Toggling the Bluetooth Radio - ThinkPad

[David_Batson]

I have been using the following method to toggle the Bluetooth Radio on and off with the hotkey combo Fn+F9.
Likely this could be adapted to use other hotkeys.

rfkill needs to be installed.

To find acpi events, run acpi_listen in Konsole, then press a hotkey such as ThinkVantage or hotkey combo such as Fn+F9. Some potential hotkey(s) will not show acpi events as they are already used by the system.

For using Fn+F9 I created the file /etc/acpi/events/bluetoothconf as root.

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event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001009
action=/etc/acpi/actions/bluetooth.sh

I created the file /etc/acpi/actions/bluetooth.sh as root and made it executable.

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#!/bin/sh

BT_RFKILL=$(rfkill list | grep tpacpi_bluetooth_sw | sed 's/\([0-9]\+\):.*/\1/')
BT_STATE=$(/usr/bin/rfkill list $BT_RFKILL | grep "Soft blocked: yes")

if [ "x" == "x$BT_STATE" ]; then
   /usr/bin/rfkill block $BT_RFKILL
else
   /usr/bin/rfkill unblock $BT_RFKILL
fi

exit 0

Lastly I ran the following command in Konsole as root:

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etc/init.d/acpid restart

Now I use Fn+F9 to toggle the Bluetooth Radio off and on.