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Why is it not possible to do this by connecting phone to pc and running this as software? This is cool but would be nice to avoid the extra hardware.
I'm guessing the hardware is necessary for full info. Your phone probably doesn't support 240W so it wouldn't be able to tell if the cable was able to hit that charging rate.
Because you could fry your PC.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-thats-so-bad-it-fried-his-chromebook-pixel/ USB Type-C cable so bad it fries Google engineer's Chromebook Pixel