Display Apple AirPods battery levels via Terminal

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Update: New output icon glyph

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You can find information on my terminal configuration here

airpods.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Airpods.sh
# Output connected Airpods battery levels via CLI

AIRPOD_ICON=$'\uF7CC'

BATTERY_INFO=(
  "BatteryPercentCombined" 
  "HeadsetBattery" 
  "BatteryPercentSingle" 
  "BatteryPercentCase" 
  "BatteryPercentLeft" 
  "BatteryPercentRight"
)

BT_DEFAULTS=$(defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth)
SYS_PROFILE=$(system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType 2>/dev/null)
MAC_ADDR=$(grep -b2 "Minor Type: Headphones"<<<"${SYS_PROFILE}"|awk '/Address/{print $3}')
CONNECTED=$(grep -ia6 "${MAC_ADDR}"<<<"${SYS_PROFILE}"|awk '/Connected: Yes/{print 1}')
BT_DATA=$(grep -ia6 '"'"${MAC_ADDR}"'"'<<<"${BT_DEFAULTS}")

if [[ "${CONNECTED}" ]]; then
  for info in "${BATTERY_INFO[@]}"; do
    declare -x "${info}"="$(awk -v pat="${info}" '$0~pat{gsub (";",""); print $3 }'<<<"${BT_DATA}")"
    [[ ! -z "${!info}" ]] && OUTPUT="${OUTPUT} $(awk '/BatteryPercent/{print substr($0,15)": "}'<<<"${info}")${!info}%"
  done
   printf "%s\\n" "${AIRPOD_ICON} ${OUTPUT}"
else
  printf "%s Not Connected\\n" "${OUTPUT}"
fi

exit 0

Nice! This is the only script I've found that pulls info from AirPods. I'm using it in conjunction with BitBar to display the data on the menu bar.

Nice! This is the only script I've found that pulls info from AirPods. I'm using it in conjunction with BitBar to display the data on the menu bar.

Nice! Happy to see you found use! Definitely share that bitbar file if you wouldn’t mind.

Of course! https://github.com/jajajaime/bitbar-plugins/blob/master/airpods.1m.sh
I removed a couple elements to suit my needs, and removed the else as I don't want anything showing when not connected.
If there was an actual AirPods emoji I would use that, but so is life.

This script is great! And shows me some advanced shell-fu.

Though there's an issue with it when you have multiple pairs of Headphone/AirPods that were at one point paired to your system.

For me, this line returns multiple mac addresses, all of ones previously connected along with the actually connected one:

MAC_ADDR=$(grep -b2 "Minor Type: Headphones"<<<"${SYS_PROFILE}"|awk '/Address/{print $3}')

That means that later when $(awk -v pat="${info}" '$0~pat{gsub (";",""); print $3 }'<<<"${BT_DATA}") is called, it somehow fetches old battery data for every pair of old headphones. And my output ends up looking like this. Only one of those battery values matches my currently in-use airpods, the rest must be old cached battery values...?

My hacky fixes is just to limit the mac_addr fetch to the specific pair of airpods I actually use like this:

MAC_ADDR=$(grep -b2 "Minor Type: Headphones"<<<"${SYS_PROFILE}"|awk '/Address/{print $3}' | grep "<my airpods mac address>")

(I easily lookup the mac address for my airpods using the amazing BluetoothConnector util.)

Instead of my hacky one-off solution, here's a more generalized solution. Though I'm sure there's a more elegant terser way of doing it.

Just replace the CONNECTED=$(...) line with this:

CONNECTED=""
for m in ${MAC_ADDR} ; do 
  grep -ia6 "${m}"<<<"${SYS_PROFILE}"|awk '/Connected: Yes/{print 1}' | grep 1 && MAC_ADDR="$m" && CONNECTED=1 && break ;
done

That just checks if each mac address is connected, and when it finds a connected one, redefines MAC_ADDR to just the value of the connected pair.

Edit: Put this in a fork available here: https://gist.github.com/varenc/6300183cc2be8a4d4a1dd941eb2f5766

Running the script returns "Not connected", although my Airpods Max are connected. Is this no longer working?

Running the script returns "Not connected", although my Airpods Max are connected. Is this no longer working?

Same problem with AirPods 2