Getting the battery level of a Bluetooth headset on Mac OSX

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Maxime Willinger picture Maxime Willinger · Sep 4, 2015 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

I would like to know if it is possible to get the battery level of a connected Bluetooth device (for example, a headset) on Mac OSX.

I'm looking for a command line or a library that would offer this possibility.

Thanks.

Answer

Statham picture Statham · Apr 25, 2020

There is no easy way to get this information without special application.

There is an app especially designed for this only purpose - called AKKU.

It worked with Bose and Sony's headphones (checked)

https://github.com/jariz/Akku/

Remember to download version 0.1.0-beta.10.

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The app works after restart.

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