EarA
Open-source controls for Nothing and CMF earbuds on Linux
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Control battery, ANC, transparency, EQ, gestures, codecs and Find My Earbuds from a native GTK4 app or CLI. EarA talks to compatible Nothing and CMF earbuds over Bluetooth and is free under GPL-3.0.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
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Partial A GTK4 app and CLI are straightforward, but controlling the earbuds requires reverse-engineering their proprietary Bluetooth protocol, which is undocumented and needs hardware testing.
What it would actually take: Capture BLE and GATT traffic from the official Nothing X app with packet sniffing, decode the command set for battery, ANC, EQ, and gestures, then implement it in a BlueZ-based client with a GTK4 frontend. The work depends on the earbud hardware for testing and on existing community reverse-engineering notes. It needs someone skilled in Bluetooth protocols and Linux, not just app building.
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Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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