HomeBar for Home Assistant (macOS menu bar app)

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Hi everyone. I’m building HomeBar, a native macOS menu bar app for Home Assistant. I wanted to keep a small set of favorites in the menu bar for quick checks and control. It’s still in development and I’d love feedback.

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Features:

  • Connect via Home Assistant URL + access token (token stored in macOS Keychain)
  • Pick favorites from all entities, and reorder favorites
  • Menu bar panel showing your favorites with live state updates (ws state_changed)
  • Quick controls for:
    • Lights (on/off + brightness)
    • Switches / fans / input_booleans / humidifiers (on/off)
    • Media players (play/pause, next/prev, volume, covers)
    • Climate (set temperature / target range when supported)
    • Covers (open/close/stop)
    • Locks (lock/unlock)
    • Scenes (activate)
    • and Cameras! (live streaming, I am testing on my unifi devices)

If you’re interested in testing and using macOS 26+, reply here or DM me (macOS version + HA version + what domains/devices you’d like to test) and I’ll share the homebar app when I will finish last improvements.

Here is quick video:

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settings:

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looks really nice, looking forward to testing, btw would be nice to have an “active” menu showing everything thats on (light, climate, fan, etc’)

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Thank you for your suggestion! I also realized that I need some kind of grouping. I just implemented possiblity to use areas/room and list them as tabs. On the other hand, the ability to filter by status also makes sense. I’ll look into this, thanks for the comment!

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I want to try, have been looking for exactly this!
But I can’t seem to get to your profile - so I can’t dm? (Sorry, new to this forum)
I’m running latest MacOS Tahoe 26.3, HA 2026.2.2, and want to try with zigbee lamps, Ikea air-purifiers

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Thank you for the messages! I replied via DM.

When I tried to submit the app to the App Store, I got an alert saying that the name “HomeBar” can’t be used because an app with that name already exists. I had to rename my app. The new name is “HomeGlance”, and the new domain is https://gethomeglance.com.

I also made some updates and fixes, including new icons. I prepared a short video showing the current state of the app:

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Would also love to try this!

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