lighthouse-v2-manager VS lh2ctrl

There's a setting under power management that will fully power down the motors when asleep. If you are hearing these things in VR, you have a faulty base station or ears like superman. Mine are only audible in an otherwise completely quiet room. On occasion, a power blip will cause them to turn on. For that, there's an app on Android (someone may have ported to iOS) called Lighthouse PM. For PC if ya have a bluetooth adapter there's https://github.com/nouser2013/lighthouse-v2-manager.

If you have android there's a Lighthouse Power Management app, it's still in beta but I've been using it without any major issues. LPM also mentions Manager for V2 Lighthouses by Valve/HTC if you require a desktop app but I've never used it.

Desktop: https://github.com/nouser2013/lighthouse-v2-manager

If you have Bluetooth on your PC (built-in or usb dongle) you can use this tool to control the lighthouses outside of SteamVR: https://github.com/nouser2013/lighthouse-v2-manager

On Linux someone made python scripts to turn them off and on, there is a windows version as well you may have a look on this github page: https://github.com/nouser2013/lighthouse-v2-manager/

So yeah, unless you're taking brand new base stations that need to be updated to the latest firmware you don't need to worry about bluetooth. If you're trying to make the connection so they can be powered down remotely, it's possible to use a phone app to do this and there's also a [github app](https://github.com/nouser2013/lighthouse-v2-manager) for windows that may work.

as for the problem with base station control, there's a couple of scripts for 1.0 (vive) and 2.0 (index) that seem to work reasonably well in my experience (albeit with some setup required)