{"id":32,"date":"2007-11-12T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T22:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/os-x-disabling-bluetooth\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T23:00:16","slug":"os-x-disabling-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/os-x-disabling-bluetooth\/2007\/11\/12\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X – Disabling bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Mac mini has wifi and bluetooth built in. I’m not a big fan of either so I have them both turned off. The mac makes this easy. There are bluetooth and wifi icons on the main menu bar. If you pop down a menu for either you can turn them off. I assumed that turning them off meant that they would still be off after a reboot. For wifi this seems to be true, but for bluetooth it’s not always the case.<\/p>\n

For most users, bluetooth will still be off after a reboot. But my Mac Mini has no keyboard attached. It’s just a synergy<\/a> client. For some reason on a reboot, OS X tiger notices that I have no keyboard or mouse attached and thinks it should start up bluetooth to search for one regardless of the fact that I had disabled it.<\/p>\n

So you’d think I’d just manually disable it after a reboot. The problem is that because OS X has noticed there is no keyboard and mouse attached … it now won’t let me disable bluetooth. The only way it will let me disable bluetooth is by physically plugging in a keyboard or mouse (not too sure which, as I use a USB to PS\/2 keyboard\/mouse adapter). Crazy.<\/p>\n

So I googled for an answer, and a common one is to do something like this:<\/p>\n

defaults write com.apple.Bluetooth ControllerPowerState 0
\nkillall -SIGHUP blued
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Which did nothing for me. I also found a tip that said to do this:<\/p>\n

defaults write blued BluetoothAutoSeekHIDDevices -int 0<\/code><\/p>\n

That didn’t work either.<\/p>\n

The only successful one I’ve found is to actually remove the Bluetooth kernel modules (which I agree is harsh), but at least it stops Bluetooth completely now:<\/p>\n

cd \/System\/Library
\nmkdir Extensions-Disabled
\nmv Extensions\/IOBluetooth* Extensions-Disabled
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

I found that tip here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Mac mini has wifi and bluetooth built in. I’m not a big fan of either so I have them both turned off. The mac makes this easy. There are bluetooth and wifi icons on the main menu bar. If you pop down a menu for either you can turn them off. I assumed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}