![]() If you purchase something through them I may get a small commission, which helps cover the hosting costs for this blog. This post contains Amazon Associate links. Updated : I suspect there’s a bug related to using Boot Camp that requires resetting the SMC to get Bluetooth devices working again. Sure enough, that immediately solved my problem and now I’m back to unlocking my system using my Apple Watch. I finally found the solution in a suggestion from someone on Mac Rumors to sign out of iCloud via System Preferences in macOS and then sign back in. Toggling the Handoff settings on the phone and the watch, toggling the “Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac”, and any other settings I could find that were even remotely related, including the Wrist Detection, did nothing to solve the problem. I was unable to unlock my MacBook Pro using my Apple Watch. I’m not positive this is what caused it but the timing seems to be more than just coincidental. Specifically, I reset the Bluetooth config and then reset the SMC. I suspect some troubleshooting steps to get my Magic Mouse 2 working again caused the issue. I suddenly found myself dealing with a frustrating problem this week. I haven’t tested this on previous versions of macOS (only Mojave), though if the rest of the commands work, the script might function by simply removing the statement that generates a notification. If it detects both, it will shutdown the WiFi interface and display a notification, via macOS notifications, that it has done this. This script will check for both an active WiFi connection and also an active Ethernet connection. It may be possible to manage locations and some additional tools, but I didn’t want something that required retooling every time I used my system in a new location, so I decided to write a simple script, using built-in tools for everything except the execution of the script. It’s a simple thing that can cause several problems, especially if you are in an environment where you may need to authenticate to a network or access VPN services. I don’t know why, but macOS doesn’t seem to have an automatic ability to shut down the WiFi adapter when an Ethernet connection is detected. I used ffmpeg to correct this issue with the last video prevoiusly linked. Obviously, this isn’t very good for something recording video that might one day be provided to law enforcement, compiled into a video poking fun at bad drivers or perhaps on the rare ocassion you’re nearly hit by a horse and rider as they gallop across a busy highway. In addition, the video that I pull from the SD cards it records to usually have index errors, which prevent the videos from playing in most players (it works in VLC but requires a little bit of preprocessing to correct index issues). If I replace this one I’m definitely going to get one that has features more similar to my first dashcam. The quality and perspective isn’t as good as my first dashcam – it also doesn’t record GPS and current speed. I replaced it with a less expensive unit and, as they say, you get what you pay for. My first dashcam worked great but after a few years it died. I’ve had a dashcam in my car for several years. ![]()
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