Auto connect Bluetooth on startup. Automator?

[mongobongo]

Hey everyone!

Bit of help needed. I have a Bluetooth amplifier that does not auto connect. Every time I restart my Mac i have to manually connect from System Preferences or the Bluetooth icon. Is there a way to automate this? Perhaps through Automator and saving the action as an application and adding it as a login item?

 

[mongobongo]

Bump

 

[Brookzy]

This might work...

Run in terminal:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist DontPageAudioDevices 0

Restart your Mac.

 

[mongobongo]

This might work...

Run in terminal:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist DontPageAudioDevices 0

Restart your Mac.

I think that's the default value and I auto connect to all my other BT devices but my amplifier doesn't support auto connect.

 

[Brookzy]

Hmm... a possible, albeit inelegant, solution, would be to use the Automator 'watch me' feature and connect to your amplifier by clicking on it via the Bluetooth menu bar icon.

 

[mongobongo]

I just played around with it for a while. It worked at first but wouldn't run properly at startup. And like you say not an ideal solution. When the workflow runs you can see it moving the cursor around. This would happen even if I startup my mac in a different location where the amp is not in range.

 

[Brookzy]

You could figure out a terminal command to connect to your amp (https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...elect-the-bluetooth-device-using-command-line) and then have an Automator script to run that terminal command at startup.

 

[mongobongo]

You could figure out a terminal command to connect to your amp (https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...elect-the-bluetooth-device-using-command-line) and then have an Automator script to run that terminal command at startup.

Ok, so I had a chance to look into it and I think you're on to something! The only problems is that the blued commands are not working. I get a "command not found error" but I have managed to figure out the address for my BT amplifier. If I can figure out the correct command to also connect to it, then it should be easy to make a workflow or a script that executes it. Any ideas?

 

[Brookzy]

Ok, so I had a chance to look into it and I think you're on to something! The only problems is that the blued commands are not working. I get a "command not found error" but I have managed to figure out the address for my BT amplifier. If I can figure out the correct command to also connect to it, then it should be easy to make a workflow or a script that executes it. Any ideas?

I came across this, which could possibly help? https://stackoverflow.com/questions...ooth-device-iphone-via-command-line-on-macosx