https://mlambert.uk/tags/smart-home/ Recent content in Smart-Home on mlambert_uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-GB © Mark Lambert Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlambert.uk/post/building-an-omarchy-govee-plugin/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlambert.uk/post/building-an-omarchy-govee-plugin/ <p>I wrote recently about <a href="https://mlambert.uk/post/omarchy/">switching to Omarchy</a> and what it does for me as a development machine. One of the things I love about it is that when something is missing, you don't wait for a vendor roadmap—you build it. Omarchy recently released their Quattro release, which includes the ability to write custom plugins. I have always wanted a way to control my office Govee lights from my desktop, but controlling them meant reaching for a phone app every time. On a machine designed to keep me from breaking flow, that felt wrong. So I built <a href="https://github.com/mlambert-uk/omarchy-govee">omarchy-govee</a>, a plugin that puts device control—power, brightness, colour, colour temperature, scenes, even fan modes—directly into the Omarchy bar. It means when I join a meeting, I can quickly turn off my room fan, and adjust my lights to something suitable. The plugin is now submitted to the omarchy-plugins directory.</p>