 If you're using a Logitech R400 or similar clicker remote presentation remote for your Mac and are having any issues with it Then this video is for you Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name's Alec and this video is all about this little thing It's a presentation remote clicker or whatever the technical term is and I recently did a video about how I had discovered or rather realized that you could use it with Ecamm live to advance your scenes Now I've had this for number of years now use it for obviously presentations which is what it's intended for to advance my slides in either keynote or PowerPoint and Yeah, it's just a very simple thing. It's got a couple of buttons on it So left and right for advanced to forward and next slide and then sort of come out of the presentation And then it's got a little laser pointer on it as well to point But obviously that's a little bit obsolete these days isn't it since we're all doing virtual presentations But anyway, that is what we're talking about now after I posted that video I had somebody post that they or comment rather that they had been out and bought one specifically for this use case, but then it wasn't working with the Mac and So we're worried a little bit that it was not gonna actually work and might have to send it back And I'm hoping that that isn't the case because this particular model of clicker as I call them is Pretty ubiquitous really in the world of presentations and as I say I've been using it with my Mac for quite a long time But the reason why it might be confusing is because if you go to the Logitech website Which I shall do now just to show you It does actually say and by the way, I linked to this in the Description of my previous video so I linked to it on Amazon to buy the exact model that I've got But when you go to Logitech and you scroll down the page Here's all the information about it and how great it is and down here We've got these different models and if we have a look at the Specification, so this is the one that I've got. There's also this one by the way, which is very similar It's slightly more expensive, but it's got a little LCD display and displays things like slide number and all of that sort of stuff But if we come down and look at the compatibility It says Windows and there's no Mac there And it's not just a case of them forgetting to put it in because this one right next to it does have Mac So that is a little bit confusing and it's confusing to me as well because it says it's not compatible But I've been using it for years, so it makes me wonder exactly why that is I wonder if there's some sort of Technicality in there that it means it's not maybe Entirely compatible out of the box or something like that. I'm not sure but we'll get to the bottom of it today Hopefully because I'm going to walk you through how to set it up And I'll show you that there is actually software that you can download for it from Logitech themselves So with that little bit of confusion in our way, let's try to move on and Come down a little bit further. In fact, where is it? It's a little bit up. In fact, and we've got this Section here called downloads. So if we click on view all downloads That will take us through. I have to actually click it. Don't I that would help always clicking the link by the way top tip Helps you to actually get through to the link so here is the downloads for the wireless presenter the r400 and Show all downloads. So if we click on that button Then we've got choose your operating system. So either Windows or Mac So if I come down to Mac and I click on the only one that's available By the way, that is just seems to be giving me the sort of latest version I'm on the latest version of Mac OS. I've been using it as I say for This particular one. I think I bought four years ago something like that So I've upgraded my Mac at every single update that there is and it's just work flawlessly throughout all of those updates so Assuming that you're on a relatively new Mac and it is on the latest Version of Mac OS then it should be all right And what we can do here is we can click on download now and as I say mine's already working But I'm just going to go through the process of doing this just so that we can see What there is and what to expect and it's downloading that now So as soon as that has downloaded, I'm going to go into my downloads just here at the top And then I'll just launch it from there And so that's the one the presentation presenter pairing utility So if I just double click on that to open it up it should So it's going to ask me make sure do I really want to open this program? Yes, I do and In a little moment with a bit of luck it should Pop up now the question is where is it opening? That is the question. Ah, it's down in my dock and it hasn't actually shown that's better So here you can see it is welcome to the Logitech presenter pairing utility It looks very similar to the one that I've got in my hand as well So it looks like they have actually thought about this being available for the Mac because they've got the very same one in the logo And we'll click on continue. I still don't know why it doesn't say Mac compatible on the website I can't get to the bottom of it. Now. Here we go compatible receiver not found now. Why is that? Oops it easy Come to that one Never mind. So it says compatible receiver not found So let me just come down to my top-down shot and I'll show you a couple of hardware setup steps that we need to take So if I just come out of this for a moment, I'm going to my top-down shot Here I am with my little Logitech receiver So there are a couple of things that I need to do first of all I need to take the Bluetooth receiver out from the bottom and I need to plug that into a USB socket now I still have a very old school wired Extended keyboard from Apple and it's got these handy little USB sockets in the side So if I just pop that in there now I've got my Bluetooth receiver set in and then obviously batteries in and then there's a little power switch on the side Sorry if this is very obvious. I'm just going through all of the steps just in case because sometimes It's the the simple things that get overlooked, isn't it? So That is now plugged on and it's plugged plugged on it's plugged in and it's switched on so now if I go back to my screen sharing Over here and I click on compatible receiver not found right. Well, let me try again Let's so turn at the device off again. I'm back on so I'm going to in fact I've got another little screen that I could probably share with you here in a second I'll do that one after and never mind. I'm thinking out loud here So I'm just literally going to switch it off and then I'm going to switch it on again and There we go. It's just being found So then I it says my device has now been connected. So if I click close that is the setup process now There is something that might be an issue that hasn't cropped up during this process And that's because I do also use a Logitech MX master mouse So I do also have Logitech software on my computer and have done for ages I've been using the Logitech MX series since version one 10 years ago. I forget how long ago it was these by the way are the in my mind the best mice in the World of mice. I'll leave a link to this one in the description as well. It's yet. They're just they're just absolutely a great So what I wanted to just mention though was sometimes when you install software You have to give the software access to your computer's security and privacy settings now if This needed access to that and it didn't already have that access then it would prompt you to do so in here But I'm just going to assume That it hasn't and I'll show you where you might want to check So we're going to come into security and privacy Now there are various different areas of this particular thing this particular thing that's not the correct term it is this particular section of the system preferences window and So you're going to want to just have a look through here And in fact, I'll just do this right now because I can show you the areas that you might want to check in fact Let me just quickly come back to my safari window wherever it happens to be over here So this actually tells us so I'll run you through this web page And then we can go back and check So this is a link to obviously all of these Logitech pages that I've linked to including the download page the page about the Presenter and this page as well. They'll all be in the description But it tells you here that Logitech presentation permission prompts on Mac OS big sir Now, I actually think that this is a actual piece of Logitech presentation Software may be slightly different to what we're looking at but still it tells you all of these different areas that Logitech might want Access to in your computer bear in mind as well that all this is doing is sending keystrokes to your Mac So it is simulating the the forward and backwards I believe is either the up and down or page up and page down button and then you've got this one to exit the thing the The presentation is the escape key. So that's all it is doing It's really just simulating these keystrokes in your computer So some things that you may need to grant it permission to is such as this access accessibility Input monitoring so input monitoring has got to be looking for these keystrokes So you can see that it tells you in here these different sections of that Security and once it called again It was called where is my system preferences. There we go. It was called security and privacy. That's the word privacy So it's telling you here all the different sections that it may need access to as I say If it doesn't already have access to these at the time that you do the install It will prompt you to do this But it may be because I've already got my as I say my mx master mouse Installed then logitech already has access to those areas with the other software that I've got from them But if we come down here to so things like accessibility Then somewhere in here. We should see Logitech I guess there it is. So so this is the other software from logitech actually logi options Which is where you can program your mouse or any other logitech devices You've got if you've got a logitech wireless keyboard and that that's all done through there as well The old way that it did it was with the old mx master mouses or mice Mouses you had a separate little dongle a bit like we've got with the presenter actually and that used to be called the logitech Unifying receiver and so you'd plug one of those in and you just need one of those plugged into a USB And then you could link any number of different mice or Keyboards and things like that. So that actually is the sort of legacy software the logitech unifying software Whereas this one logi options is the sort of replacement for that and actually now it's just all done over Bluetooth You don't need any dongles with your logitech keyboards and mice and things like that So that is one place where it may be requesting access to the other one is input monitoring So as I say so here we have got a logitech control center. So that is another logitech Process that is requesting access to our system So that is somewhere else that it may prompt you when you install it to to go in and check that So it's just worth checking if anything has appeared in there and what you'll notice is there are some things Where there's no check mark and often when you install a piece of software It sort of installs itself in there, but it's not actually checked So if I come and change these you'll have to unlock your system preferences So we'll click on that and I'll type in my handy password To allow access and now we can actually edit these settings So there are some things that are requesting access to my system But they haven't been granted access and it may be that when you install the software You'll have something in here by logitech and you'll just go through and notice that it isn't actually checked so just do go and double check anything from logitech or Logi L O G I if that's the correct pronunciation and anything with a logitech in it Then just make sure that those are checked and they have access They are just requesting access to things that they need to function possibly properly So the Bluetooth they shouldn't have anything in there I don't think for this one because you are plugging in your own. It's its own sort of dongle Whereas obviously this one is for my mouse, which is just working purely over the Bluetooth So that's why it does require access to that So if it is if you've downloaded the software You've got the dongle plugged in and it switched on and you've gone through the process of installing that presenter software And it's still not working then come and check in here But apart from that if I just come and give you a quick demonstration of how it should actually work What I've done is I've in fact, let me just quickly show you what I've done because it might Might be a benefit of I'm going to do a video about how to get presentations into keynote into sorry into e-cam live But what I'm going to show you is just how I'm doing this with keynote so that you can see how the presenter works because there is Another thing that might be causing an issue. I think So I've just want to cover that as well. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go into my demo mode and I haven't actually adjusted my screen resolution. This is a 4k monitor You see so normally I'll make it 1080p so that it doesn't show up so big on the screen So I hope you can still see that I'm going to come out of my that view Right so here I have got a Excuse me a keynote presentation just a little sample presentation to show you the point and Now the way that I do presentations is if I'm doing them on my Mac if I'm doing them on an external Mac then that's actually better because it's not taking up my processor and So you can have it coming in through a Elgato cam link or something like that So it just shows up as another camera source But if I'm doing it on the Mac then while there's a couple of options You can actually export it to a PDF and just bring the PDF into your e-cam live But for the purposes of this I'm going to show you it running on the Mac with in presenter mode now if you don't have a Secondary monitor then usually in the default settings of Keynote The option that you have up here play is going to play it as a full-screen presentation But there is actually another option that some people don't realize Which is in the play menu at the top you can also say play slideshow in window And I've actually added that to the toolbar so in case you weren't aware with Mac applications You can usually right-click on the top bar and go to customize toolbar And you'll see all the different options that you have available To put in the toolbar. Excuse me. I've obviously been talking too long. So sorry about that And here you can just see all the different options that you have available So you can just add those in you can see how they're all sort of jiggling about a little bit at the moment So somewhere in there there is the play in window. I'm just trying to find it in this sea of icons So there it is. It's this one play in window Looks like a slideshow icon with a little play button, but just with two windows funnily enough So if I come out of here and I click play in window and what that's going to do is it's giving me this full-screen window with my presentation and It should also give me somewhere a little preview as well so that is in the window if it's not showing already Big fun. I need to be in clicking there. I think this is normally on by default. But anyway, I'll just find it window view Quite going. There we go. It's in play So play slideshow in window, but you can also show presenter display in window as well So this is the one that is going to show you the slides that we are on and then also the upcoming slide So it's kind of good to have that up if you want to just See what slides are coming up. So sometimes if I am doing presentations and I've got this on one screen Then I might have this just sort of up above my camera below my camera, which is right there So I've got that there. So it just means that I can see what is coming up next So that's the kind of presenter view and you can have that window in window Now what we're going to do is we're going to get this presentation into e-cam So because it's just windowed like this, you can actually just move it out of the way Because we don't need to see it We just need to access it and the way that we're accessing it or getting it into e-cam is I'm using NDI scan converter so I did a video all about NDI scan converter, but What this does is it allows us to grab any window and Incidentally, the good thing about this is when it's in presentation mode in keynote in window Then it is still the same aspect ratio. It's the right aspect ratio that what we want to fit in our presentation So now I can come down here to keynote and then I can grab that window So that is the window we want and now as if by magic if I come over to my little scene I set up my presentation demo, which is this one. You can see I've got my slides in the background I've put my little border overlay around it I'm not going to go into how I've done all of that because I've got plenty of videos about overlays and things like that I've got my little view up here in the top corner In fact, let me come out of demo mode to show you now because this is the whole point of this scene at the end of the day So now you can see whoops a daisy. I don't want to move that I meant to grab the window then but I inadvertently just Move things out of the way instead. There we go so I've got my little window at the top for my little face or big face Which ever way you look at it and then I've got my top-down shot so that I can show you my clicker How about that and then I've got my slides in the background now if I have clicked in ecamm live and then I Whoops a daisy. It's actually clicking through the scenes So that was a placeholder that I had for a previous live stream so if I've selected ecamm live and by that what I mean is Ecamm live is the active application in the top corner here You can see in the very top corner somewhere ecamm live then this remote is going to work for that similarly if I had gone into my Audio hijack application then this would be you controlling that because bear in mind This is actually at the end of the day just keystrokes So it would be pressing the up and down arrows in that particular application So what we need to do is when you are doing a presentation like this You do need to make sure that actually your keynote is the application active application So I've just clicked into my keynote and now my little clicker will scroll through this demo presentation I just grabbed a sample of a off keynote and now as I press the forward and backwards arrows They go forwards and backwards through the slides and so That is in a nutshell how to set up the R400 and it's the same story for the R800 as well that also will work with the Mac So I hope that if you have been experiencing difficulties getting the R400 set up or if you have been to the logic Logitech site and seen that it is not Listed as compatible. I'm hoping that that helps But please if you have gone through all of these all of these steps and it's still not working I'm still having an issue then let me know because I've done a bit more research into this obviously since getting the comment I was quite I was quite worried after I got the comment that maybe there was something changed in it and it would become incompatible since the version I bought but this is the same model number and So it does seem that it is indeed still working and yeah, if you have found this useful Or as I say if you're having any issues it still then please do do get in touch leave a comment down in the Comments box below and if you found it useful then please like and don't forget to subscribe to the channel while you're there and Also turn on notifications So that you get alerted when I make any new videos That's all for this video But don't go anywhere because there are some more great videos coming up at the end and look at that my overlays in completely They're on place. 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