... Well I am not taking the risk, I've just ripped open the cable and cut the red cable and it's no longer powering the Pi now! I assume I only needed to cut the red to stop all power backfeeding? I've tried a USB keyboard and it still works :) Fair enough. I'm not a fan of doing it either. Cuttin...

This happens with about 50% of low-to-medium-cost hubs. As long as the hub's PSU is "of good quality" (ie. produces a clean. stable, 5V) then you're unlikely to "fry your Pi". However you're by-passing the Pi's polyfuse and over-voltage protection circuits so there is an "increased risk", but many ...

Hello I realise this has probably been posted to death but I am getting mixed information from Googling this issue. Basically I got a USB hub today off eBay, I plugged it into the Pi and noticed the Pi suddenly powered on without my power plug plugged in.. It seems that the powered USB hub is back f...