In my investigations, I have found that for a switch to work successfully, it needs to be connected to a USB hub. It seems like I should be able to connect the Macbook Air directly to the switch just like I was doing with the Macbook Pro With power it does light up and pressing the button on the switch switches the LED indicator on top of the switch but the MacBook Air still doesn't see the mouse and keyboard without the hub in between Without power the switch doesn't light up (it does with the MBP and Razer). Note that this is both without and with external power to the switch. If I plug that between the switch and the macbook air everything works. To add to that I have a VANMASS 9-in-1 USB HUB. I have no idea but maybe there is something about USB-C that makes it just not suppose to work The switch works but maybe something is incompatible? Wrong cables? Maybe there is more than one kind of USB-C to USB-A cable?īad Switch. All 3 cables work fine for other USB devices An Anker Cable, a TacMad cable, and a Elecom USB3-AC15 USB 3.1 cable. I've used these cables for other things in the past. I tried connecting it to the same switch but it's not working and so I'm wondering where the issue is. I've been using it with a 2014 Macbook Pro and a 2017 Razer Blade sharing a keyboard, mouse, and USB ethernet adaptor for the last 3 months. Its point is to share the 4 things plugged in on one side with 2 computers. It has 4 USB A sockets on one side and 2 on the other.
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