Show all currently connected Bluetooth devices

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HI There,

on my Laptop I am using
a) the build-in keyboard with German Keyboard layout
b) a bluetooth connected keyboard with Swiss-german keyboard layout

I am using them mutual exclusive.

I want to use a powershell scripts that checks if my Bluetooth keyboard is connected and then switch to swiss-german layout and if not, set windows to german layout.

Both regional keyboard layout setting and layouts are installed on my Windows 11 with Powershell 7.4.2

I tried Get-PnPDevice which goes in the right direction but has strange behaviour.
It shows me devices as STATUS=OK although they are not currently connected to Windows.
Also the attribute “Availability” nor “PresentOnly” seems to help.

Does anybody have an idea/advice?

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Have you explored WMI/CIM at all for this? I’m not at a computer right now but I found this

and it seems like maybe it could provide different results than what you’re getting with Get-PnPDevice

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Hi greyout,

thanks for the swift reply. Unfortunately, the PowerShell script linked above gives me similar results than PnPDevice. Meaning it shows devices as connected which are currently (for sure) not connected.
I have the feeling by “connected” the system means in fact “coupled” and this is not what I want.

So all devices that are “coupled” AND “connected_currenty” so to say.

Thanks anyway.
M

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The state/status found in Get-PnpDevice as well as the WMI/CIM classes reflects the hardware connected state (is the device operational) neither of these will show you external bluetooth device connectivity. I am fairly certain you will need to use either a 3rd party utility or library to get those details. Something like this Bluetooth command line tools - work with bluetooth from the command line

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Hello,
According to me you can use a PowerShell script, It define your Bluetooth keyboard’s name. Then, create a function to check if this device is connected using Get-PnpDevice. If the device status is “OK,” it means the keyboard is connected and then create a function to set the keyboard layout by modifying the input method tips with Set-WinUserLanguageList.

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Hi ebrukilli,

my experience with Get-PnPDevice ist, that it does show the “connected” Bluetooth devices in the attribute “Status”, but it seems to mean rather coupled than actually “connected”. It’s a bit of a pain in the :peach:
Ill try this 3rd party tool mentioned above as a work-around. But I would be still interested in getting a powershell script solution.

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