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Hi, working in a large office and we've a couple of people who have other users keyboards/mice connecting to their macs since they upgraded to Yosemite.
Any suggestions? I've seen resetting the PRAM as a solution but trying to track down the owners is a challenge in itself to delete them off the offenders macs. I thought you should be able to block a device from connecting without entering the passcode.
Hey,
Unfortunately due to a couple of different issues with the Bluetooth APIs on OS X MacID has to ping everything in the room to reconnect. It's annoying but there's no work around; Apple are well aware of the issues but they haven't fixed the bugs myself and other devs have reported to them.
As soon as MacID finds the right device is stops scanning, but until then it will continue to ping devices, building up a temporary cache of devices that aren't the right one.
That said, the OP has nothing to do with MacID as MacID launched in 2015!
I've written a short post on the issue so that it's a bit clearer what's happening. macid.co/blog/2016/05/04/macid-for-os-x-reconnection-procedure/
Great, that link links to this post. Let's try again: https://macid.co/blog/2016/05/04/macid-for-os-x-reconnection-procedure/
If for some reason that link still doesn't link to the right place just copy and paste that link... :/
THANK YOU!!!!! Most of us were ready to throw our bluetooth devices and macbooks through a wall today and as soon as we found this, it all stopped. It's been weeks of frustration and now you've saved us.
So thank you!
Just happened to me today for the first time. No one would believe me until i showed them this post.
Yosemite: Random devices connecting over bluetooth to macs since upgrade
