Re: Is cable both power and data?

On 11/18/2020 8:33 AM, micky wrote:
> I have a Y-shaped USB cable, 18" long, with type A at one end and the
> two previously most common mini's at the other end, the one that used to
> be used for cell phones and the other slightly bigger one.
> 
> All 3 ends have the USB logo in the plastic.
> 
> Doesn't that mean it's both power and data?
> 
> If it were power only, it should not have the logo, right?
> 
> Yet when I plug one end into the computer and another end into a Harmony
> remote control, I get no beeps from the computer.  So that means the
> cable is defective, right?
> 
> 
> I've had it for years, but I guess I've never used it except for
> charging things.
> 

Just get a straight USB cable with the proper ends. When I used to go to 
thrift shops, they had lots of them.

Bet you will like that remote. I love mine.