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− 0.6 mTwo small native macOS apps where most people would have settled for the vendors' phone apps. LGTVRemote speaks the LG webOS protocol directly, over a secure websocket on the local network with TLS pairing. GoveeRemote drives the smart lights — scenes, groups, brightness — through Govee's official Platform API, and shares its scenes with Honey, the resident voice assistant, so "dim the lights" means the same thing from the menu bar and out loud.
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− 1.3 mSwift, menu-bar-native. The television is driven entirely over the LAN; the lights go out through the vendor's own developer API, the one route Govee offers. The debug logs show the integration working both directions — the light app reporting its scenes and groups back to the assistant on reload, the TV app maintaining its paired session. Small tools, but load-bearing: they are the hands of the voice stack.
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− 2.0 mField note, from the build logs: Every build is code-signed with a stable Developer ID — not for distribution, but because macOS ties privacy permissions to the signing identity. An ad-hoc-signed rebuild would silently revoke every permission grant and the assistant's hands would stop working after each compile. Signing properly means the OS keeps trusting the app across rebuilds. The kind of fix that takes an afternoon to discover and one line to keep forever.