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RyHome

Home is a click away.

Set the mood without leaving your desk. RyHome controls your Matter devices directly over your network, alongside Apple Home, Google Home, or Alexa. No Mac or separate controller hub required.

Download for Windows View on GitHub

RyHome's home screen with rooms of lights, plugs, a lock, sensors, and scenes

How it works

Your PC RyHome with its built-in Matter engine

Wi-Fi or Ethernet

Matter devices Lights, plugs, locks, blinds, fans, thermostats, sensors

Also paired with

Your other home apps Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa keep working

A light group's controls with a brightness slider, color wheel, and saved colors

Lights, properly Brightness, a color wheel, white temperature, and swatches you can overwrite with your own colors.
Groups and scenes Turn several bulbs into one tile, and save scenes from how your lights look right now.
More than lights Plugs, switches, locks, blinds, fans, thermostats, and temperature, humidity, motion, contact, and leak sensors.
Lives in the tray All Lights Off and your scenes are a right-click away, and it can start with Windows.
Backups Export your pairings, rooms, groups, and scenes to one file and restore them on a new PC.

Before you install

Your PC needs to be on the same network as your devices.
Cameras, doorbells, Apple TV, and HomePod aren't supported.
Light controls are hardware-tested. Other device types have implemented controls or readings but haven't been tested on real hardware yet.
Add a device with the pairing code from the app it's already set up in. In Apple Home that's the accessory's settings, then Turn On Pairing Mode. RyHome can't do Bluetooth setup, so brand new devices need setting up there first.
Windows Firewall asks about Node.js the first time. That's RyHome's engine, so allow it on private networks.
It isn't code signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first run. Click More info, then Run anyway.

RyMessage

Less reaching for your phone.

Read, reply, and get back to what you were doing. RyMessage brings your iMessage and SMS conversations to Windows through a small companion server on your Mac.

Download for Windows View on GitHub

RyMessage showing a group conversation with reactions and replies

How it works

Your PC The RyMessage app

Network or Tailscale

Your Mac The RyMessage server, running at login

Reads and sends

Messages Your iMessage and SMS conversations

Notifications that float New texts slide in at the top of your screen, even with the window closed to the tray.
The good stuff Incoming tapbacks, threaded replies, live edits and unsends all render properly, plus jumbo emoji and :shortcode: autocomplete.
Photos, videos, files Drag them in, paste them, or pick them, and voice and video messages play inline.
Your own sounds Upload a notification sound, then trim it and fade it right in the app.

Before you install

You need a Mac that stays on and signed in to Messages. Run the server's install script there and it prints a pairing code for the Windows app.
The PC and Mac need to reach each other. A private network like Tailscale works great.
Incoming tapbacks, threaded replies, edits, and unsends show up, but sending tapbacks or inline replies and editing or unsending your own texts from Windows aren't supported yet (Messages.app doesn't expose those cleanly).
It isn't code signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first run. Click More info, then Run anyway.