https://github.com/edgarogh/blueman-ueboom
Blueman plugin to remotely turn on UE speakers
https://github.com/edgarogh/blueman-ueboom
blueman bluetooth bluetooth-speaker linux linux-desktop logitech ultimate-ears
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Blueman plugin to remotely turn on UE speakers
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/edgarogh/blueman-ueboom
- Owner: edgarogh
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-08-20T08:57:22.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-07-28T18:58:46.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-28T20:48:47.589Z (11 months ago)
- Topics: blueman, bluetooth, bluetooth-speaker, linux, linux-desktop, logitech, ultimate-ears
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 55.7 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Blueman plugin for [UE Boom Bluetooth speakers](https://www.ultimateears.com/)
[Blueman](https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman) is a very common bluetooth GUI for Linux. _Ultimate Ears_ Bluetooth speakers can be remotely "turned on" by sending a special packet. This plugin allows you to do exactly that from Blueman's UI. It uses the MAC address of known devices to guess if a device is likely to be a UE speaker and only displays the "turn on" button when that's the case.
## Installation
Inspect the contents of `install.sh` (there's one line to read 👻) and run it. If it doesn't work, then re-read the script and try to understand what it does concretely, it shouldn't be hard to adapt to your system.
Creating a deb file might be nice too.
## Problems
For some reason, on my PC, I can only turn the speaker on once per power cycle. After successfully powering the speaker on, I won't be able to send more packets until I reboot. Maybe there's a cache somewhere that I should clear, but I don't know precisely how the Bluex stack works and don't have the time to look into it.
## Acknowledgments
* https://gist.github.com/marcust/af93ff47899583f5a52f for documenting how to turnn the speaker on
* [Blueman](https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman)'s existing plugins' source code that I used as documentation