Questions[magic-mouse](ubuntu)

I am using Magic Mouse 2 with ubuntu 20.04. To use the scrolling feature, I had to install this driver: https://github.com/rohitpid/Linux-Magic-Trackpad-2-Driver. The only problem is that I need to execute these two lines every time I restart or reconnect the mouse via bluetooth:

echo "0005:004C:0269.0008" > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/magicmouse/unbind
echo "0005:004C:0269.0008" > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/magicmouse/bind

If I did not unbind then bind after the mouse is connected, I could still use the magic mouse but the scrolling won't work.

Anyways, I was looking for a way to automate this whenever the mouse is connected via bluetooth. I found out about udev but could not get it to work without getting into infinite loop. Here is the content of my hid-magicmouse.rules file under /etc/udev/rules.d:

ACTION=="bind", KERNEL=="0005:004C:0269.*", SUBSYSTEM=="hid", DRIVER=="magicmouse", \
RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo $kernel > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/magicmouse/unbind'", \
RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo $kernel > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/magicmouse/bind'"

This gets into an infinite loop because the script will call itself again after executing the second line (bind command) which is the triggering action for this rule.

I tried changing the triggering action to "add" instead of "bind", but scrolling still does not work.

Here is the output of my udevadm monitor when the magic mouse is connected:

KERNEL[1684.898183] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12 (bluetooth)
UDEV  [1684.905964] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12 (bluetooth)
KERNEL[1685.029515] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008 (hid)
KERNEL[1685.029970] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/input/input494 (input)
KERNEL[1685.030138] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/input/input494/mouse1 (input)
KERNEL[1685.030418] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/input/input494/event15 (input)
KERNEL[1685.030510] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/hidraw/hidraw5 (hidraw)
UDEV  [1685.034983] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008 (hid)
UDEV  [1685.042271] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/input/input494 (input)
UDEV  [1685.050656] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/hidraw/hidraw5 (hidraw)
UDEV  [1685.050881] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/input/input494/mouse1 (input)
UDEV  [1685.088633] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008/input/input494/event15 (input)
KERNEL[1685.627176] bind     /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008 (hid)
UDEV  [1685.632050] bind     /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/dw-apb-uart.2/serial1/serial1-0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/0005:004C:0269.0008 (hid)

Any help to automate or fix this is appreciated!

I try to setup / pair a magic mouse and keyboard with a new Bluetooth stick on my Desktop Ubuntu 20.04.

Unfortunately I do only see Unknown devices and am unable to connect them :/

How to debug / fix this?

I'm trying to set up Ubuntu as my daily driver on my 27 inch iMac. Would the solution for the magic trackpad work with the magic mouse as well? This is a work computer, so I don't want to spend too much time tumbling down rabbit holes.

So I've gone and bought a Magic Mouse and Apple Wireless Non-Numeric Keyboard. The magic mouse worked out-of-the-box almost perfectly, except for the forward/back gesture which still isn't functioning, whereas the keyboard didn't.

It has constant trouble with the bluetooth connection. Only the 7, 8 and 9 buttons and volume media keys correspond correctly with the output. Pressing every single key on keyboard has this output: 789/=456*123-0.+

When I use Blueman the keyboard can be setup and shows up in "Devices" but I get a warning when I click "Setup"; "Device added successfully, but failed to connect" (although removing the keyboard and setting it up as a new device doesn't incur this error).

Using gnome-bluetooth I have encountered no error messages but it connects properly less often than Blueman and I can still only type the aforementioned output.

What am I not doing? Where is this going wrong?

EDIT: I have read this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224673 inside out several times to no avail. It seems these commands don't work for me with the apple peripherals sudo hidd --search hcitool scan

Fortunately I have the luxury of a 1TB hard drive, near limitless patience and no job.

I have installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 64bit (albeit smaller than mine) and after updating and restarting for the first time, I set up my devices in exactly the same way as I have learnt on my original install I succeeded once again with the mouse and, to my joy, with the keyboard also. Though I could not seem to find Alt+F2 and had to reconfigure that and several other keyboard shortcuts, the keyboard is working and in a spectacular fashion.

Still, this leaves me with the issue of my original install. I returned to it with some new found knowledge but failed again.

Perhaps I have a missing dependancy? I did uninstall bluetooth after the initial set up and reinstalled it recently for the pupose of these peripherals.

Maybe it's because I'm running 64bit?

This is still not solved, but easily avoided by not changing too much from the original install. Just hide stuff or turn it off, don't uninstall too much.

I do not want to change my main mouse's settings. I just want to change the properties for the Magic Mouse.

I would prefer to use udev rules. Can anyone tell me how to do it?

So far I have the following info:

/dev/input$ xinput list-props 12
Device 'Magic Mouse':
    Device Enabled (121):    1
    Coordinate Transformation Matrix (123):    1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
    Device Accel Profile (244):    0
    Device Accel Constant Deceleration (245):    1.000000
    Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (246):    1.000000
    Device Accel Velocity Scaling (247):    10.000000
    Evdev Reopen Attempts (238):    10
    Evdev Axis Inversion (248):    0, 0
    Evdev Axes Swap (250):    0
    Axis Labels (251):    "Rel X" (131), "Rel Y" (132)
    Button Labels (252):    "Button Left" (124), "Button Middle" (125), "Button Right" (126), "Button Wheel Up" (127), "Button Wheel Down" (128), "Button Horiz Wheel Left" (129), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (130)
    Evdev Middle Button Emulation (253):    2
    Evdev Middle Button Timeout (254):    50
    Evdev Wheel Emulation (255):    0
    Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (256):    0, 0, 4, 5
    Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (257):    10
    Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (258):    200
    Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (259):    4
    Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (260):    0