diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ca0c737..6aab309 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -213,6 +213,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dbus-codegen"
+version = "0.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a76dc35ce83e4e9fa089b4fabe66c757b27bd504dc2179c97a01b36d3e874fb0"
+dependencies = [
+ "clap",
+ "xml-rs",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "dbus-tokio"
 version = "0.7.6"
@@ -993,6 +1003,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "chrono-tz",
  "dbus",
+ "dbus-codegen",
  "dbus-tokio",
  "eyre",
  "local-ip-address",
@@ -1742,3 +1753,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "xml-rs"
+version = "0.8.19"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0fcb9cbac069e033553e8bb871be2fbdffcab578eb25bd0f7c508cedc6dcd75a"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index eb6770e..4cbca8f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", features = ["time"]}
 toml = "0.8"
 uuid = { version = "1.4", features = [ "v4" ] }
 
+[build-dependencies]
+dbus-codegen = { version = "0.10", default-features = false }
+
 [profile.release]
 incremental = false
 codegen-units = 1
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8fbd7e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::env;
+use std::fs;
+use std::io::Read;
+use std::io::Write;
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use dbus_codegen::ConnectionType;
+use dbus_codegen::GenOpts;
+
+fn main() {
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=DBUS_XML_PATH");
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs");
+
+    let required_files = HashSet::from(["org.freedesktop.hostname1.xml"]);
+    let required_interfaces = required_files
+        .iter()
+        .map(|name| name.strip_suffix(".xml").unwrap().to_string())
+        .collect();
+
+    let opts = GenOpts {
+        connectiontype: ConnectionType::Nonblock,
+        methodtype: None,
+        interfaces: Some(required_interfaces),
+        ..Default::default()
+    };
+
+    let out_dir_str = env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();
+    let out_dir = Path::new(&out_dir_str);
+
+    let mut generated_file = fs::File::create(out_dir.join("generated.rs")).unwrap();
+
+    let dbus_paths_raw =
+        env::var("DBUS_XML_PATH").unwrap_or("/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces".to_string());
+    dbus_paths_raw
+        .split(':')
+        .map(fs::read_dir)
+        .flat_map(Result::unwrap)
+        .map(Result::unwrap)
+        .filter(|file| required_files.contains(file.file_name().to_str().unwrap()))
+        .for_each(|in_file| {
+            println!(
+                "cargo:rerun-if-changed={}",
+                in_file.path().to_str().unwrap()
+            );
+
+            let mut xml = String::new();
+            fs::File::open(in_file.path())
+                .unwrap()
+                .read_to_string(&mut xml)
+                .unwrap();
+
+            let code = dbus_codegen::generate(&xml, &opts).unwrap();
+
+            let module_name = in_file
+                .file_name()
+                .into_string()
+                .unwrap()
+                .strip_suffix(".xml")
+                .unwrap()
+                .replace('.', "_");
+            let out_path = out_dir.join(module_name.clone() + ".rs");
+            fs::File::create(out_path)
+                .unwrap()
+                .write_all(code.as_bytes())
+                .unwrap();
+
+            generated_file
+                .write_all(
+                    format!(
+                        r#"mod {module_name} {{
+                            include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/{module_name}.rs"));
+                        }}
+                        pub use {module_name}::*;
+                        "#
+                    )
+                    .as_bytes(),
+                )
+                .unwrap();
+        })
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index a181cf9..62f2f57 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@
   outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils }:
     let supportedSystems = [ "x86_64-linux" "aarch64-linux" ];
     in (utils.lib.eachSystem supportedSystems (system:
-      let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
+      let
+        pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
+        inherit (pkgs) lib;
+        dbusPaths = lib.makeSearchPathOutput "out" "share/dbus-1/interfaces"
+          (with pkgs; [ systemd ]);
       in rec {
         packages.rustybar = with pkgs;
           rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
@@ -21,6 +25,8 @@
             nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
             buildInputs = [ dbus ];
 
+            DBUS_XML_PATH = dbusPaths;
+
             meta = with lib; {
               homepage = "https://github.com/mildlyfunctionalgays/rustybar";
               description = "swaybar/i3bar command in Rust";
@@ -45,6 +51,7 @@
               rustPackages.rustfmt
               rustPackages.clippy
             ];
+            DBUS_XML_PATH = dbusPaths;
             RUST_SRC_PATH =
               "${rustPackages.rustPlatform.rustLibSrc}/lib/rustlib";
           };
diff --git a/src/generated.rs b/src/generated.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd0ae94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/generated.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#![allow(clippy::needless_borrow)]
+
+include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/generated.rs"));
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 8f6552b..13ddb0f 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 mod config;
+mod generated;
 mod output;
 mod tile;
 mod tiles;
diff --git a/src/tiles/hostname.rs b/src/tiles/hostname.rs
index c4be8a5..933720e 100644
--- a/src/tiles/hostname.rs
+++ b/src/tiles/hostname.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use crate::config::HostnameConfig;
+use crate::generated::OrgFreedesktopHostname1;
 use crate::output::OutputChannel;
 use crate::tile::Block;
-use dbus::nonblock::stdintf::org_freedesktop_dbus::Properties;
 use dbus::nonblock::{Proxy, SyncConnection};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pub async fn hostname(
     );
     let mut interval = tokio::time::interval(config.update);
     loop {
-        let reply = proxy.get("org.freedesktop.hostname1", "Hostname");
+        let reply = proxy.hostname();
         let hostname: String = reply.await?;
         output
             .send(Block {