Disable Bluetooth on Mac before Sleep

The recent Monterey update (12.2), introduced a bug that drains the battery of my laptop while sleeping.

A fix is to disable bluetooth before putting it to sleep, but who remembers that?

Luckily, I use Launchbar to put the Mac to sleep: it has a very convenient Sleep action.

I then copied and updated the action to have it turn off bluetooth before sleeping.

How can you do the same?

First, install Homebrew.

Then, activate Launchbar (⌘ Space on my Mac), and then launch its index (⌥ ⌘ I).

In the general section on the left, click on Action. From there, use the search bar to find the Sleep action, disable its checkbox, right-click, and select Show in Action Editor.

Then right-click the Sleep action and duplicate it.

Once you have duplicated, rename it to Sleep BT (or whatever), click on Scripts, and click on Edit.

Replace the content of the script with

-- Sleep
-- LaunchBar Action
-- default.scpt
-- Version 3
--
-- Copyright (c) 2007-2016 Objective Development
-- https://obdev.at/

tell application "LaunchBar" to hide
delay 0.5
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/ blueutil -p 0"
tell application "System Events" to sleep

The only new line is the one but last, do shell script "/usr/local/bin/ blueutil -p 0".

Save it, and you’re done!

Remember though: every time you wake the Mac up from sleep, you need to reactivate bluetooth!