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Akku: Experimental Bluetooth headset battery monitoring application for macOS

51 pointsby metahostover 4 years ago

8 comments

kossTKRover 4 years ago
This is cool and works with my headset JBL Reflect Contour Mini!<p>The fact that Apple &quot;hides&quot; this because you are not using an apple product is gross and stupid in any &quot;Pro&quot; context.<p>I honestly don&#x27;t think &quot;actively annoying&quot; people and bullying them into buying apple accessories is creating increased margins - also most products have no apple alternative - i simply don&#x27;t get this.
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wojciiiover 4 years ago
&quot;It will map a region of memory from the kernel to Akku, and scan through the raw bluetooth data.&quot;<p>I thought that the Bluetooth support on Apple devices was already crippled by Apple buy this is (for me) a brand new way to shoot yourself in the foot.<p>It would be interesting to someone from that company to explain the decisions taken to limit which parts of Bluetooth BR&#x2F;EDR and Bluetooth LE they support and the limitations the force on their users.
pehejeover 4 years ago
I think this fits in good here <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.spencermounta.in&#x2F;2020&#x2F;should-we-stop&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.spencermounta.in&#x2F;2020&#x2F;should-we-stop&#x2F;index.html</a><p>&quot;Information technology has not happened yet.&quot;<p>Not directed at OP or Akku creator, but more in general.
Rebelgeckoover 4 years ago
Awesome! I recently got a pair of BT headphones and was surprised that my Android phone and Windows machine showed the battery level, but that my MacBook Pro didn&#x27;t. Especially since the battery level is exposed via a standard BTLE characteristic
dbetteridgeover 4 years ago
Works well for the WF-1000MX3 .<p>Notification feature will be handy to remind me charge the damn things when they&#x27;re getting low (i&#x27;ve got the voice prompts off).
rd07over 4 years ago
Are there any similar applications&#x2F;widget in Linux especially in KDE Plasma that can do this?
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cmgover 4 years ago
Very cool! Works with my Sony WH-CH510 headphones. Looking forward to checking out the source.
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jwaltonover 4 years ago
Been a while since there was an update to this project...