v0.1.0

airpods-helper v0.1.0

Native Apple AirPods support for Linux — first release.

Features

• ANC control — Off, Noise Cancellation, Transparency, Adaptive
• Battery levels — Left, Right, Case with charging status
• Ear detection — Auto-pause/resume media (MPRIS)
• Conversational Awareness — Toggle + activity state tracking
• Adaptive noise level — 0-100 fine-grained control
• Parametric EQ — PipeWire filter-chain presets
• Auto-reconnect — Exponential backoff on disconnect
• CLI tool — airpods-cli status, airpods-cli anc noise, etc.
• D-Bus interface — org.costa.AirPods for desktop integration
• GTK4 widgets — Bar button + popover for AGS

Install

Arch Linux (AUR): coming soon

Generic Linux:

tar xzf airpods-helper-0.1.0-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
cd airpods-helper-0.1.0-x86_64-linux
./install.sh
sudo setcap 'cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip' ~/.local/bin/airpods-daemon
systemctl --user enable --now airpods-daemon.service

From source:

make build && make install

See README for full docs.