bluetoothctl to hcitool equivalent commands

Question

In Linux I used to use "hidd --connect mmac" to connect with BT devices but that is now gone since Bluez5. I can use bluetoothctl to make the connection manually but I need to use these commands from my app and using bluetoothctl would be difficult.

What are the hcitool equivalent commands to do what bluetoothctl does?

For example, I would type in bluetoothctl:

select <cmac>
scan on
trust <mmac>
pairable on
pair <mmac>
connect <mmac>

I can use "hcitool scan" for the scanning but I haven't figured out connecting. I've tried using "hcitool cc mmac" followed by "hcitool auth mmac" but nothing works.

Or can hcitool do what bluetoothctl does?

Answer 1

I am using bluetoothctl from scripts like this:

#!/bin/bash
bluetoothctl << EOF
power on
EOF

And it is possible to specify multiple commands as one command per line.

Strangely enough, it does not work like this for me:

echo "power on" | bluetoothctl

(I am using bluez-5.21-r1 - not sure whether this is version dependent)