mac mini ventura + oculus problems

[wfriedwald]

first, someone please let me know if there's a better forum for this inquiry:

it is now post time. I have been using the Oculus Quest 2 now with my 2018 Mac Mini for about two years, connecting the two with a USB cable and the app OPENMTP - so far they have been working well together.
UNTIL I installed MAC VENTURA, at which point it still worked, but then there was an update of OPENMTP and now they have totally stopped.
what's weird is now, when I plug in the USB cable into the device, I no longer get the notification saying that the connection has been detected.
Up until a few days ago (and this is in Ventura) I would get that ALLOW notification even if OPENMTP wasn't even running. now I don't get it at all.
Can anyone offer any suggestions / feedback / or an alternative means of transferring files from the Mac Mini to the device?
Thanks !
w

 

[Woodcrest64]

I'm assuming you referring to just transferring files to your Quest 2 with OpenMTP. If so, other users are having similar problems with that app and Ventura. One fellow here found a solution by using a different app: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/xw2tqj/comment/ivca8a1/

Here is a comment: "
stan-tastic
· 9 days ago

Ya know, I appreciate everything ganeshrnet posted, but that's just too many steps with enables, disables, reboots. re-installs and removes required to ask for a a simple application to work (that once did in Monterey, but not now in Ventura). Ventura's been out long enough now (including beta) for Android File Transfer to have an update that makes it work.
I tried downloading MacDroid instead, installed it, made a setting or two on my phone, and I'm back up and communicating with my Samsung phone. A lot easier than futzing with OpenMTP and Dropbox and OneDrive and...

 

[wfriedwald]

thank you! Yes, I am just transferring files to the Quest 2, then watching them and deleting them. Yes, precisely!

so you recommend MACDROID, then?

I shall try it via the free trial.

(I also have AIRDROID, but that seems to only work if you install the app on both the Mac and the device, and, with the oculus, that's unfortunately not an option - unlike a phone.)

thanks again very much!

w

 

[wfriedwald]

I gave it a try - and no go.

Somehow, the Mac Mini and the Oculus device just do NOT seem to be able to find each other.

the "tell" is that when I connect via USB, I do not get the "allow" dialog any longer - I don't know why I stopped getting it. I don't think the transfer app matters; I could be wrong about that but, until today, the "allow" question would come up as soon as the wire was connected, whether or not the app was even turned on.

so I don't know what to do - guess I'll have to stop using the headset, alas.

w