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   Reid 🖤 (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:20:47 JST Reid 🖤
   Does anyone know of an utility other than bluetoothctl for getting bluetooth device information on Linux? Specifically I need to know if there are connected bluetooth devices, and their names and device class
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:20:46 JST 翠星石

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     @reiddragon It seems you can only manually poll that information via BlueZ on GNU - as nobody has bothered to write a shell utility that exports such information.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 01:19:00 JST 翠星石

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     @reiddragon It doesn't look like dbus is a direct dependency of bluez-tools (turns out those are the shell utilities).
     
     It does depend on glib, which of course can be compiled wrong to use dbus.
     
     I have glib installed with USE="-dbus" on Gentoo-libre.
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     Reid 🖤 (reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 01:19:02 JST Reid 🖤

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     @Suiseiseki ofc... was really hoping to avoid dbus