Linux – Connect to a Bluetooth device via Terminal

I'm using Mint 15 w/ Cinnamon.

I bought a set of bluetooth speakers and I'm trying to connect to them via terminal. Via the GUI I can see them normally and I am connected to them. I want to make a small script so every time they are visible I would connect to them automatically.

I am trying to scan them with:

hcitool scan

But I get

Scanning…

and after a few seconds the process dies.

The same thing with hidd --search.

If I run hciconfig scan I get:

hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
    BD Address: 40:2C:F4:78:E8:69  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
    UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 
    RX bytes:130700 acl:22 sco:0 events:18527 errors:0
    TX bytes:31875398 acl:36784 sco:0 commands:75 errors:0

I suppose that is just saying my bluetooth address and that it is turned on.

As I said already, via the normal User Interface, I can see the speakers and I am connected to them, but through terminal I get nothing.

Actually it is quite funny that hcitool scan isn't finding anything since my speakers are connected and every time I run the command the sound from the speakers breaks for a couple of seconds.