AppleScript Bluetooth on/off

FYI, it seems like the button moved to number three in Sierra:

tell application "System Preferences"

reveal pane id "com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth"

-- activate -- optional, just if you want to display the window

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"

clickcheckbox "On" of window 1

end tell

quit

end tell

Message was edited by: Pierre L. (“activate” commented out and “quit” added)

My pleasure.

command-line utility blueutil

-- put "blueutil" in ressources folder of this script saved as Script-Bundle or Application

set blueutilpath to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to resource "blueutil"))

-- or start with this line if "blueutil" installed:

-- set blueutilpath to "usr/local/bin/blueutil"

set sb to last word of (do shell script blueutilpath & " status")

if sb is "on" then

do shell scriptblueutilpath & " off"

else

do shell scriptblueutilpath & " on"

end if

Spazek

Can anyone offer an update to this for Mavericks? The System Preferences interface is different so this no longer works.

Thanks for the script. Here are some adjustments for Mountain Lion:

tell application "System Preferences"

reveal pane id "com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth"

--activate -- optional, just if you want to display the window

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"

clickcheckbox 2 of window 1

-- checkbox 1: show in menu bar

-- checkbox 2: enabled

-- checkbox 3: detectable

end tell

quit

end tell

The following script seems to work flawlessly under OS X Mavericks:

tell application "System Preferences"

--activate

setthecurrent panetopaneid "com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth"

tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"

click button 6 of window "Bluetooth"

endtell

quit

end tell

Message was edited by: Pierre L. (“activate” commented out)

Thanks, that almost works. The only problem is that it will turn bluetooth back on if it is disabled. How would you insert a 'check' that says: 'if it's on, turn it off, but if it's off, leave it off'?

willthefirst wrote:

Thanks, that almost works. The only problem is that it will turn bluetooth back on if it is disabled. How would you insert a 'check' that says: 'if it's on, turn it off, but if it's off, leave it off'?

You are absolutely right when you say that the script “will turn Bluetooth back on if it is disabled”. But you are absolutely wrong when you say that it almost works. Actually, the script works perfectly well, since it does exactly what the OP asked for (“Just looking for a way to toggle Bluetooth on and off using a single AppleScript.”) and you were just asking for “an update to this for Mavericks”.

Here's the script you are asking for:

tell application "System Preferences"

set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preferences.Bluetooth"

tell application "System Events"

tell process "System Preferences"

tell window "Bluetooth"

tell button 6

if name is "Turn Bluetooth Off" then click

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

quit

end tell

Merci Pierre!

You're welcome.

I get an error that says "AppleScript Error - System Events got an error: AppleScript Editor is not allowed assistive access."

How can I fix this?

Have a look at Accessibility Preferences and GUI Scripting.