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fedefat

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Registered: 2026-07-01

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network usage: chosen card not selected

I use a USB Wi‑Fi adapter on my mini PC. When I select “network usage” under Events, I end up with a huge list of network devices to choose from, and five of them refer to the USB Wi‑Fi adapter. But no matter which one I pick and confirm, it always switches to “Microsoft Wi‑Fi Direct Virtual Adapter #6”. Basically, I can’t manage to set a damn rule on network usage.
Is there a way to fix this?
Thank you.


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Last edited by fedefat (2026-07-02 13:36)

den4b

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Re: network usage: chosen card not selected

Shutter uses the device MAC address to uniquely identify a network interface.

It might be the case that your device's MAC address is not static, i.e. changes dynamically.

Let's do some troubleshooting:

1. Configure a Network Usage event.
2. Save it as a preset, e.g. "Test".
3. Open the preset file with a Notepad.
4. Identify the configured MAC address in the event configuration.

You should find something like this:

[Event1]
ID=NetworkUsage
Config=INTERFACE=00-00-00-00-00-00;...

Where "00-00-00-00-00-00" is a placeholder for your device's MAC address.

You can also use command prompt to list all network devices and their MAC address (also known as "Physical Address"):

ipconfig /all

Experiment. Check if the MAC address changes.

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fedefat

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Registered: 2026-07-01

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Re: network usage: chosen card not selected

Thank you for your reply.
I ran two tests. The first one is the one you described. In the other one, I edited my current profile config file and inserted the MAC address of the Wi‑Fi adapter.
In both cases, the result doesn’t change: the MAC address always stays the same, even if the device is always displayed as "Microsoft Wi‑Fi Direct Virtual Adapter #6". But the traffic on that adapter always shows zero. Why that happens, I really can’t say.

Last edited by fedefat (Yesterday 14:49)