News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A dock that wakes up reliably. Parent comment

Re:A dock that wakes up reliably by TrainedMonkey on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:30PM (#48877474)
The author does not call it out, but I think the point is that it's not only the dock. I've been struggling with MBP wakeup issues for a while. We have a whole zoo of various apple devices attached to a number of docks. All of the monitors are Odyssey Neo G9. TL:DR an issue with MBP port, MBP to Dock link, Dock, Dock to Monitor link, or the monitor itself could cause the unplugging dance.

In addition, it takes some time for Apple to squash bugs after releasing new hardware or software. M5s used to be unreliable with Anker TB4 until 1-2 months ago.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A dock that wakes up reliably by bombcar on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:37PM (#48877514)
Us old people have the idea of peripherals as input (keyboard, mouse) or output (monitor, printer) - but they've all been input/output for two decades or more; and Thunderbolt and friends are much more like an Ethernet network (reliability of Wake on LAN, anyone?) than they are simple point-to-point connections.

Meaning - anything could be the device preventing what you expect to happen, even if it looks like it should be impossible and have nothing to do with it.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A dock that wakes up reliably by shermantanktop on Saturday July 11, 2026 @11:55PM (#48878111)
HDMI CEC is the bane of my (home theater) existence.

Which device just woke every other device up at 4am?

Which device just shut everything down while I was in the middle of a movie?

And are they the same device?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A dock that wakes up reliably by bombcar on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:46AM (#48879201)
CEC and eARC piss me off to no end - it was all working perfectly for over a year and now the receiver refuses to cooperate (or maybe it's the TV, who knows) and you have to cycle things by hand like a meanderthal.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A dock that wakes up reliably by pronoiac on Sunday July 12, 2026 @04:25AM (#48879379)
A Raspberry Pi can help debug and fix HDMI CEC flakiness, with the right cable - https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A dock that wakes up reliably by ramijames on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:29AM (#48881073)
I struggled with a dock and a MBP and connecting consistently to a monitor. It was a high-quality USB-C to HDMI cable. I was sure it wasn't that.

Turns out it was that.

[ Parent | on HN ]