I inserted some batteries, plugged the dongle and switched the mouse on: nothing. I found it among old RJ45 cables and dusty keyboards: a Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX, using the Unifying technology - basically a tiny dongle to plug to one of the machine's USB ports, and supporting devices of the same product range. I decided I would get one for my personal use as well, and first peeked at Apple's horrendously (and unsurprisingly) expensive Magic Mouse, before I remembered that once upon a time I had a wireless mouse, when I was still a Windows user. Having worked with a Magic Trackpad (version 1) for a while, then with a mouse again for one of my contracts, I realised I actually felt more comfortable using the latter. This post is mainly for my own future reference, but if you are running into the same kind of troubles, hopefully following the quick steps below will help. In my case it was the latter, and it took me a ridiculous amount of time to find a solution, mostly because of borked software. The cordless Logitech Unifying devices can be a bit funny when it comes to MacOS Sierra, be it the scrolling acting weird or the device not being detected altogether.
Hope this helps anyone experiencing similar issues.You can also subscribe to the RSS or Atom feed, or follow me on Twitter. Now I have not rebooted my Mac as yet, to see if the Options app will still work and detect the mouse, but regardless, I can copy the "Logi Options Daemon.app" to the Applications folder and manually execute if needed - until Logitech release a working version! I eventually right clicked the "Logi Options.app" in the Applications folder and selected "Show Package Contents" and hey presto - "Logi Options Daemon.app" was in the "Contents - Support" folder.Īnd when I double clicked to execute it, the Logi Options application detected my Bluetooth mouse and everything worked fine from there on. So I hunted about the application store and searched for the Logi Options Daemon but the search could not locate it.
UNIFYING SOFTWARE FOR MAC MAC OS
Logitech say the "Logi Options Daemon" must be selected and the boxes checked for System Events & Finder - but the logi Options Daemon is not installed in the "Automation" list.Īfter calling Logitech support, I was told there are known issues with the latest versions of Mac OS and they were working on fixing these before releasing an update. Interestingly, after installing the latest version (9.40.75) all of the settings are configured with the exception of "Automation".
UNIFYING SOFTWARE FOR MAC HOW TO
Logitech themselves have articles about how to install and configure Logitech options and the specific security/privacy settings (System Preferences - Security & Privacy) required.
UNIFYING SOFTWARE FOR MAC FULL
Mouse works fine but I cannot customise or reap the full functionality of the MX Mouse productivity without configuring the Logitech Options software, which does not detect the mouse installed over Bluetooth. I have a Logitech MX Anywhere 3 mouse and using Bluetooth to connect. So there is a whole lot of questions and answers regarding Logitech mouse software not working on latest versions of Mac OS.
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