Maximum length of USB cable is 5 meters. It might be too short from your PC to the front door. In my case I needed 8 meters. Before installing I did testing with different kind of setups. Passive 5 meter cable worked but when I extended that, it started to fail. I installed 5 meter active USB cable (it uses 5V of USB to "repeat" signals) and 3 m passive extension. This works just fine, but adding 1 meter extension makes it fail again.
Later I found another option, "Newlink USB 1.1 CAT5E Booster". They promise to extend limit to 50 meters. I bought and tried it out with 20 meters ethernet cable. Works just fine! I'm not using it in my project but this is good to know, if you need to use Yubikey from far away from PC.
PS. This device uses ethernet cable, but it's just a cable. This device has nothing to do with ethernet. If it would, that would possibly provide another neat way to capture Yubikey-logon directly from network traffic...
In my experience working as a digital operator on pro photoshoots, cables longer than 5m start to have issues 5m is what I and many others I know work to as a maximum without adding repeaters and power boosters etc
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