Bluetooth or USB receiver?
Bluetooth vs.Unifying Receiver (Logitech)
Just bought this keyboard myself arriving in a few days. Reviews have been saying the unifying receiver gives an instant connect, while the BT may have a slight delay.
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Logitech Bluetooth Audio Receiver Issue
Hey there,
Refer the following steps to connect the receiver:
Mobile device
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Connect your speaker adapter to a power source.
NOTE: If you're pairing for the first time, your adapter should already be in pairing mode with the Bluetooth connection LED blinking. -
On your mobile device, go to the Bluetooth menu and scan for Bluetooth devices.
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Locate Logitech BT Adapter in the list of available devices and tap it to connect. Once the connection is established, the LED on your adapter should go from blinking to solid.
Windows
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Connect your speaker adapter to a power source.
NOTE: If you're pairing for the first time, your adapter should already be in pairing mode with the Bluetooth connection LED blinking. -
Open your Control Panel.
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Select Hardware and Sound.
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Select Devices and Printers.
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Select Bluetooth Devices.
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Click Add a device.
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Select Logitech BT Adapter from the list of devices, and then click Next.
Once your Logitech Bluetooth Adapter is paired and connected, you'll need to select it as the default playback device in the Windows Sound Settings. Here's how:
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Open your Control Panel.
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Select Hardware and Sound.
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Select Manage audio devices (under Sound).
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Select "Speakers Bluetooth Hands-free-audio" and click Set Default.
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Click OK.
NOTE: Your PC may install additional native drivers during the connection process. No additional drivers from Logitech are required. The Bluetooth adapter on your PC must support the A2DP profile.
Macintosh
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Connect your speaker adapter to a power source.
NOTE: If you're pairing for the first time, your adapter should already be in pairing mode with the Bluetooth connection LED blinking. -
From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.
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Click "+" to add a new Bluetooth device.
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Select Logitech BT Adapter from the list of available devices and click Continue.
Once your Logitech BT Adapter is paired and connected, you'll need to select it as the default output device in System Preferences. Here's how:
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From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.
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Select Sound.
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On the Output tab, select Logitech BT adapter.
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Close System Preferences.
Connecting additional devices
Your Logitech Bluetooth Speaker Adapter supports two connected devices. To connect additional devices, press the Bluetooth connection button on top of the adapter. This will initiate pairing mode. Follow the steps above to connect a second device to the adapter. If you're currently connected to another device, it will temporarily disconnect from that device to connect to the additional device.
If the issue still persists, DM me your full name, email address and region/country to create a case with our support team.
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Hi, I just bought a Logitech M720 Triathlon, and I'm confused about which mode to use the mouse in. Does anyone know which one drains the battery faster: Bluetooth or the receiver?
Try this solution found at forums.logitech.com. It worked for me. The issue seems to be that the Logitech dongle is using HID mode and needs to be in HCI mode to work with headphones.
When I first got my diNovo Edge, I found and tried the solution here. Unfortunately, I also discovered that following these instructions locks the dongle in Bluetooth mode. That is, even when you power up your system, the dongle is in Bluetooth mode!
That presented a big problem for me, because I could no longer get into the BIOS! (Note: if anyone who sees this knows of a way to use the instructions here to put the dongle in Bluetooth mode and retain the ability to get into BIOS, please share it!)
Anyway, I found an alternate solution, two actually!
The first, which is the one I use, is found here. This guy wrote a small program, called LHid2Hci, which works perfectly. All you do is download the binary and place a shortcut to it in your Startup folder. The binary takes two command line options, the VID&PID values of the Bluetooth dongle. (The instructions are all there.)
The program does exactly what the name says, it converts the Logitech Bluetooth dongle from HID (USB) to HCI (Bluetooth) mode! It's activated when you log in, and voilà! You have your Bluetooth dongle, with which you can pair any other device. (I have a Microsoft Bluetooth number pad and a Bluetooth stereo headset.)
The way in which this solution is different is that, when your system reboots, the dongle goes back into HID mode, meaning that your keyboard is immediately connected, and you can get into BIOS!
That's also why the command to run this program has to be in the Startup folder. It has to run every time a user logs in.
The second solution I mentioned is the LBTService, search on Google.
This is a service that supposedly does the exact same thing as LHid2Hci, but as a service instead of a startup program.
I haven't used this one, since I found the former solution first, however I've seen a lot of people who are using it successfully, so I figured I should mention it.
Are you sure the dongle is actually a Bluetooth dongle? Logitech is pretty big on their Unifying receivers, which are used to connect up to six Logitech devices using similar (but incompatible) technology to Bluetooth.
The unifying receivers tend to be marked with a 'red star' type logo, though my one has the text '1000 Hz' printed on it instead because it came with a 'high performance' mouse.
If it is one of these propriety dongles, you won't be able to repurpose it as a generic Bluetooth receiver.
If your receiver, however, has the blue Bluetooth logo on it, it should already be available within Windows as a generic Bluetooth adapter.