So you have a Mac Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse…maybe you have a combination of one or more of them…
And you have multiple computers? A Macbook Pro Retina, a Windows desktop or a Linux Desktop or another laptop who knows who cares…
I ended up following this tutorial a lot.
You’ll need a KVM, I have a GCS1104…you’ll also need a bluetooth dongle, I tried about 5…none worked finally the Plugable USB Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy Micro Adapter did.
From there I followed the above guide…
- Sync the devices with your windows computers and or linux computers.
- Now sync the devices to your Apple computer
- Run this command on your mac via terminal
sudo defaults read /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/blued.plist
- You should get something like this:
{
LinkKeys = {
"00-aa-bb-cc-dd-ee" = {
"00-00-00-aa-aa-aa" = ;
};
};
}- So the first mac is the mac address of your bluetooth dongle
- The next is the device, then the value is the link key…we need to match these up on the other computers
- Head back over to windows and run
regedit
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BTHPORT\Parameters\Keys
- I had to change the ownership of the Parameters folder to myself to view these keys, then clicked the keys folder and hit F5
- Now you can find the same mac as above and then the device mac
- Click it and change the value to the link key, but hold up…it isn’t so easy
- You need to change the mac os x link key to a windows/linux key
81a83517 cc3c7afc fb8e99fc 5147fbf4
would becomef4fb8e99fc f4fb4751fc998efbfc7a3ccc1735a881
. - If this is too complex for you I wrote a tool for you: https://jsfiddle.net/vxuya97w/embedded/result/#Result
Enjoy!