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#SCAN FOR BLUETOOTH MAC FOR MAC OS#

List devices that are in range of Bluetooth device in SwiftĮdit 2017/10: Found an updated SO answer for Swift 3 & 4.0: Nearby Bluetooth devices using Swift 3. I can write a script that stores the state in a file to read later, but it only works for one device at a time.Įdit 2017/01: Found this SO answer with details on finding nearby devices in Swift: The Proximity App from this forum post: Doesn't have a command line interface, so I cant query it remotely.Using dtrace to see how Bluetooth Explorer.app computes the list: difficult last resort.It scans for advertising peripherals, provides a interface to browse a connected.

#SCAN FOR BLUETOOTH MAC FOR MAC OS#

Using AppleScript to read it out the Bluetooth Explorer.app GUI Bluetility is a general-purpose Bluetooth Low-Energy utility for Mac OS X.

This Objective-C code Create a Terminal-Based Bluetooth Monitor in XCode?: I get several errors when compiling so it's hard to test it.

blueutil ( brew install blueutil): only prints power state, not device names.

blued: prints a list of mac addresses but they don't seem to change when devices go in or out of range or connect, and they aren't matched up to hostnames.

I would be happy with a macOS Swift code example, AppleScript example, bash example, or pointers to good docs. I have had difficulty finding anything at all so my requirements are low right now - something that shows signal strength and mac address would be a good start. I would like for this application to work on mac osx.

I've done a fair bit of Googling, and the only things I seem to be able to find are iOS swift code examples. I am trying to find a bluetooth packet sniffer to capture bluetooth signals from close by devices.

My use-case is detecting whether my Bluetooth headphones or iPhone are in range of my Mac, to trigger security setting changes (e.g. I need a command that performs an active scan so I can poll to see if my device is nearby, not one that lists previously paired devices. I want to list all in-range Bluetooth devices, ideally with hostnames, but MAC addresses would be sufficient.