iromk / blueutil

CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, inquire devices, connect, info, …

blueutil

CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, inquire devices, connect, info, …

Usage

Usage:
  blueutil [options]

Without options outputs current state

    -p, --power               output power state as 1 or 0
    -p, --power STATE         set power state
    -d, --discoverable        output discoverable state as 1 or 0
    -d, --discoverable STATE  set discoverable state

        --favourites          list favourite devices
        --inquiry [T]         inquiry devices in range, 10 seconds duration by default excluding time for name updates
        --paired              list paired devices
        --recent [N]          list recent devices, 10 by default

        --info ADDR           show information about device with address
        --is-connected ADDR   device with address connected state as 1 or 0
        --connect ADDR        create a connection to device with address
        --disconnect ADDR     close the connection to device with address

    -h, --help                this help
    -v, --version             show version

STATE can be one of: 1, on, 0, off, toggle

Installation

blueutil is avaible trough the package manager homebrew:

brew install blueutil

to build it from source run:

git clone [e-mail]:toy/blueutil.git
cd blueutil
make

Notes

Uses private API from IOBluetooth framework (i.e. IOBluetoothPreference*()).

Opening Bluetooth preference pane always turns on discoverability if bluetooth power is on or if it is switched on when preference pane is open, this change of state is not reported by the function used by blueutil.

Originally written by Frederik Seiffert [e-mail] http://www.frederikseiffert.de/blueutil/ Further development by Ivan Kuchin https://github.com/toy/blueutil