Data only USB-cable

[Lartzu]

I'm looking solution for data only USB-cable for ESP32 <-> WIN10.

I made cable where only data (white& green) are connected. Unfortunately it seems that Windows is not finding the USB-port with this cable when the board is power from other source.

Is there away to connect to board with data only cable and how the cable should look like?

[Sprite]

At the very least, you need ground (the black cable) as well.

[Lartzu]

The ground didn't help.

[georgewicks]

I too am trying to use a Micro-USB data only cable with no success. I am powering the ESP32 DevKit separately - it works just fine, but I do need to a working setup with a data only cable. Espressif has made claims that one can use a data only cable, but so far no luck. Please help!

[firdoshdiakus]

I used the green and white data wire with the black ground and it works, just leave out the red + wire