Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse - any connection issues?

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I have been using a wired keyboard and mouse for the past couple years with my MK2, SLB and micro-PC (MeLe Quiter 4C Fanless PC Win11 Pro).

I am occasionally frustrated by the wires.

I am considering purchasing a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

Has anybody had any issues with using wireless keyboard and mouse ?

BTW, I am using USB-C from the SLB to the micro-PC (with ferrite beads at each cable end).
I am going to be changing to Ethernet, I just haven’t gone there… yet.

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@R.Portman I’ve been using a logitech wireless keyboard and mouse forever without issues. I also use a samsung table to control gSender. No issue there, either.

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I’ve been using this: Amazon.com

So far pretty happy with it. I’m not necessarily a fan of touchpads but this helps eliminate any dust-related issues with a mouse and keeps my cords to a minimum.

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In my earlier setup, my pc in my office was handling cad and cam. To work with the mill 10m into the other room, I had two different bluetooth keybords connected to it and have recorded no trouble with them.

I now have a dedicated pc at the machine using a wired keyboard and a bluetooth mouse. The mouse goes to sleep pretty fast and needs to be woken by clicking a mouse button resulting in possible random activation within gsender. I’ve implemented a pause on start to be sure the machine doesn’t suddenly run a programm when all I wanted was waking up my mouse, like it did a few weeks ago.

I might replace it with a wired mouse, someday. I don’t like risking rezeroeing anything and screw over a perfectly good piece of wood, but I also don’t like the extra wire it will give.

I also don’t like needing to wake my mouse by switching it on off and on again with that tiny ass switch at the bottom side.

Either I learn to live with it, or it ends up on the lawn beneath my window waiting for me to roll out the lawn blender.

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Have you disabled “USB Suspend” ?

https://www.makeuseof.com/ways-to-disable-usb-selective-suspend-in-windows/#:~:text=Navigate%20to%20System%20and%20Security,battery%20and%20Plugged%20in%20options

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Hey Roland,

That pc has been configured to never sleep with anything. It’s the mouse that is going into battery save model pretty quick. It’s a cheap ass buckstore minimouse so I don’t blame it for not being top notch and if it buggs me enough, it’s byebye, but, I use the lm table pretty much for anything, even a quick spray paint on something isn’t off the table.

Let’s say, a mouse on my lm need to be dead cheap or indestructable.

Pause on start and sleepy mouse is my price to pay, for being cheap.

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I converted the SLB interface to Ethernet. After making the changes to the settings, I had to reboot my mini pc and just for good measure the SLB.
All has been good since.
I worked 40 years in Electronics. Last 20 was R&D/Production. One of my last test stands was plagued by USB ground loop issues (smoke and melted cables). Had I designed all the controls with Ethernet it would not have been an issue.

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