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Yehp, went through all the troubleshooting steps except for the factory resetting (I know the camera works from my experience with it on Ubuntu).
One thing I've noticed is that the camera will appear occasionally, but the moment it tries to get accessed, it disappears. More precisely, a simple way to reproduce the situation I'm observing is as as follows:
- I start the device_manager.py from the utilities folder in depthai-python
- The camera shows up as one of the devices from the dropdown menu
- I hit the search button
- Not only does the camera not show up on the list, but it disconnects entirely from the system, i.e. the Network settings in MacOS shows it as "Not Connected".
- A little while later, the Network adapter dongle reappears connected to the laptop
Have you noticed problematic USB-C dongles being an issue across OSs or only particularly for MacOS? In this case, I'm using the same dongle when I'm booted into Ubuntu or Mac, and it works on the former but not on the latter.
- One potential difference between the OSs is that on Ubuntu you can explicitly set IPv4 to Link Local Only (which I've observed is preferable for the stability of the connection, otherwise Ubuntu occasionally will also fail to find the camera when set to) whereas on MacOS, that explicit option is only available for IPv6 but IPv4 you need to manually configure or use DHCP (and so to achieve the same you set the IP address in the 169.254 range + mask)