Starting up my Mac

[texasman821]

I have a 2018 MacBook Pro. Gonna try and explain this best I can. I have the laptop hooked up to external monitors and bluetooth keyboard/mouse. I had the laptop connected to a smart outlet. The OS before Monterey I could turn on the laptop by turning on the smart outlet and then type on my bluetooth keyboard and auto go to my monitors. So I kept my laptop off my desk for extra room. Now ill turn it on the same way with the smart outlet but I have type on my Mac keyboard for my password before it connects to anything bluetooth or my external monitors. Anyway to go back to the old way when bluetooth just connects when the laptop just turns on and auto connects to monitors. I hate Monterey cause of this. When I upgraded to the new OS nothing changed hardware wise. Hope someone gets what im saying or had a similar setup. Thanks for any help.

 

[chscag]

Did you implement FileVault when updating to Monterey? FileVault requires a password, there is no way around it.

 

[texasman821]

Did you implement FileVault when updating to Monterey? FileVault requires a password, there is no way around it.

I turned it off after like the second day. So no longer asks to log in like it did.

 

[yukari]

It depends on what keyboard you have.

I too use a bluetooth keyboard to start up using 2018 MBP with an external monitor. Only with Apple's bluetooth MagicKeyboard, I can log-on. I tried LogiTech (KB750), Matias and other bluetooth keyboards. None of these non-Apple keyboard work until you log in first using MBP's built-in keyboard.

I suspect it has something to do with either T2 chip or the Bluetooth firmware on the keyboards. My guess is T2 chip.