Turning Bluetooth off and on

[Jez]

I'm looking for a way to have Homeseer HS3 turn off Bluetooth and then turn it back on again. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
I'm using Windows 10.

I have a Powershell script that does it and it works when I kick it off from a batch file but it fails when I execute the batch file from HS3. I have no experience with Powershell so I'm flummoxed. Perhaps there are some Powershell experts out there who could help?

Thanks
Jez

[mterry63]

Sounds like a Windows user rights issue. Are the windows users the same in both scenarios you describe above?


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[Jez]

[jon00]

Create a Windows shortcut to the BAT file and set that to run as an Administrator. Then get Homeseer to run the shortcut.

[Jez]

Good suggestion but no, it still fails.

[jon00]

Are you running Homeseer as an administrator?

[Jez]

Yup. Just tried that as well.

This is the Powershell code which is in script bluetoothOff.ps1. Excuse the extraneous bits.....

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process
Get-ExecutionPolicy -List

$BluetoothStatus = "Off"

#If ((Get-Service bthserv).Status -eq 'Stopped') { Start-Service bthserv }
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime
$asTaskGeneric = ([System.WindowsRuntimeSystemExtensions].GetMethods() | ? { $_.Name -eq 'AsTask' -and $_.GetParameters().Count -eq 1 -and $_.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType.Name -eq 'IAsyncOperation`1' })[0]
Function Await($WinRtTask, $ResultType) {
$asTask = $asTaskGeneric.MakeGenericMethod($ResultType)
$netTask = $asTask.Invoke($null, @($WinRtTask))
$netTask.Wait(-1)
$netTask.Result
}
[Windows.Devices.Radios.Radio,Windows.System.Devices,ContentT ype=WindowsRuntime]
[Windows.Devices.Radios.RadioAccessStatus,Windows.System.Devi ces,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]
Await ([Windows.Devices.Radios.Radio]::RequestAccessAsync()) ([Windows.Devices.Radios.RadioAccessStatus])
$radios = Await ([Windows.Devices.Radios.Radio]::GetRadiosAsync()) ([System.Collections.Generic.IReadOnlyList[Windows.Devices.Radios.Radio]])
$radios
$bluetooth = $radios | ? { $_.Kind -eq 'Bluetooth' }
[Windows.Devices.Radios.RadioState,Windows.System.Devices,Con tentType=WindowsRuntime]
Await ($bluetooth.SetStateAsync($BluetoothStatus)) ([Windows.Devices.Radios.RadioAccessStatus])

BluetoothOff.ps1 is executed by jongo.bat which contains.....
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell -noexit -executionpolicy Bypass c:\data\scripts\bluetoothOff.ps1

- Run the batch from Windows Explorer and it turns off Bluetooth.
- Execute it from HS3 and I get:
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At C:\data\scripts\bluetoothOff.ps1:22 char:1
+ Await ($bluetooth.SetStateAsync($BluetoothStatus)) ([Windows.Devices. ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: ( [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

I suspect its to do with the execution policy but I'm stumped. Any help gratefully received.