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toy / blueutil

blueutil

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

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

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Observed mentions: 2020-06-10 01:19:56 UTC to 2025-11-05 06:39:48 UTC.

01232020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2025

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Show HN: BlueBoy, a macOS CLI for Bluetooth management

Bello! I built this to resolve the issues I had with blueutil[1], and publicize the results in the form of a library that anyone could interface with. It's certainly made my automation life easier! I wish bluetooth settings didn't feel so out of the way... There are some missing features, mainly related to setting internal bluetooth states, that are heavily restricted even in terms of private frameworks. If anyone is better at bridging Obj-C and swift than me, please submit a PR, file an issue, or shoot me an email with advice! In my adventures, I also revamped a BLE swift library, which anyone interested can access at https://github.com/philocalyst/BleuKit. I would call both of the libraries pre-release, but I will be devoting some time to both of them in the coming days/weeks to bring them up to the standards we expect from swift packag
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es, along with uploading them to a central location. [1] https://github.com/toy/blueutil
1 points · Open discussion
Zaloog·Jan 29, 2025Submission

Show HN: TUI Bluetooth Connector for Mac

Hi, since sometimes my AirPods didn't autoconnect to my Macbook and I didn't want my hands to leave the keyboard. I looked for alternative solutions to quickly connect devices. Found [blueutil] for MAC, but was not happy with writing long commands, so I build a pretty minimal inline TUI application on a beautiful saturday to: - display paired devices - pair/unpair devices - connect/disconnect devices - search devices Ive used [textual], a very nice framework to create TUIs with python. You can find the gh-repo here: https://github.com/Zaloog/blueutil-tui Direct use with uv via: `uvx --from blueutil-tui btui` [blueutil]: https://github.com/toy/blueutil [textual]: https://textual.textualize.io
3 points · Open discussion
It doesn't directly fix the disconnect/reconnect issue you're talking about, but I've found ToothFairy[1] super useful to mitigate the bulk of my MacOS bluetooth frustrations. A few different ways it's come in handy for me: - The Bluetooth speaker I use for music has a tendency to sporadically sound super hollow. Turns out it has a mic built in, and the voodoo of Mac's bluetooth stack would decide at random when it connected whether it would go into audio-only mode (and use the higher-bandwidth AAC codec) or go into audio+mic mode (splits the available bandwidth between the two and as a result uses a lower bitrate audio codec to compensate for the bandwidth drop). Used ToothFairy to always force that device into audio-only mode. - After the above discovery, tested doing the same with my actual headset, and leveraging the built-in mic for
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input. For call audio, it's pretty erratic on whether it'll have any impact at all, and depends heavily on the circumstances of the call itself. Sometimes the audio is massively better, but most of the time the audio is already degraded when it gets to my machine and the bluetooth improvement is moot. That said, makes music in between calls far more pleasant. - My bluetooth mouse is particularly susceptible to that consistent disconnect/reconnect issue you mentioned. ToothFairy can create a menubar icon for individual devices, which helps to act as a quick sanity check to see if my mouse has disconnected. ToothFairy can also run a shell script on disconnect, which has been handy. At this point I have it trigger a system notification[2] so I'm at least immediately made aware of it, check my idle time[3] in case it was the mouse going into sleep mode from inactivity, then conditionally leverage blueutil[4] to look for the device and reconnect if found (forcefully restarting the bluetooth stack in the process if it has issues). Doesn't fix whatever the root cause is for that consistent disconnect/reconnect issue, but this duct tape re-establishes a connection far more quickly when it happens, making the issue itself significantly less disruptive. I only stumbled on it via Setapp[1] and tried it on a whim, but it's definitely one of the more handy utility apps I've found and well worth the $5 App Store price for anyone that has similar bluetooth frustrations with their Mac. [1] https://c-command.com/toothfairy/ [2] https://code-maven.com/display-notification-from-the-mac-com... [3] https://stackoverflow.com/a/17966890 [4] https://github.com/toy/blueutil [5] https://setapp.com/apps/toothfairy
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