Favorite Device - Auto connect?

[allcentury]

Right now airpods seem to automatically connect to my phone when I'd rather it be my laptop. Can favorites watch available devices and toggle on instead of manually needing to toggle?

[vegardinho]

I’m not sure I understand what you mean, but I doubt there’s much I can do here. Your airpods connecting automatically is handled by the OS, and should not require any additional software to do so. (And very unlikely even possible with a workflow.) I’m not familiar with airpods, but generally bluetooth devices tend to connect to a preferred device, usually the last one connected, thus hindering any automatic connection to any other device. (Though I’m not really sure wether it’s the bluetooth device or the device it’s connecting to that requests the connection.) I would suggest you unpair them with your phone and mac, pair them again, first with your mac, then your iphone.

That being said, pairing using the workflow has been buggy with my headphones. They claim to be paired but won’t connect properly, and only connect when paired the old fashioned way. Therefore, try pairing using the default menu on the mac if you still have problems.

El El lun, 24 ene 2022 a la(s) 23:39, Anthony Ross @.***> escribió:

Right now airpods seem to automatically connect to my phone when I'd rather it be my laptop. Can favorites watch available devices and toggle on instead of manually needing to toggle?

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[allcentury]

@vegardinho sorry if my issue was missing details. I have 5 apple devices in my office, 3 for work, 2 for personal use.

I want to set a preferred device (work laptop) that my airpods connect to. So I'm thinking the flow is, open airpods case (becomes bluetooth available). If they are not connected to my worklaptop in some_time_interval, have this controller prompt me asking if it should connect. If it already is connected, do nothing.

I see that as:

1. repeated task to watch devices available and connected
2. connection prompt when not (sleep or mute by user's preference)

Apple has this somewhat built in, via connect to last device but i'm having mixed experience with it.

[vegardinho]

I still stand by my last comment that this is beyond the scope of the workflow, and that i doubt this is even possible to implement with an alfred workflow. I understand the frustration though, bluetooth has caused me more than a fair share of trouble over the years as well.

El El mar, 25 ene 2022 a la(s) 19:33, Anthony Ross @.***> escribió:

@vegardinho https://github.com/vegardinho sorry if my issue was missing details. I have 5 apple devices in my office, 3 for work, 2 for personal use.

I want to set a preferred device (work laptop) that my airpods connect to. So I'm thinking the flow is, open airpods case (becomes bluetooth available). If they are not connected to my worklaptop in some_time_interval, have this controller prompt me asking if it should connect. If it already is connected, do nothing.

I see that as:

1. repeated task to watch devices available and connected
2. connection prompt when not (sleep or mute by user's preference)

Apple has this somewhat built in, via connect to last device https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/stop-airpods-connecting-to-other-devices/ but i'm having mixed experience with it.

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[allcentury]

Thanks for chatting through it, I'll close.