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by Narushia 1291 days ago
Sadly, the demo didn’t seem to work on my devices. Tried it on desktop Chrome and my Android phone (Galaxy S22); Chrome says that a "notification was sent" to the phone, but there’s nothing. Seems like it’s supposed to work wirelessly, but I didn’t have any success via a USB cable either. Android Chrome does react to it, and shows that it’s connected, but desktop Chrome’s dialog keeps just spinning until it times out.
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Wireless is over BLE, so your motherboard needs to be recent enough to have it, or if you have one of those Intel PCIe wi-fi adapters, the USB2 cable should be plugged in to a header on the motherboard (the wifi functionality is pure PCIe, but for some reason Bluetooth is over USB).
It’s an Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200, which should have BLE support; I use BLE game controllers with it all the time. But it’s weird that it doesn’t work with a USB cable either, even when using the motherboard headers. I’m on Linux (Fedora), not sure if that matters or not.