Image: github.com · SolarBar screenshot
A Logitech K750 solar keyboard monitor for Apple Silicon Macs
A CLI tool and Swift menu bar widget replace the outdated Logitech Solar utility, written with Claude Code in about an hour.
Credits
- Reddit poster HappyFunBall007 Source ↗
- Repository account wyllys66 Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
The old Solar utility for the Logitech K750 solar keyboard is out of date and unsupported on newer M-series MacBooks, so the poster wrote a replacement with Claude Code.
Most of the hour was spent hunting for the right USB commands to send to the keyboard; Claude (Opus 4.7) wrote most of the code. The result is two open-source tools: a command-line tool and a status bar monitor widget in Swift.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Solar Keyboard monitor utilityReddit poster: HappyFunBall007Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Solar Keyboard monitor utility (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: wyllys66
Linked in the post.