bluemoon

Enable or disable bluetooth on OS X based on your current location

I use bluetooth on my Mac at the office for my wireless keyboard and mouse. At home or at the coffee shop, however, I don't use bluetooth at all. So bluetooth is generally running, and:

• draining my battery
• interfering with my wireless connection

until I remember to turn it off. And then, of course, I have to turn it back on at the office.

Bluemoon will handle powering your MacBook's bluetooth connection based on your location.

I'm currently working on a homebrew recipe. Until then:

brew install blueutil
brew install sleepwatcher
brew install terminal-notifier
gem install bluemoon --no-wrappers

You'll probably want bluemoon bootup to run everytime you reboot:

crontab -e
@reboot bluemoon bootup

To be useful, you'll need to add at least one location you want Bluetooth enabled.

bluemoon add # current location

• Add IP address or router Mac address support
• Create a homebrew recipe
• Vendor get-location properly so it installs without the --no-wrappers flag
• Create a homebrew recipe so brew install bluemoon works

The get-location helper was created by @lindes. Thank you.

@jonahaaron proposed IP-address support.