Logitech and Solaar

I have a Logitech keyboard K380s, mouse M350s (pebble) kit, which I used on my StarLite tablet with Bluetooth.

When i wanted to use the included “Logitech Bolt” USB dongle, none of the two peripherals wanted to connect using the dongle.

After some taking batteries out, disabling Bluetooth on the computer, turning things on and off, the keyboard connected. I don’t know how and why.

The mouse seemed lost, or maybe not paired with the dongle.

After some useless searching online — most searching online is useless these days — I found Solaar.

Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices that connect wirelessly to a Unifying, Bolt, Lightspeed or Nano receiver as well as many Logitech devices that connect via a USB cable or Bluetooth.

Installed it — there was a Debian package — ran it, and … nothing.

Ran it with sudo, and the devices showed up.

Using Solaar, I could see that the mouse was paired with the dongle, but inactive.

Disabled Bluetooth, and fiddled with the buttons under the mouse, and by selecting device 3, it connected to the dongle.

So:


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