USB switch

[Joel Hammer]

Well, some success with this.

After waiting about two or three weeks to get my manual
mechanical switch box, it finally came. I had specified a
supplier and a model number to our purchasing people. Our
purchasing people substituted a manual electronic switch,
from a different company, which didn't work.

So, they let me order it myself, and it came within
four days, and was just want I wanted, a simple manual
mechanical USB switch. It works as expected. The camera
changes its mode (camera vs storage device) when you throw
the switch. Progress, but this only took me about 6 weeks
to solve.

Now, to figure out how to program my computer to
automatically upload. I may have to use windows, but I'll
use tcl in that case.

Joel

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:22:32AM -0800, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> > 
> > You may find that it still behaves as though the camera is plugged in.  If
> > so, this is probably due to a mechanical switch inside the camera sensing
> > the inserted plug and changing the mode of operation based on that.  Under
> > these circumstances there is no USB switch that will make a difference.
> 
> I have already checked out that possibility.  I believe
> this does not happen. The computer must be turned on and
> the wire going from the computer to the camera must be
> plugged at both ends. There seems to be an electronic
> signal form the USB port that keeps the camera in a
> non-functional state while plugged in. I tried to uninstall
> the drivers (usb) and also detactivated the USB port in
> the bios. Same result.
> 
> BTW, I am still waiting for my switch box. Our ordering
> people at work are quite slow.
> 
> Joel
>