The Apple Display That Only Speaks Thunderbolt
Late in the day I plugged a Raspberry Pi 5 into the Apple Studio Display using a micro-HDMI to USB-C cable and got nothing. No splash screen, no error, just a monitor that didn’t react. After some debugging I found the reason: the Studio Display only accepts Thunderbolt 3 video input. It cannot receive HDMI. The USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter - the one Apple sells for connecting Macs to HDMI TVs - is a one-way converter. It sends Mac video OUT to HDMI devices. There is no path from a Raspberry Pi’s micro-HDMI output to a Studio Display input. The solution, I thought, was going headless - SSH from the Mac on the same network. But the Pi I bought had all the ports locked down in the configuration, so SSH wasn’t an option either. Amazon is bringing me a 7 Inch IPS LCD Touch Screen Raspberry Pi Monitor Display tomorrow morning. ...