Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar

Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by api on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:23AM (#27035891)

All these things that require and support only a mobile app to set up are tremendously irritating. I use my headphones with my Mac and would like to be able to configure and update them there.

Can we get over this "mobile is replacing everything" meme? It's obviously not happening. I never thought it would happen, but a bunch of people started predicting it via faulty reasoning by loose analogy with the mainframe to PC transition.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by passtheglass on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:29AM (#27036410)

You don't need a mobile app to set these headphones up at all. Everything is available on the device with phyiscal buttons (part of the reason it's such a good pair of headphones), the tech existed before people became conditioned on having apps for everythng.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by lxgr on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:06PM (#27039094)

As far as I know, you can't manage the list of paired devices from just the headphones, as well as managing the noise cancellation level on the original QC35.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by tinnyx on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:31AM (#27035956)

While the part with configuration is true, it is at least possible to update some of the headphones using https://btu.bose.com/#section=install

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