Turn Bluetooth On and Off from Command Line on macOS

Discussion

1. Patrick K

   Thanks for sharing this! I was trying to find an easier way to toggle Bluetooth and I kept finding articles about AppleScript, but this is way easier for people familiar with the command line.
2. Ahmed Hossein

   Thank you! I just came across this and it was a life-saver.

   I created a small “bluetoggle.sh” to toggle the switch: ON if it was OFF, OFF if it was ON. I then used iCanHazShortcut to map the script to [^B] for ease of access.

   #!/bin/zsh
   
   if [ blueutil -p |grep 1 = "1" 2>/dev/null 2>/dev/null ]; then blueutil -p 0; else blueutil -p 1; fi
   
3. Ahmed Hossein

   The code above was messed up by the interpreter (symbol ` is not accepted it seems). I put here the final code of my 1-line bluetoggle.sh

   https://pastebin.com/YssdgD5Z
4. Ahmed Hossein

   This can be turned into a toggle command using:

   #!/bin/bash
   blueutil -p | grep 1 && blueutil -p 0 || blueutil -p 1
   
5. Sean Beeg

   Thanks for this. Bluetooth has been crashing on my mac every so often, so a quick brew install and 2 aliases and I’m in business.
6. Matt D

   Here is how I control my bluetooth from ZSH.

   bt () {
   	if [ -n $1 ]
   	then
   		echo $1
   		export btArg=$(echo $1 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') 
   		echo $btArg
   		case $btArg in
   			(on) echo "Turning on BlueTooth" >> /tmp/bt.log
   				blueutil --power 1 | tee /tmp/bt.log ;;
   			(off) echo "Turning off BlueTooth" >> /tmp/bt.log
   				blueutil --power 0 | tee /tmp/bt.log ;;
   			(stat*) echo "Checking BlueTooth state" >> /tmp/bt.log
   				export BT=$(blueutil -p | tee /tmp/bt.log) 
   				case $BT in
   					(0) echo "BlueTooth is powered off"
   						blueutil --connected ;;
   					(1) echo "BlueTooth is powered on"
   						blueutil --connected ;;
   					(*) echo "BlueTooth in unknown state"
   						blueutil --connected ;;
   				esac ;;
   			(*) echo -n "Unknown input" ;;
   		esac
   	else
   		echo -n "Need input"
   	fi
   }