Restart the macOS Sidecar session being hosted by avconferenced

residecar.jxa.js

#!/usr/bin/env osascript -l JavaScript

const App = Application.currentApplication();
App.includeStandardAdditions = true;

const BINARY = '/usr/libexec/avconferenced';

function run(_) {
  const avconferenced = App.doShellScript(
    `ps -A | grep '${BINARY}' | awk '{print $1,$4}'`,
  )
    .split('\r')
    .map((process) => process.split(' '))
    .find(([_, exec]) => exec == BINARY);

  if (!avconferenced) {
    return;
  }

  App.doShellScript(`kill -9 ${avconferenced[0]}`);
}

Sidecar keeps freezing-up on my Mac, and I'm tired of having to physically disconnect/reconnect my iPad to fix it.

This JXA script locates the ongoing avconferenced process and kills it. macOS will automatically reboot the connection shortly thereafter.

I miss Monterrey. Ventura killed sidecar for me.