Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
On my 2017 MacBook Pro, bluetooth was a capturable USB device. That macbook also had regular USB ports on the outside. On my new 2018 macbook, with only USB-C on the outside these are alle the capturable USB devices:
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How do I capture bluetooth in Virtual Box?
Thanks.
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How do I capture bluetooth in Virtual Box?
Thanks.
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
Do you have an unused bluetooth adapter connnected to a host USB controller? If yes then you can capture it. If not then you can't.
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
I'm sorry, maybe I'm not seeing it, but where is the Bluetooth in that list of USB devices? Can you post the output of:
VBoxManage list usbhost
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
I think that was the original question: Is the Bluetooth controller in the 2018 MacBook Pro still USB connected?
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
There's no other way to connect a Bluetooth controller AFAIK, they're all USB based/connected...
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
I'm not a MacBook user, nor ever planning to be, so I have no way of knowing if the MBPro 2018 needs a Bluetooth controller for standard hardware. I.e. why did it ever need one, why not USB throughout?
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
Oh, come on Don! I have Apple shares for crying out loud! Help a brother out, buy a Mac...mpack wrote:I'm not a MacBook user, nor ever planning to be
The Bluetooth controller is connect via USB οn on the Macs I've owned/seen.mpack wrote:why did it ever need one, why not USB throughout?
According to MacTracker, there are two MBP 2018 models, the 13" and the 15" one. Both of them have Bluetooth 5.0. And if they have Bluetooth, 99.99% it's via a USB controller. I'll wait for the output of the "list usbhost" command... And if that's not good enough the output of:
ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0
+-o Bluetooth USB Host Controller@14300000 <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x1000004b8, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (2095 ms), retain 21> | { | "sessionID" = 11942074782 | "iManufacturer" = 1 | "bNumConfigurations" = 1 | "idProduct" = 33424 <-- ProductID in decimal, 0x8290 in hex | "bcdDevice" = 281 <-- Revision in decimal, 0x0119 in hex | "Bus Power Available" = 500 | "USB Address" = 9 | "bMaxPacketSize0" = 64 | "iProduct" = 2 | "iSerialNumber" = 0 | "bDeviceClass" = 239 | "Built-In" = Yes | "locationID" = 338690048 | "bDeviceSubClass" = 2 | "bcdUSB" = 513 | "USB Product Name" = "Bluetooth USB Host Controller" | "PortNum" = 3 | "non-removable" = "yes" | "IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"9dc7b780-9ec0-11d4-a54f-000a27052861"="IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBLib.bundle"} | "bDeviceProtocol" = 1 | "IOUserClientClass" = "IOUSBDeviceUserClientV2" | "IOPowerManagement" = {"DevicePowerState"=0,"CurrentPowerState"=3,"CapabilityFlags"=65536,"MaxPowerState"=4,"DriverPowerState"=3} | "Device Speed" = 1 | "USB Vendor Name" = "Broadcom Corp." | "idVendor" = 1452 <-- VendorID in decimal, 0x05ac in hex | "IOGeneralInterest" = "IOCommand is not serializable" | "IOClassNameOverride" = "IOUSBDevice" | }
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
We may be talking at cross purposes. Obviously if a PC has a bluetooth controller then it connects to the USB bus - they all work that way. The question I couldn't answer is whether the new MBP has a bluetooth controller at all, as that's an obvious answer to the question "why can't I see my bluetooth controller".
Ok, so next obvious question. Has the bluetooth been disconnected or disabled?
Ok, so next obvious question. Has the bluetooth been disconnected or disabled?
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
It does as I said according to MacTracker (a database of all Apple things related), but the online specs from Apple (under Wireless) show the same thing; yes, there is a Bluetooth adapter.mpack wrote:The question I couldn't answer is whether the new MBP has a bluetooth controller at all
I've never had in my 3 different Macs an issue with this. So, I'm a little bit puzzled as well...mpack wrote:Ok, so next obvious question. Has the bluetooth been disconnected or disabled?
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
ok... I've been dealing with this issue since yesterday. My host is OSX 10.15.4 (Catalina), I'm hosting Win10... there's NO WAY to see the bluetooth inside Win10!
Am I missing something?!
Am I missing something?!
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Re: Bluetooth on MacBook Pro 2018 (usb-c)?
(1) BlueTooth is connected to the USB bus, i.e. it is implemented as a Bluetooth/USB adapter.lucas72 wrote:Am I missing something?!
(2) USB devices can't be shared, they must be owned entirely by the host or entirely by the guest.
Hence, the guest can't own a device (the Bluetooth controller) which the host is using. On Windows hosts I believe the host can be robbed of a device (all host bluetooth connections will fail), vut OS X hosts use a different mechanism and it seems that OS X locks USB devices to prevent them being ejected.
It's a consequence of the fundamental difference between running an application in your host vs running it in a second (virtual) PC.