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> > <a href="http://canada.newark.com/element14/piview/cable-assembly-hdmi-to-vga-adapter/dp/07W8937">http://canada.newark.com/element14/piview/cable-assembly-hdmi-to-vga-adapter/dp/07W8937</a><br>
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> Just to expand on this a little, I bought the above adapter for use<br>
> with one of my Raspberry Pies. Having spent $35 on a computer, I<br>
> wasn't about to drop another $100+ plus on a new monitor, not when I<br>
> had a couple of 15" LCD VGA monitors available. Reading some of the<br>
> Raspberry Pi message boards turns up the fact that some of the HDMI to<br>
> VGA adapters don't get along with the Raspberry Pi (the adapters steal<br>
> power from the Pi, and some demand more power than the Pi can<br>
> supply...). Bottom line for me was that the "PI View" adapter was a<br>
> safe choice to allow me to re-use monitors with a Raspberry Pi... The<br>
> nice bit here being that these adapters will work in, as far as I<br>
> know, all HDMI to VGA situations.<br></p>
<p>Okay, just realized my mistake and feel like an idiot. I bought this cable the other day in order to watch online stuff on TV. The TV has HDMI and the desktop only has VGA. </p>
<p>Spent a while wondering why its not working. Then today, took the cable to work to test a hypothesis as there is HDMI cable desktop there. No surprising, it do work if the source is HDMI driving the VGA. I haven't hard luck the other way.</p>
<p>Does this mean VGA can't drive HMDI or am I missing something? Any solution around it?</p>
<p>William </p>