I was looking for a button to connect to a bluetooth headphone (or any other bluetooth device), which would change color when it was connected, but I could not find it so far.
So I hacked something together based on the work on AirPods of Duck before.
Basically it is a shell script that will return a value when a device with a certain MAC address is connected, changing the button color. Pressing the button connects/disconnects to the device.
Not connected:
Connected:
Instructions:
In the shell script, change “devicemacaddres” to the MAC address of your bluetooth device (opt+click on the bluetooth icon in your status bar to see it).
This line:
MAC_ADDR=devicemacaddress
In the applescript, replace device name with the name of your bluetooth device.
This line:
tell ( menu item “devicename” of menu 1)
Code is below:
[
{
"BTTWidgetName" : "Connect to bluetooth device",
"BTTTriggerType" : 639,
"BTTTriggerTypeDescription" : "Apple Script Widget",
"BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchBar",
"BTTPredefinedActionType" : 195,
"BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Run Apple Script (async in background)",
"BTTInlineAppleScript" : "activate application \"SystemUIServer\"\rtell application \"System Events\"\r\ttell process \"SystemUIServer\"\r\t\tset btMenu to (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 whose description contains \"bluetooth\")\r\t\ttell btMenu\r\t\t\tclick\r\t\t\ttell (menu item \"yourdevice\" of menu 1)\r\t\t\t\tclick\r\t\t\t\tif exists menu item \"Connect\" of menu 1 then\r\t\t\t\t\tclick menu item \"Connect\" of menu 1\r\t\t\t\t\treturn\r\t\t\t\telse\r\t\t\t\t\tclick menu item \"Disconnect\" of menu 1\r\t\t\t\tend if\r\t\t\tend tell\r\t\tend tell\r\tend tell\rend tell",
"BTTEnabled2" : 1,
"BTTUUID" : "86953DB3-82B2-4BD1-B533-02D135C80E5F",
"BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 0,
"BTTEnabled" : 1,
"BTTModifierMode" : 0,
"BTTOrder" : 5,
"BTTDisplayOrder" : 0,
"BTTMergeIntoTouchBarGroups" : 1,
"BTTIconData" : 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"BTTTriggerConfig" : {
"BTTTouchBarAppleScriptString" : "do shell script \"SYSTEM_PROFILER=$(system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType); MAC_ADDR=devicemacaddress; CONNECTED=$(grep -ia6 \\\"${MAC_ADDR}\\\"<<<\\\"${SYSTEM_PROFILER}\\\"|awk '\/Connected: Yes\/{print 1}'); if [[ \\\"${CONNECTED}\\\" ]]; then printf 1; else printf 0; fi\"",
"BTTTouchBarFreeSpaceAfterButton" : 5,
"BTTTouchBarOnlyShowIcon" : true,
"BTTTouchBarBringPlayerToFront" : 0,
"BTTTouchBarButtonColor" : "63.750000, 63.750000, 63.750000, 255.000000",
"BTTTouchBarApplyCornerRadiusTo" : 2,
"BTTTouchBarItemPlacement" : 1,
"BTTTouchBarAppleScriptStringRunOnInit" : false,
"BTTTouchBarFontColorAlternate" : "255.000000, 255.000000, 255.000000, 255.000000",
"BTTTouchBarEmojiHideBackButton" : false,
"BTTTouchBarHideWhenPaused" : 0,
"BTTTouchBarAlwaysShowButton" : false,
"BTTScriptType" : 0,
"BTTTouchBarButtonWidth" : 100,
"BTTTouchBarScriptUpdateInterval" : 2,
"BTTTouchBarItemIconHeight" : 22,
"BTTTouchBarBatteryHideOnCharging" : false,
"BTTTouchBarButtonTextAlignment" : 0,
"BTTTouchBarAlternateBackgroundColor" : "73.000003, 155.000006, 201.000003, 255.000000",
"BTTTouchBarAppleScriptUsePath" : 0,
"BTTTBWidgetWidth" : 400,
"BTTTouchBarDefaultPlayer" : 0,
"BTTTouchBarColorRegex" : "1",
"BTTTouchBarItemIconWidth" : 22,
"BTTTouchBarButtonName" : "Connect to bluetooth device",
"BTTTouchBarHideWhenNoPlayer" : false,
"BTTTouchBarFontColor" : "255.000000, 255.000000, 255.000000, 255.000000",
"BTTTouchBarButtonFontSize" : 15,
"BTTTouchBarHideCover" : 0,
"BTTTouchBarButtonCornerRadius" : 6,
"BTTTouchBarItemPadding" : -13
}
}
]