I thought I had every cable, adapter, and dongle under the sun.
A second monitor would be soooo helpful for what I'm about to do for my next deadline.
Family visiting for Christmas is sleeping upstairs in my study, so my multi-monitor setup there doesn't help.
I thought - no problem, I've used Duet before with my same Thinkpad and my old iPad Pro w/ lightning connector, and
it has worked perfectly.
However, now I have the iPad Pro with USB-C. Duet is not recognizing it. I searched their FAQ and Getting started - no answer there.
I have these cables:
Apple's USB-C to USB-A (female)
USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
However, to plug it into my thinkpad I needed to find a USB gender changer to go from the USB-A (female) to what I need, USB-A (male).
Net: Still didn't work.
I suspect the gender changer is the problem.
So I looked through my USB-C box to find a single cable that is: USB-A (that is also USB-3)
male to USB-C
I don't have that! I thought for sure I had one.
I do have several that are like:
Apple's USB-C to USB-A (female)
but I can't plug a USB-A female cable into my Thinkpad's USB port. Gah!
Then, I looked on Amazon to find a single cable that is: USB-A (that is also USB-3)
male to USB-C that supports Thunderbolt.
Based on that google engineer who initially exposed all the big problems from bad USB-C cables:
EDIT: I deleted the link to that site. I started looking for his testing approach write-up. Couldn't find it. So I became suspicious the site didn't have anything to do with him.
Sure enough, in the fine print at the bottom of one of the pages, I saw:
This site is not in any way related to the person of Benson Leung or Google Inc.
I removed the link so no one else falls for it.
They are clearly making $$ off of his name. I wonder if he knows about it?
i'll probably go with this one:
When I initially searched, I didn't see any hits because I added "Thunderbolt" to the search.