HAmbar

Home Assistant in your Mac menu bar — entities, scripts, and connection status one click away.

• Website: hambar.info
• macOS 15.0 or later

Install

brew tap hipszkij/hambar https://github.com/hipszkij/hambar-homebrew
brew trust hipszkij/hambar
brew install --cask hambar

After installing, open Settings → Connection and enter your Home Assistant URL and long-lived access token.

Download

Latest release: GitHub Releases

Release notes

1.5 — 2026-06-30

• Global keyboard shortcuts: toggle the panel, per-camera quick look, and camera overview grid.
• Camera quick look floating window and two-column camera overview (Pro).
• Minimum macOS version lowered to 14.0.
• App Store StoreKit purchase flow improvements (loading state and retry).

1.4 — 2026-06-25

• Camera snapshots in the menu bar panel: live preview, separate window, and full screen.
• 24-hour temperature history chart — tap a temperature sensor in the panel.
• New UI languages: German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian.
• Clearer Remote URL labeling in Connection settings for away-from-home servers.

1.3 — 2026-06-18

• Mac App Store build with StoreKit lifetime Pro purchase and restore.
• Direct download continues to use Lemon Squeezy license keys.

1.2 — 2026-06-18

• Climate entity management is now available in the menu bar panel and Settings.
• Control target temperature, HVAC mode, and fan intensity from the expanded panel.

1.1 — 2026-06-17

• Improved connection stability and automatic recovery after network changes.

1.0 — 2026-06-16

• Initial public release
• Developer ID signed and notarized macOS app
• Home Assistant menu bar panel with entities and scripts

Pro license

Purchase a lifetime license on the website. Enter the license key in Settings → Subscription.

Releasing (maintainers)

1. Export a signed + notarized HAmbar.app to builds/HAmbar.app.
2. Edit .version/notes/<version>.md (see .version/next for the version number).
3. Run:

./scripts/release.sh
./scripts/push-release.sh

Use ./scripts/release.sh --help and ./scripts/push-release.sh --help for options.