I just found that the indicator is broken since elementary OS 7 (Horus) most likely due to a change in Bluez API/DBus/Vala interface. Since I don't really have motivation (or free time) to fix it and update the indicator for recent elementary OS versions, it's time for me to let it go and archive the project.
Wingpanel AirPods is a status indicator that displays Apple's AirPods status information in elementary OS Wingpanel.
Being this one of my first Vala applications I'm sure that the code can be improved, so:
- If you find any problems while running the application please report it through an issue.
- Pull requests and translations are welcome.
- Feedback and suggestions are always welcome as well.
- Displays AirPods connection status
- Displays AirPods battery charge percentage in the indicator
- Displays battery charge status per AirPod and also for the charging case in the popover
- Notifys the user when the AirPods battery or case is running low
- Supports media player playback control using AirPods in-ear detection:
- Stop the audio: remove both AirPods from your ears, or if you’re wearing just one, remove it. If you return one to your ear within 15 seconds, play resumes automatically.
- Pause the audio: while listening with both AirPods, remove one. When you return it to your ear, playback resumes automatically.
- Supports battery saver mode to preserve battery life while the system is running on battery (e.g. laptops) *
* In order to preserve system battery life some indicator features (e.g. media player playback control using AirPods in-ear detection) will be disabled and AirPods battery level report may be less accurate
- elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera
- elementary OS 6.0 Odin
- Bluetooth 4.0 adapter with BLE support
You'll need the following dependencies:
libglib2.0-dev
libnotify-dev
libgranite-dev
libgtk-3-dev
libwingpanel-2.0-dev (Hera)
libwingpanel-dev (Odin)
libhandy-1-dev (Odin)
meson
valac
You can install them in elementary OS Hera running:
sudo apt install libnotify-dev libgranite-dev libgtk-3-dev libwingpanel-2.0-dev meson valac
Or in elementary OS Odin running:
sudo apt install libnotify-dev libgranite-dev libgtk-3-dev libwingpanel-dev libhandy-1-dev meson valac
Run meson to configure the build environment and then ninja to build
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
To install, use ninja install
sudo ninja install
com.github.casasfernando.wingpanel-indicator-airpods
You can also find a deb package available with every release in the releases page. To install it you just need to download the package for your elementary OS release and run:
sudo dpkg -i wingpanel-indicator-airpods_<release>_<hera|odin>_amd64.deb
- Federico Dossena for developing OpenPods and the beacon data decoding algorithm on which the beacon decoding code of this project is based on.