Turn on bluetooth via terminal/command line

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How can I turn on bluetooth via the terminal / the command line?

See http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/8343/is-it-possible-to-disconnect-a-bluetooth-connection-using-applescript — Matteo, Jan 05 '12 at 09:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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There is an answer over at Superuser. The last post there is what I found to work best, in a slightly different form. The 'checkbox "On"' did not work for me, but the following code did:

# This is only necessary, if AppleScripts are not yet allowed to change checkboxes
tell application "System Events" to set UI elements enabled to true
# Now change the bluetooth status
tell application "System Preferences"
    set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preferences.bluetooth"
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "System Preferences"
            # Enabled is checkbox number 2
            if value of checkbox 2 of window "Bluetooth" is 0 then
                click checkbox 2 of window "Bluetooth"
            end if
        end tell
    end tell
    quit
end tell

You can execute this script using osascript.

Update: I now changed the script to just enable Bluetooth. No toggling anymore.

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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answered Jan 05 '12 at 13:08

Arne

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Awesome. I have put this into a shell script and added osacript <<SCRIPT in front of it and at the end SCRIPT and it works fine! Thanks – topskip Jan 06 '12 at 11:39
Can you add at the bottom the old code to toggle? – Andrew Wonnacott Apr 03 '12 at 21:44
Andrew: just remove the if around the "click checkbox 2...". That should do the trick. – Arne Apr 03 '12 at 22:31

Turn on bluetooth via terminal/command line

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