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How do you guys allocate your USB ports?
- Thread starter SGM1980
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did you put the grommet back over it? i'm using the grommet on the passenger side to pass my satellite radio power cable through, but i like having the grommet back on top of it to keep it in place and protect the cord. the satellite radio power cord is very thin, so i know there's not much room there...
No, I removed the grommet altogether. I thought about “deepening” the notch so it fits, but I haven’t yet.
cool, that's what i figured. i'm thinking about pulling the console out and just adding two more USB up front, but i haven't gotten that far yet. ideally that's probably the best option.
How do you plan to do that? The up front ports are part of a single integrated hub unit ...
Sure but what if I like leaving that dedicated sentry drive in there and then do music on a separate USB which I can carry back and forth. Or how about if a friend brings their USB.
davewill
Active Member
I"m not a big fan of doing them on the same drive, either. It's fine if you're using a big (250GB+) SSD drive that has advanced wear leveling and lots of extra space, but for a smaller USB stick or SD card, I wouldn't want music to be statically using 70-80% of the drive and having all the Sentry files rotating on the last 20-30%.
You could repartition it every once in a while so that the Sentry partition is at the other end of the drive. It would be the flash drive equivalent of rotating your tires.
davewill
Active Member
True, but it might be worth it to some people if they need that second port for other things.
Here's my setup:
USB1: 256 GB high endurance micro SD card partitioned into Music and TeslaCam/Sentry partitions, connected via adapter.
USB2: Portable battery
Battery: USB-C PD for fast charging cell phone dock position 1, USB-A to lightning (or whatever I need to swap that out for depending on my passenger) for slow charging phones in dock position 2.
I've tried splitter setups in the past but had bad experiences with them. It caused USB music to not work well and resulted in more corrupted TeslaCam videos.
USB1: 256 GB high endurance micro SD card partitioned into Music and TeslaCam/Sentry partitions, connected via adapter.
USB2: Portable battery
Battery: USB-C PD for fast charging cell phone dock position 1, USB-A to lightning (or whatever I need to swap that out for depending on my passenger) for slow charging phones in dock position 2.
I've tried splitter setups in the past but had bad experiences with them. It caused USB music to not work well and resulted in more corrupted TeslaCam videos.
I like this idea in theory. But I worry that extreme hot temperatures in the cabin when the car is parked in the sun on summer days would result in degradation of the battery, and cold temps in the winter would keep it from providing enough power to work properly when the battery is cold.
HighZ
Member
Same here and it works great. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P7ZTBJR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
sduck
Mr. Duck
I have the Taptes wireless charger and the splitters , and then I have 2 x Sandisk usb with a formatted 128gb micro sd card. One I’d hoped to use for dashcam and one maybe for music.
what am I doing wrong when I plug it all in with the splitters I can only get one of the sandisk/sd to work so that covers dashcam etc . But then I can only get one half of the Taptes wireless charger to work.
what am I doing wrong when I plug it all in with the splitters I can only get one of the sandisk/sd to work so that covers dashcam etc . But then I can only get one half of the Taptes wireless charger to work.
make sure you're plugging each thing into the correct side of the splitter. one side is power/data, the other just power.
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