bluetooth
Getting the battery level of a Bluetooth headset on Mac OSX
There is no easy way to get this information without special application. There is an app especially designed for this only purpose – called AKKU. It worked with Bose and Sony’s headphones (checked) https://github.com/jariz/Akku/ Remember to download version 0.1.0-beta.10. The app works after restart.
Bluetooth APIs in Windows/.Net?
One problem with Bluetooth on the PC is that there are several BT stacks in use and you can never quite know which one is available on a given machine. The most common ones are Widcomm (now Broadcom) and Microsoft (appeared in XP, maybe one of the service packs). However, some BT hardware vendors package … Read more
Setting up Bluetooth automatic pairing on Linux [closed]
If anyone happens upon this question, to use (much of) the BlueZ “BT Management Sockets” C API directly from bash, try: btmgmt –help btmgmt add-device, btmgmt find, btmgmt discov, etc.
Bluetooth blocked through rfkill [closed]
I currently have this problem in Mint 19.3 (kernel 5.4.0-48-generic) on an X1 Carbon ThinkPad. My rfkill showed Bluetooth as Hard blocked. No idea why the following is necessary, but it worked for me: sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth I’ve had to do it twice in the last two weeks, which suggests something random is happening … Read more