Hi there, I have a 2018 Mac Mini (i7, 16GB, 512GB SSD).
The internal bluetooth is unusable to connect to my Apple trackpad (interference probably made worse by the large number of devices plugged in to all available ports).
I've been happily using a BT dongle in one of the USB ports on my keyboard to deal with this, using the following terminal command to make the dongle the default BT adapter.
sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=always
I have to reset it (unplugging and replugging the dongle and re-executing the terminal command) after an OS or security update, but apart from that, it's worked really well until now.
I have just updated to Big Sur, and find that the computer resets to the internal BT on each reboot despite using this terminal command, meaning I have to remove and replug the BT dongle every time. I've tried a PRAM reset several times, and trashing the Bluetooth preferences PLIST files, but to no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
The internal bluetooth is unusable to connect to my Apple trackpad (interference probably made worse by the large number of devices plugged in to all available ports).
I've been happily using a BT dongle in one of the USB ports on my keyboard to deal with this, using the following terminal command to make the dongle the default BT adapter.
sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=always
I have to reset it (unplugging and replugging the dongle and re-executing the terminal command) after an OS or security update, but apart from that, it's worked really well until now.
I have just updated to Big Sur, and find that the computer resets to the internal BT on each reboot despite using this terminal command, meaning I have to remove and replug the BT dongle every time. I've tried a PRAM reset several times, and trashing the Bluetooth preferences PLIST files, but to no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!