Hello,
I just received a new HA Yellow. When trying to connect my zigbee dongle or whatever other USB componrnt to any of the USB 2.0 Type-A Host ports, nothing seems to work.
An USB memory stick is even not flashing a LED, seems the ports have no power at all.
What am I missing ?
Sorry I don’t have an answer for you. I just ordered a HA Yellow myself and now, of course, and wondering why this might have happened. Did you find a solution?
No solution yet, I bought a powered USB hub as possible the power consumption of the Skyconnect & the RS485 converter was too high, unlikely as they where / are working fine on my good old Raspberry pi 4.
No solution as still no USB device being detected.
I contacted the vendor, lets’s see what the feedback is from them, may be I just had bad luck with this device
I had to send the yellow back, seems to have been a hardware malfunction. Case closed
I had the same problem trying to install a Z-wave stick.
I found the USB did not seem to be powered, the stick has a LED indicator and it would not light when inserted.
But insert it, power cycle the yellow and it seems to detect the USB and power it.
Problem solved.
So I’ve had a HA Yellow for a couple of years and the USB ports seem to have gone kaput. I had a power outage (multiple in a row, on-off, probably power surges, too) and after my ZWave and Matter integrations stopped working. Power cycled the Yellow several times, no good. First I thought it was the dongles, but they show up with lsusb on another system, but on the HA Yellow nothing, also no power lights. I’m hoping it’s just the carrier board and I can migrate the Pi4 module to another machine. In the meantime I’m migrating my HA install to a NUC - fortunately everything else seems to work except the USB ports.
Edit: I’m still going to migrate to a NUC for other reasons, but afterwards I’ll see if I can get to the bottom of this. I seem to recall the Yellow had a special mode on its USB ports for programming, maybe it got set into that mode somehow.
My Yellow has needed shutdown/poweroff/wait/poweron cycles before, for about a year, to bring back the ZWave every once in a while. At the time I thought it was the dongle. But it could well have been the USB ports flaking out.
I have a Yellow that’s about 5 months old. Previously had Blue connected to a USB 2.0 hub containing a Zwave controller and Bluetooth controller. Rock solid for 4 years. After swapping in the Yellow I’ve had the yellow lose contact with the USB devices every 3-4 weeks. Had to power cycle the Yellow to get them back. Tried swapping USB ports on the yellow and a different USB 2.0 hub. Both USB hubs were powered. Problem still persists. I’ve been powering the Yellow through the barrel plug since day one.
Any update on this ? I’m experiencing similar issues. I bought a new Yellow with CM5 module a few months back. Trying to get matter support via Sonos USB stick but the stick (or any of the other ones i tried with) are showing any reaction on the Yellow. - dmesg - lsusb … nothing happens …
may be a silly remark, is the JP1 jumper on UART?
After swapping my CM4 to a CM5 I spend 1 hour trouble shooting why no usb device was showing up before I realized I missed that step in the procedure for swapping CM4 to CM5
Thanks koen71 - it was just that.
I’ve spent a bit more more than an hour on this 