Take over Mac OS X Bluetooth Control

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Bluetooth on Mac OS X

Quite annoying when Bluetooth on Mac OS X is off, you can’t turn it on manually via Systme Preferences interface. Now you can install blueutil from https://github.com/toy/blueutil to solve this issue.

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igloo:cheatsheets root# blueutil --help
blueutil v2.1.0

Usage:
  blueutil [options]

Without options outputs current state

    -p, --power               output power state as 1 or 0
    -p, --power STATE         set power state
    -d, --discoverable        output discoverable state as 1 or 0
    -d, --discoverable STATE  set discoverable state

    -h, --help                this help
    -v, --version             show version

STATE can be one of: 1, on, 0, off, toggle

Firstly, turn off Bluetooth service via command line:

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igloo:cheatsheets root# blueutil -p 0
igloo:cheatsheets root# blueutil -d 0

Then turn on Bluetooth service via command line:

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igloo:cheatsheets root# blueutil -d 1
igloo:cheatsheets root# blueutil -p 1

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