Yeah, the a-a cable needed is a male-male, but the wyze camera is accepting power via it in this case. The normal power for it via micro usb is disconnected.

I don't use wyze normally, not sure what the type a female port is for.

It's a hack on top of a hack that functions reasonably, and helps with supply chain issues.

It's for attaching the hub to control other Wzye devices, like motion sensors. The hub is pretty small and fills in the indentation to be flush with the rest of the back of the camera.

I’m slightly confused by this. At first you seem to be using A and B to describe whether the connector is male/female but in the next paragraph you use the letter C to refer to the shape of the connector.

I assume in the first paragraph you mean a usb A cable with plugs on both ends

They are different shapes, each shape has both a plug and a corresponding socket. USB A is the traditional rectangular plug/socket, while USB B is the bulky somewhat square shape usually found in printers. There are also mini and micro versions of both A and B, each having both a plug and a socket.

The traditional USB connection has a host with a USB A socket, which provides power; a cable with a USB A plug in one end and a USB B plug in the other end; and a device with a USB B socket. All traditional USB cables are A to B cables, with a USB A plug and a USB B plug; an A to A cable would allow connecting two hosts together, and both would try to provide power at the same time, which might damage the hardware.

USB-C is completely different; all cables have two USB-C plugs, while both hosts and devices have USB-C sockets. Which side provides power is negotiated through a dedicated configuration channel.

USB A and B are both connector types, just like USB C is a connector type. The letters have nothing to do with male vs. female.

USB A is a rectangle, and USB B is closer to a square. I've also never seen anything aside from female USB ports and male/male USB cables (aside from extension cables).

For USB cables there is a host side (type A plug) and a device side (type B plug). These come in standard, mini and micro. You probably havent seen anything but a standard type A (this bit you recognise as the side that plugs into a computer), but are probably familiar with each of the type-b connectors.

Type C is bi-directional, so can replace either or both plugs.

The USB standard has a lot of connectors

https://itsolutionindia.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/usb-tuto...