DylanBudsTray is a windows system tray to facilitate bluetooth quick connect, because I use more than one pair of earbuds on multiple devices and got sick of waiting for windows to discover all the bluetooth devices just to click on the one I want to connect. With this tool you can right click on the system tray and select which bluetooth device you want to connect.
Just ensure you have installed bluetooth command line tools and then download the executable installer from the release page and run.
The installation consists of ensuring you have the required prerequisites, copying some files and creating a scheduled task to start the system tray on startup:
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Requirements:
a) You must install bluetooth command line tools
b) Ensure that you can run powershell scripts
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Copy all files from
.\srcinto%programfiles(x86)%\DylanBudsTray -
Create a new task in Task Scheduler with the following:
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Triggers
- At startup
- Delay task for: 10 minutes
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Action
- Program/Script:
cmd
- Arguments:
/c start /min "" powershell -WindowStyle Hidden -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Program Files (x86)\DylanBudsTray\buds_tray.ps1"
- Program/Script:
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For the task General->Security opions:
- Run only when the user is logged on
- Run with the highest priveleges
- Hidden
I use a powershell script buds_tray.ps1 to build the system tray from Windows Forms. There is an option to configure devices in the tray (simply opens up devices.txt from the installed folder). You can use btdiscovery -s from the command line to find the Id of the bluetooth device you want to add and name it whatever you want. A click on a device releases and then reconnects the A2DP Music service (110b) which should cause your system to reconnect to all services for that bt device (this works for all my earbud devices, but have not tested extensively). If you want other services, you can edit the lines in buds_tray.ps1 that call btcom and add whatever bluetooth service you want.