Leap Motion controller / MacOS Monterey - supported soon?

user-74227680 2022-09-05 19:53:04 UTC #22

So, gemini supports Qualcomm XR2 which is an Arm based part - why can't we get generic Arm linux driver support or M1 support? Clearly it runs on some variant of Arm.

user-129405838 2022-09-08 07:58:30 UTC #23

Hi Dan, just wanted to add my voice to the requests for info regarding the Monterey compliant drivers for Leap Motion.

eljf 2022-09-10 11:59:10 UTC #24

does anyone know if the workaround can be used for Monterey 12.5.1 ? I'm getting no joy from a new 3Di on a Mac Studio M1.

animato 2022-09-20 22:37:32 UTC #25

@CFord You are a saviour! It worked.

karmand 2022-10-13 02:28:25 UTC #26

Thank you thank you thank you - reporting LeapMotion working on Monterey - 12.5.1 and 12.6
The 'trick' above works.. but why?
AND... how the heck did you think of even trying something like that?
I reboot normally and it still works.

MacRack 2019 Intel - Monterey

I am only using it with Glover - for MIDI expression, but still it is too good to use it in Monterey and not have to boot backwards to BigSur just for recording hand motions (CC data)

Well, anyways, cheers, thanks for the tip!

amirpashamobini 2022-11-07 19:59:31 UTC #27

@CFord Thank you for the great instructions. Following your tutorial, I am able to get the device working for some minutes (sometimes even seconds). The device turns on after the restarts, but suddenly disconnects while the green light is still on.

Have you had any experiences on this?

Thank you so much in advance!

mattyo 2023-01-04 22:36:10 UTC #28

I'd just like to add my voice to those looking forward to updated Mac drivers. I'm a musician who has been using Leap Motion as my primary instrument since the hardware was in beta, and I'd love to see it keeping up-to-date on the Mac platform!

paradoxical3 2023-01-05 02:53:41 UTC #29

Came here just now discovering that the leap motion does not work in MacOS. This is a dealbreaker for this product for me - I need it to work with Logic for virtual music.

mattyo 2023-01-09 14:58:37 UTC #30

It works in Big Sur and earlier. I just had to revert my OS to keep mine going....

eranegozy 2023-01-30 16:57:16 UTC #31

While this trick of getting Leap Motion working on Monterey seems to work, I just tried on MacOS Ventura 13.0 (M2 Mac, though not sure if that matters), and unfortunately, it does not work - the toolbar icon never turns green after a reboot. Anyone else have this issue as well?

eranegozy 2023-02-07 16:37:47 UTC #32

For those still interested, I confirmed a good workaround, that one of my students found. Turns out the newer Mac OSs (like Monterey and Ventura) think the leap is a usb webcam, and a mac process grabs hold of the device, not allowing leapd to connect to it. That process is called UVCAssistant. You can find it if you grep for it:
ps -aex | grep UVCAssistant

You must kill this process to let leapd have a chance to connect to the leapmotion with:
sudo killall -9 UVCAssistant

There is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game here. As soon as you kill it, another will spawn. So you need to keep killing it quickly a few times in a row until you see the leap software connect (ie, icon in toolbar turns green).

I run the killall command and then up-arrow / return a few times quickly which seems to do the trick.

TheJSTeam 2023-02-08 00:50:55 UTC #33

Wow this works like a charm! Thank you so much!

mattyo 2023-02-12 17:02:33 UTC #34

@eranegozy: excellent find, but it's a pity that us MacOS users are driven to these kinds of workarounds (and presumably not getting whatever tracking advantages Gemini has) in order to keep working with the Leap.

So, hoping Mac support is still on the roadmap!