NAME

       bluemon — Activate or deactivate programs based on bluetooth link quality

SYNOPSIS

       bluemon  [-b aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff]  [--btid aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff]  [-t threshold]  [--threshold threshold]  [-i
       interval]  [--interval interval]  [-s ]  [--stdout  ]   [--no-syslog  ]   [-n  ]   [--no-fork  ]   [-v  ]
       [--verbose  ]  [-d ]  [--disconnect-hack ]  [-q ]  [--link-quality ]  [-h ]  [--help ]  [-V ]  [--version
       ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the bluemon command.

       bluemon monitors the quality of the link to a bluetooth device and emits dbus signals when it drops below
       a given threshold or disconnects. Used with the bluemon-client program,  This  can  be  used  to  perform
       actions like locking the terminal when you walk away from it.

OPTIONS

       These  programs  follow  the  usual  GNU  command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes
       (`-').  A summary of options is included below.

       -i           --interval
                 The check interval, in ms.

       -t           --threshold
                 The link quality threshold, out of 255

       -b           --btid
                 The bluetooth ID to monitor (e.g. aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff). This parameter may be specified  multiple
                 times to monitor multiple devices.

       -s           --stdout           --no-syslog
                 Log to stdout rather than syslog

       -n           --no-fork
                 Do not become a daemon

       -d           --disconnect-hack
                 Enable  this  if your bluetooth device disconnects regularly while still in range, adds a small
                 delay into noticing device abscence upon disconnect.

       -v           --verbose
                 Enable verbose output

       -q           --link-quality
                 Check for link quality to device. Default only checks for presence of connection.

       -h           --help
                 Show summary of options.

       -V           --version
                 print version.

SEE ALSO

       hcitool (1), bluemon-client(1), bluemon-query(1), bluemon-dbus(7).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx> for the Debian system (but may be
       used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the  terms
       of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

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