Alfred Bluetooth Workflow

Alfred 3 workflow to quickly connect / disconnect Bluetooth devices.

Installation

Simply download the latest Bluetooth Connector.alfredworkflow release and double-click to import into Alfred.

Note regarding macOS 14 (Sonoma): Starting with Sonoma, it is necessary to give Alfred bluetooth access. It can be done by navigating to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Bluetooth and adding Alfred to the list of apps by clicking the plus icon and choosing Alfred.

Note regarding macOS 10.15 (Catalina): Since MacOS 10.15, Notarization is required for apps. As this workflow and its distributed binaries are not notarized, please try the following workaround:

Install an old version of the workflow
Update via blt workflow:update

See #9 for more information and other possible workarounds.

Features

Connect / disconnect to any known Bluetooth device by typing blt {device}
- Optionally filter devices by name
- Already connected devices are highlighted with a green icon
Toggle Bluetooth on or off via blt-on, blt-off or simply blt-toggle
Restart Bluetooth via blt-restart
Workflow updates via blt workflow:update (Thanks to @trietsch)
Desktop notifications for all commands and their results
- Failed commands can be retried by simply clicking on the notification

Attribution

trietsch/alfred-bluetooth-connector by Robin Trietsch was used as an inspiration for this workflow implementation.
toy/blueutil is used to easily connect/disconnect a Bluetooth device by its MAC address and toggle Bluetooth on/off. It was originally developed by Frederik Seiffert and is now being continued by Ivan Kuchin.
julienXX/terminal-notifier is used to show a notification of the result for each command.
deanishe/alfred-workflow is used to check for new workflow updates. Many thanks to NorthIsUp/alfred-workflow-py3 and tomy0000000/alfred-workflow-py3 for providing a Python 3 compatible version.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018 - 2022 Tilman Ginzel, Robin Trietsch

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