Mac Client (Sonoma 14.5), Sharing USB Bluetooth Dongle

Submitted by vrxgaminginc on #1

Hi, 
 

I am trying to share my bluetooth dongle to my mac running sonoma 14.5. I was able to get Sonoma to recognize the external USB dongle and use it over the internal one when directly plugged into the mac by following these instructions: https://dongle.hideez.com/how-to-use-hideez-bluetooth-dongle-on-macos/s…

However, when I move the dongle to my android server, Sonoma does not use shared dongle. I can see the dongle recognized under USB, AppleUSBUserHCI but Sonoma uses the internal bluetooth (this happens when it cannot find an external one). When I plug the external USB bluetooth dongle directly to my system, it shows up in USB 3.1 Bus and Sonoma uses it.

Please let me know if there's a known working solution to sharing USB bluetooth dongles with Mac OS client. 

Thanks!

Submitted by Michael on Wed, 2024/05/29 - 15:31

#2

No i think Mac blocks Bluetooth via VirtualHere. 

(It works as a server however, just not as a client. ie. if you use the Bluetooth dongle plugged into your mac elsewhere via virtualhere it should work)