[maemo-developers] N900 usb host + power charge

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 22:55 +0200, Kees Jongenburger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I plan to create a proposal for the push n900[1] and I plan to use the
>> usb port. I have the following question.
>> When the device is in usb-host mode it should of course provide power does it?
>> Is it possible to charge the device while it's in usb-host mode?
>
> The other way around: is it technically possible to have the n900 (and
> n810) behave as an USB keyboard when connected to a PC? And even better
> emulate any other USB device like a webcam, etc...?
The kernel gadgets still kinda lacks support for this. but the good
new is that there are other ways

Using bluetooth to make the device act as HID device:
http://www.valeriovalerio.org/?page_id=174

Using Synergy + usb_net
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/


Greetings