[HN Gopher] Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods ___________________________________________________________________ Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods Author : frankfrank13 Score : 15 points Date : 2022-06-30 22:20 UTC (39 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (support.logi.com) (TXT) w3m dump (support.logi.com) | frankfrank13 wrote: | If you buy a bluetooth mouse (and seemingly keyboard) from a | company known for their bluetooth peripherals they will not be | compatible with the single most popular peripheral in the world. | I'm shocked this has gone on this long. | LeoPanthera wrote: | To summarize: If you use a Logitech bluetooth device, it creates | enough interference that high-bandwidth products like the Airpods | will not function correctly. | | If you switch the Logitech device to use their "unifying" | adapter, which doesn't use bluetooth but a different proprietary | wireless protocol, the problem goes away. | | Logitech acknowledged the problem about six months ago but thus | far have deflected any further questions about a fix. | altairprime wrote: | They may have legal liability for causing undue interference, | and thus may be advised not to discuss it with the public; or | they might just be pretending not to care, since Logitech tends | to be bottom of the barrel in hardware this decade. | | I encourage _only_ US owners of both the defective Logitech | products _and_ of AirPods, to write a complaint to the FCC | reporting the problem as you experience it and asking the FCC | to respond. | | https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new | | (Interference; Unlicensed.) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-30 23:00 UTC)