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wendy device bluetooth

Manages Bluetooth peripherals on the connected WendyOS device. Aliased as wendy device bt.

wendy device bluetooth

Manages Bluetooth peripherals on the connected WendyOS device. Aliased as wendy device bt.

Run without a subcommand to open an interactive table for browsing and managing peripherals; the subcommands below remain available for scripting.

Interactive TUI

wendy device bluetooth

Results appear quickly — an initial batch of nearby peripherals is delivered after about 1 s, and a more complete set arrives once the full ~8 s scan window finishes. Discovered peripherals are deduplicated by address and sorted: connected devices first, then paired devices, then named devices (alphabetically by name), then anonymous peripherals (by descending RSSI — strongest signal first). Ties within each group fall back to address ascending.

Unnamed peripherals are hidden by default. Press h to show them or hide them again. The table shows how many peripherals are hidden. This also applies to the Bluetooth tab in wendy device pair.

KeyAction
↑/↓Move the selection
←/→Scroll the table horizontally (when it overflows)
enterConnect to the selected peripheral (pairs and trusts it)
dDisconnect the selected (connected) peripheral
fForget the selected (paired) peripheral
hShow or hide unnamed peripherals
rRescan
q / escQuit

Actions update the table immediately (optimistically) on success. Because a Bluetooth rescan takes several seconds, the table is not rescanned automatically after each action — press r to refresh against the device.

Subcommands

wendy device bluetooth list

Scans for peripherals and prints them as a table, or as JSON with --json. The scan runs in two passes over roughly 8 s total (an early ~1 s partial pass, then a full pass); list waits for the stream to finish before printing, so expect it to take up to ~8 s to return.

wendy device bluetooth list [--json]

For a connected Bluetooth LE peripheral, the Link timeout column shows the link's supervision timeout: how long a silent link lasts before it is dropped. The agent holds BLE HID devices such as gamepads at 0.5 s; (device) marks a device whose own, longer value is in force. See Bluetooth. With --json the values are supervision_timeout_ms and requested_supervision_timeout_ms.

wendy device bluetooth connect

Connects to a peripheral by address.

wendy device bluetooth connect <address> [--pair] [--trust]

wendy device bluetooth disconnect

Disconnects a peripheral by address.

wendy device bluetooth disconnect <address>

wendy device bluetooth forget

Removes the pairing for a peripheral by address.

wendy device bluetooth forget <address>

Flags

FlagDescription
--pairPair with the device when connecting (default true, connect only).
--trustTrust the device when connecting (default true, connect only).
--jsonOutput the scan result as JSON (list only).

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