{"id":7928,"date":"2014-03-26T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2014-03-26T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T09:00:54","slug":"review-7-port-usb-hub-for-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7928","title":{"rendered":"Review: UUGear 7-port USB hub for the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.uugear.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/USBHUB_01-797x780.jpg?resize=560%2C548\" width=\"560\" height=\"548\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was contacted by Shawn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uugear.com\/\">UUGear<\/a>, based in the Czech Republic, about their new 7-port hub and agreed to review it. So, here goes!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uugear.com\/portfolio\/high-speed-7-port-usb-hub-for-raspberry-pi\/\">UUGear Hub<\/a> features 7 ports on a circuit board that is the same size as the Raspberry Pi itself. You can mount it (using the included metal spacers) above or below the Pi.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.uugear.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/USBHUB_02-245x245.jpg?resize=245%2C245\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.uugear.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/USBHUB_03-245x245.jpg?resize=245%2C245\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USB 1.1 and 2.0 compatible<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Transaction Translator (MTT) &#8211; this allows all ports to run at their top speed regardless of whether you&#8217;re using USB1 or 2 devices.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">Connect up to 7 high powered devices at once\u00a0(depending on power supply)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Able to support up to 1A per port<\/li>\n<li>Stack multiple hubs for up to 127 ports.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">1 LED to indicate power supply<\/span><\/li>\n<li>7 LEDs to indicate individual port activity<\/li>\n<li>Per port over-current detection and protection<\/li>\n<li>Support both self-power and bus-power modes (bus power is selectable via jumper)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video from Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV &#8211; it&#8217;s a quick walk-round and explanation of the features:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w_icDgrJeAU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got three options to power the Pi from the hub. First, there are two header pins on the board which you can connect via female-to-female wire directly to the 5V and GND GPIO pins. Secondly, you can power the Pi over the USB bus (which you shouldn&#8217;t do, but you can switch the jumper to prevent this&#8230; but it works, so hey ho!) and thirdly you can plug the Pi into one of the board&#8217;s 7 USB ports. Below you can see a photo of the hub powering the Pi via the GPIO pins:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-9rvsOuAZRIU\/UwdISrCAVQI\/AAAAAAAALzA\/Q9gh5PROwlo\/w637-h849-no\/20140219_192209.jpg?resize=560%2C746&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">Now, obviously the amount of devices you&#8217;ll be able to successfully use will depend very much on your mini USB power supply. When I used it, I used a 2.1A supply that I happened to have (thank you very much <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.cyntech.co.uk\">Cyntech<\/a>) so I could connect a lot of things to it. Here it is in action with 3 webcams, a keyboard, a mouse and a serial-to-USB cable connected to my old Windows CE HP Jornada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-SiFGvXBNHnE\/UwdImZ-TwvI\/AAAAAAAALzc\/Zq5PTTeOIZg\/w958-h719-no\/20140219_194049.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I actually ran out of devices to connect up at that point! By using lsusb, I confirmed that all the devices were detected, although I didn&#8217;t actually use them at all, I just got the list up.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-5KQl7_5IXcc\/UwdIvYWsAaI\/AAAAAAAALz8\/_40eeoFOUME\/w958-h719-no\/20140219_194124.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">According to Shawn, he has successfully powered three Pis from it! Again, very much depends on your power supply. My attempt at doing this failed due to a dodgy cable, which was a shame (or it could&#8217;ve been because I was trying to power three model Bs and he used a model A as one of his). But here&#8217;s a photograph of Shawn&#8217;s successful experiment (all the Pis have wifi dongles too!):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/673A8E2B@83E93B6E.6E60FE522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7952 alignnone\" alt=\"673A8E2B@83E93B6E.6E60FE52\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/673A8E2B@83E93B6E.6E60FE522.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/673A8E2B%4083E93B6E.6E60FE522.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/673A8E2B%4083E93B6E.6E60FE522.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, this is a great hub. At the moment, you can only get it direct from UUGear but I would expect them to secure a UK distributor soon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uugear.com\/product\/high-speed-7-port-usb-hub-for-raspberry-pi\/\">It costs $29.50 from their store<\/a>. This seems about right considering the manufacturing quality and the small size.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, if you&#8217;re looking for a compact, quality hub with a lot of flexibility to power the Pi, or if you want one that can be mounted to the Pi, and which has an awful lot of ports, I highly recommend picking one up.<\/p>\n<p>For the next few days (until Saturday 29th), there is a 10% off discount code &#8211;\u00a0<em>uugear-launch-2014<\/em> &#8211; that brings the cost of the hub down to about \u00a316.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uugear.com\/portfolio\/high-speed-7-port-usb-hub-for-raspberry-pi\/\">Read more on UUGear and decide if you want one<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uugear.com\/product\/high-speed-7-port-usb-hub-for-raspberry-pi\/\">You can buy it from their store here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was contacted by Shawn from UUGear, based in the Czech Republic, about their new 7-port hub and agreed to review it. So, here goes! 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