AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem

Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by t1234s on Saturday November 15, 2025 @08:21PM (#45941946)

This excellent.. there needs to be a macos version as well. Using Mavericks I was unable to adjust any settings on my airpods pro 2

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Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by Wowfunhappy on Saturday November 15, 2025 @09:26PM (#45942242)

I can’t get my Airpods Pro 2 to connect to Mavericks at all for any length of time, this has been driving me nuts for years! They’ll connect and play audio for a few seconds, then cut out, and I’ll have to re-pair to get any audio again.

Did you have to do anything special?

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Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by varenc on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:45PM (#45942594)

Check out AirBuddy for something that provides similar control in macOS. Closed source and costs money though. It doesn't need to rely on the reverse engineered protocol, and instead just calls out to macOS APIs to manipulate the Airpods. (I presume)

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Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by Wowfunhappy on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:14AM (#45944531)

Not going to help on Mavericks, which doesn’t have those APIs.

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Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by itsnoone on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:33PM (#45942540)

i don't think macos allows l2cap connections (the protocol that airpods use), at least pybluez doesn't support that on macos which would've made making a simple script a lot simpler.

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Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by krackers on Sunday November 16, 2025 @01:48AM (#45943268)

Does this not do what you want? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iobluetooth/ioblue...

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