https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/51487/how-to-make-device-hid-compatible-with-win-macWe are developing a mouse with shortcut keys on Nordic, we want to make it compatible both on Win and Mac, but the shortcut key assignments are different between the 2 system. Is it possible that our mouse can know the connected system and send differenten-USTelligent Community 13Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:46:46 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/207357?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:46:46 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:a09ce63a-50e8-494f-910f-0c9f8e069d1aawneil<p>I guess the other thing would be too look into the HID specs to see if they have <em>generic</em> definitions for your &quot;gestures&quot;,&nbsp; which the Host OS would interpret suitably - rather than you having to mimic host-specific keys ...</p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.usb.org/hid">https://www.usb.org/hid</a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/207355?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:40:49 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:a9b5471c-f30d-4554-b73f-655e58cc843fAndrewJiajie<p>Yeh, maybe it&#39;s not Nordic problem, thanks for the remind and advice, we will try to ask on the developer forums~</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/207354?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:36:33 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:af75d3b5-8d9f-4c53-8d6a-3982ebecd1ccAndrewJiajie<p>Susheel, Thanks for your the reply, we will try to do some test according to your clue <span class="emoticon" data-url="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f642.svg" title="Slight smile">&#x1f642;</span></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/207351?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:28:11 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:83f8a11f-dbdf-499d-a2e8-5b59f6e75c01awneil<p>I would think this is going to have to be something that comes from the Host OS (Win or Mac) - so not really anything to do with Nordic?</p> <p>So might be better asking on&nbsp; general BT/BLE forums, and/or on Win/Mac developer forums ... ?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/207348?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:20:23 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:74c73af7-2497-4450-b731-235b334a6155Susheel Nuguru<p>There does not seem to be a straight forward way to do this.</p> <p>But apple IOS seems to be utilizing&nbsp;the characteristic, Manufacture String name (2A29) inside Device information service (<a href="https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/gatt/services/">180A</a>).</p> <p>You can start to see if different OS BLE variants have utilized this service. Do not see any other proper way to differentiate other than the one mentioned.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/207254?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 01 Sep 2019 12:34:27 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:f944f74a-e02c-4d11-8c84-12b92e60c4e5AndrewJiajie<p>Thank you so much for your help! We are looking forward to your reply!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/207145?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:42:26 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:f7353615-6e21-4573-942d-4b0c9331b1ebSusheel Nuguru<p>looks like a genuine usecase, but I am not aware of any native BLE tricks to figure this out, I will try to do a bit more research on this on Monday to see if we can come out with some nice way to deal with this.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>