Connect to a Bluetooth device via Terminal

Question

I'm using Mint 15 w/ Cinnamon.

I bought a set of bluetooth speakers and I'm tring to connect to them via terminal. Via GUI I can see them normally and I am connected to them. I want to make a small script so everytime they are visible I would connect to them automatically.

I am trying to scan them with:

hcitool scan

But I get

Scanning...

and after a few seconds the process dies.

The same thing with hidd --search.

If I run hciconfig scan I get:

hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
    BD Address: 40:2C:F4:78:E8:69  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
    UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 
    RX bytes:130700 acl:22 sco:0 events:18527 errors:0
    TX bytes:31875398 acl:36784 sco:0 commands:75 errors:0

I suppose that is just saying my bluetooth address and that it is turned on.

As I said already, via the normal User Interface, I can see the speakers and I am connected to them, but through terminal I get nothing.

Actually it is quite funny that hcitool scan isn't finding anything since my speakers are connected and every time I run the command the sound from the speakers breaks for a couple of seconds.

Answer 1

I managed to do so via bluez-tools:

sudo apt-get install bluez-tools

List of devices to get the MAC address of my device:

bt-device -l

and successfully connect to it:

bt-audio -c 01:02:03:04:05:06

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Keep in mind that the bt-audio feature is being reimplemented for newer versions.

Answer 2

I did to sudo apt-get install bluez-tools, because I did use it at some point.

After being able to find the device from hcitool scan, I ran bluez-simple-agent hci0 X where X is the mac address of the device I was adding. This created the connection to the device.

Then I ran hciconfig scan and it seems to have automatically started the connection.