Manpages - btmgmt.1

btmgmt - interactive bluetooth management tool

btmgmt [–options] [commands]

btmgmt(1) interactive bluetooth management tool. The tool issues commands to the Kernel using the Bluetooth Management socket, some commands may require net-admin capability in order to work since the Bluetooth Management interface is considered a low-level interface meant for the likes of bluetoothd(8), it is not recommended for applications to use it directly as it may result in unexpected behavior.

-i/–index

Specify adapter index

-m-/-monitor

Enable monitor output

-t/–timeout

Timeout in seconds for non-interactive mode

-v/–version

Display version

-i/–init-script

Init script file

-h/–help

Display help

main

See bluetoothctl-mgmt(1)

monitor

See bluetoothctl-monitor(1)

Two common ways to automate the tool are to pass the commands directly like in the follow example:

btmgmt <<EOF
list
show
EOF

Or create a script and pass it as init-script:

$ vi test-script.bt
list
show
quit
:wq
$ btmgmt --init-script=test-script

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Free use of this software is granted under ther terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licenses (LGPL).