ROronyfadel·May 4, 2021
Check this: https://github.com/Denton-L/based-connect/
In Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubarDenton-L
based-connect
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Denton-L / based-connect
based-connect
A reverse-engineered Bose Connect imitation program for Linux.
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A reverse-engineered Bose Connect imitation program for Linux.
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I really love my Bose headphones and in the past year I've used them almost exclusively on my Mac. Started running into problems where because I didn't have visibility on the…
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4 sourcesHe mentioned Denton Liu in a tweet, who made this: https://github.com/Denton-L/based-connect
In Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubarFor those on Linux; I had great success with the “based-connect” program, which enables me to configure “known devices” (which one is primary and so on) and, crucially, configure noise cancelling.
https://github.com/Denton-L/based-connect
In Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubarI really love my Bose headphones and in the past year I've used them almost exclusively on my Mac.
Started running into problems where because I didn't have visibility on the battery level they would die on me during focused work or meetings
I know there's some way to get the voice assistant to tell me the battery level but that's not as useful as being able to glance in the top-right hand corner and having to move from my keyboard to press some buttons I can't see on my head is a bit silly?
So thanks to this repo (https://github.com/Denton-L/based-connect) and the ability to dump Bluetooth logs from Android to Wireshark I was able to figure out how the official Bose app communicates to the headphones not just to get information but also to send commands such as Connecting/Disconnecting paired devices, changing the noise canceling level a
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It wasn't all easy, there's not great support for Bluetooth in the JS world and I wanted it to be cross-platform one day so Swift was off the table but it turns out to use the SPP protocol on Macos you have to go through the IOBluetooth APIs - Thanks to Pyobjc I was able to call the native Objective-C api's from Python and thanks to Pybluez I was able to use an interface that was a complete replica of Python's built-in sockets
Would to head some feedback