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Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Re: Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Post by Marsymars »

darkteflon wrote: post #16

Anecdata, but I’ve had a terrible experience with Logitech mice on all sorts of Macs over the years - both Intel and Apple Silicon. Bluetooth is almost always a non-starter. The Unifying dongle works, but you’ll need to keep it physically close to the mouse. Unfortunately, Logitech also makes my favourite mouse - the light-weight G Pro X wireless. Their software is atrocious, too. Steermouse to the rescue, thankfully…

I’ve had a terrible experience with (wireless) mice of every brand I’ve tried on my Macs. I very much dislike wired mice, so my solution was to abandon mice and switch to wired trackballs.

Re: Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Post by 0x_rs »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #90
ubertaco wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also found that if I used the Logitech "unifying" adapter, I _still_ had significant 2.4Ghz spectrum interference -- the Logitech adapter was causing my bluetooth headset (also in the 2.4Ghz spectrum) to have significant connectivity issues, and was also causing interference with some game controllers that operated on the 2.4Ghz spectrum in the same room. The Logitech devices connected to that dongle (an MX Mast…

I don't understand how Logitech mice are so popular given how frequently they fail due to switch problems. Everyone I know, from casual users to gamers, has had problems with logitech mouse button failures. Sometimes within months of purchase, even on their high end gaming mice that cost well north of $100, the buttons will stop working or start double-clicking.

The switches "plague" is a very well known issue [0] and it's not reassuring for any potential buyer as you have to return affected devices eventually, DIY replace the switches or hope contact cleaning spray keeps the problem at bay. Despite knowing this I still got an Ergo because, like another poster said, there really wasn't anything like it I found as comfortable (and the many 3D-printable ad hoc designs for further, extreme inclinations were a big incentive).

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/o1jvsy/logitech_a...

Re: Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Post by can16358p »

badlucklottery wrote: post #109
can16358p wrote: post #9

What's the problem of Logitech with Bluetooth? Unrelated to this issue, I bought a Bluetooth audio-to-analog out dongle to stream to my speakers, only to find out that I could not disconnect any paired device from it. It automatically connected to any paired device if the other device's Bluetooth is on. The moment I forcefully disconnect it forcefully connected again. I searched the web to see others' exact same issu…

> What's the problem of Logitech with Bluetooth? From what I've seen, Logitech devices seem to have the transmit power set very high. Like use-it-from-multiple-rooms-away high. I have no idea why they do this, but it tends to make my PCs take a bit longer to detect other Bluetooth devices in the area. But not to the point that they won't connect or function. This includes pretty janky stuff like my hand-built keyboar…

I see. But there is a maximum tx power that Bluetooth devices can transmit legally, is it just high tx power or something else?

Regardless, my issue can be solved via software: it's not "always connecting because of high tx power". I have other Bluetooth devices paired and none of them try to connect to other peers when I forcibly disconnect them until I explicitly hit connect or do a power cycle. On the other hand, the Logitech one does, which is literally the single reason for me to ditch it and never recommend a Logitech device to anyone again.

Re: Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Post by sincarne »

“as Mac OS Monterey was recently released so all the features may not work currently”

This kind of response makes me very angry. Apple release betas of their OS a good four months in advance of full release. It is unacceptable for big vendors to not have their products working when the final release drops. Does Logitech really want people to walk into a store and buy a brand new device that doesn’t work with the majority of theoretically supported Apple devices?

Re: Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Post by Marsymars »

ungamedplayer wrote: post #105
Macha wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdata here also, but I've got a logitech mice and formerly had a logitech headset that had no issues connecting to a mac with bluetooth.

Anecdata here: I had to write a tool to reload the mac bluetooth kernel module once a month because it was so bad.

I don’t use bluetooth but find that macOS gets squirrelly around that time frame anyway, I usually reboot about monthly.

Re: Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Post by Krasnol »

koyote wrote: post #14

Are MX products incompatible with AirPods or is it the other way around? I own a bunch of MX Products and everything works just fine when I'm using any of my bluetooth audio devices (sony, creative, bose, plantronics).

Can confirm. Been using MX products a while now.

Never had any issues.

Re: Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods

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Post by vxNsr »

alvarop wrote: post #39
al_borland wrote: post #20

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Also annoying that the unifying receiver doesn't work with a Thunderbolt dock. I tried using it for a while and got a lot of lag and stuttering. It was really bad. So now I have a Thunderbolt dock that everything else uses, and a single USB-C to USB-A adapter hanging off the laptop just for the precious unifying receiver. I'd be less annoyed if it was USB-C plugged in directly, but still not happy. Previously I used…

Try connecting it to a USB2 port, use a USB extender, or a USB2.0 hub. This is a know issue with USB3 ports: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf

my favorite thing about this doc is that all the pictures are clearly drawn in ms paint.
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