---
name: "bluemon-client"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bluemon"
version: "1.4-10"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bluemon-client"
---

# bluemon-client(1)

Activate or deactivate programs based on bluetooth link quality

## NAME

bluemon-client — Activate or deactivate programs based on bluetooth link quality

## SYNOPSIS

**bluemon-client** \[**-u** *command\]  \[***--upcmd** *command\]  \[***-d** *command\]  \[***--downcmd** *command\]  \[***-b** *aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff\]  \[***--btid** *aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff\]  \[***-v** *\]  \[***--verbose** *\]  \[***-p** *\]  \[***--protect** *\]  \[***-h** *\]  \[***--help** *\]  \[***-V** *\]  \[***--version** *\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **bluemon-client** command.

**bluemon-client** listens for events from  the bluemon daemon and can start or stop programs when the  given device is connected or disconnected. This can be used   to perform actions like locking the terminal when you walk  away from it.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of  options is included below.

- **-u** **--upcmd**

  The command to be run when the device is connected.

- **-d** **--downcmd**

  The command to be run when the device is disconnected.

- **-b** **--btid**

  The bluetooth ID to monitor (e.g. aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff)

- **-p** **--protect**

  Try and protect against spoofing on the DBUS.  Requires signals to come from a process owned by the root  user.

- **-v** **--verbose**

  Enable verbose output

- **-h** **--help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-V** **--version**

  Print version

## SEE ALSO

bluemon (1), [bluemon-query(1)](/bluemon-query/1.md), [bluemon-dbus(7)](/bluemon-dbus/7.md).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthew Johnson \<debian@matthew.ath.cx\> for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.