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

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