cable is simply a red herring and contributes nothing. >>> >>> Too bad that the OTG technology came and went within 5 years, but this >>> seems to be the case. >>> So we will switch our system from OTG to blue tooth. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ilan >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 5:04:44 PM UTC+3, Ilan Tal wrote: >>>> >>>> I would like to ask about the IOIO OTG on the latest phones. >>>> To my amazement many of the latest phones no longer seem to support OTG. >>>> (What I see is that I can't make any connection with Hello IOIO.) >>>> >>>> There is a cable you can buy >>>> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009YPYORM?tag=won00-20 >>>> that seems to solve the problem, but I'd like some feedback. >>>> >>>> Ideally, this might work: plug the micro usb into the phone and then >>>> make a connection between one of the 2 male connectors to the IOIO. >>>> I don't know who has experience with this. >>>> >>>> If that fails perhaps another possibility is to plug the micro usb into >>>> the IOIO and use a male connector to blue tooth. >>>> This is using the cable as a simple pass through, but I might be able >>>> to use the other connector to supply 5 volts to the IOIO? >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Ilan >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "ioio-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ioio-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
