yosemite-bluetooth-fix.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Install sleepwatcher
cd /tmp
curl -O http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/sleepwatcher_2.2.tgz
tar -zxvf sleepwatcher_2.2.tgz
cd sleepwatcher_2.2
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share/man/man8
sudo cp sleepwatcher /usr/local/sbin
sudo cp sleepwatcher.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8
sudo cp config/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility.plist /Library/LaunchAgents
sudo cp config/rc.* /etc
cd ..
rm -r sleepwatcher_2.2*

# Add bluetooth script to /etc/rc.wakeup (the script requires root)
sudo tee -a /etc/rc.wakeup <<EOF
kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
EOF

# Load the agent to start sleepwatcher
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility.plist

Thanks a lot!!

I'm on macOS Sierra and using homebrew. I tried following the steps here and a few other locations, but ran into isses with the plist files being slightly different and not loading the correct /etc/rc.wakeup file. I modified the script above and got these commands that got things working reliably for me. Hope it helps someone else.

brew install sleepwatcher
sudo touch /etc/rc.sleep
sudo tee -a /etc/rc.wakeup <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
# Sleepwatcher script to get bluetooth working after the mac wakes up
# Got this approach from https://gist.github.com/Tyilo/c92684d277acb62272b5
kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
EOF
sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.wakeup
brew services start sleepwatcher
sudo tee -a /Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility-custom.plist <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/sbin/sleepwatcher</string>
        <string>-V</string>
        <string>-s /etc/rc.sleep</string>
        <string>-w /etc/rc.wakeup</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>
EOF
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility-custom.plist

Looks like the kextunload commands don't actually work anymore on High Sierra. However, there's a 3rd party command line tool for doing the same thing and it works: https://github.com/toy/blueutil – you can tweak the scripts mentioned here to use blueutil instead, or there's even a full-blown solution (very similar to what we have seen on this page already): https://gist.github.com/ralph-hm/a65840c4f5e439b90170d735a89a863f