wngrtn / rofi-bluetooth-script

Wrap bluetoothctl to manage your bluetooth connections with rofi

Description

Rofi is extensible via scripts. rofi-bluetooth-script is such a script and allows you to manage your bluetooth connections with rofi.

Requirements

This project is a thin python wrapper around bluetoothctl from the Bluez project and those two are the only requirements:

• python3
• bluetoothctl

Void Linux

xi python bluez

Installation

1. Place script in ~/.config/rofi/scripts
2. Add rofi-bluetooth to modes variable in rofi config
3. Optionally, add something like display-rofi-bluetooth: "  "; to rofi config if you use a nerd font

Implementation Details

Rofi stays responsive after putting the bluetooth adapter into the "Discovering" state to scan for new devices. This is achieved by forking off a timeout 30s bluetoothctl scan on using python's Popen(..., shell=True) and bash's coproc().

Credit

Inspired by nickclyde's rofi-bluetooth, which is a standalone script that calls rofi in dmenu-mode. It gets the job done at least as well as this script, but I couldn't find a way to combine it with other modes in one rofi window.