How do you disable Bluetooth from terminal in Ubuntu

To stop :

sudo service bluetooth stop

To start again:

sudo service bluetooth start

To restart :

sudo service bluetooth restart

To check current status:

service bluetooth status

Or you can use rfkill command:

rfkill block bluetooth

You can also disable single adapters like

sudo hciconfig hci0 down

If hci0 is the only adapter, this means bluetooth is unavailable then.


Also if you want to disable it permanently:

sudo mv /etc/init/bluetooth.conf /etc/init/bluetooth.conf.disabled

To re-enable:

sudo mv /etc/init/bluetooth.conf.disabled /etc/init/bluetooth.conf