So I tripped on my tacx ant dongle and bent it pretty badly at the connector.
I thought it was broken but after I bent it back and added some tape it seems to work ok. Though I don’t really trust it to keep working like that.
I was thinking I could just solder a new usb connector on it instead of buying a new one and also making it even longer.
I’ve lengthened some usb 2 cables in the past which was no problem.
But is the tacx antenna usb 2 or 3? I can’t find the info anywhere.
If it’s wired like a usb 3 cable I think I’ll just buy a new one.
I am not a hardware guy, but the official thisisant.com website has a lot of technical and low level information spread across many specification documents. It’s a bit cumbersome to find exactly what you need, but overall they are very well written, nothing like the bluetooth mess. I used them to implement the ANT+ protocol in javascript for use in the browser. You would need to make a free profile to get to see most of them.
The expensive Tacx ANT dongle appears to be exactly the same as the cheap ones. Difference is the cheap ones are full size USB and the Tacx is mini-USB. But a cheap one plus a 2/$5 USB->mini USB adapter is still cheaper than the Tacx one, and about the same size.
