Understand first off that I am brand new to LIFX as a company and I’ve dealt with a SINGULAR BULB for a little of an hour.

I moved in to my apartment about 5 years ago and slowly started turning it into a smart home I could be proud of.

I started out with HUE bulbs and strips and quickly found that I HATED THEM in fact I only have the strips left in my office as they haven’t gone out and are exactly what I need for the space.

However the reason I got rid of the HUE bulbs were because of the fact they didn’t have any effects. Which is something I wanted as going through the house with gentle candlelight is just THE mood

The company I moved to was called VOCOlinc and god I loved them!

Until they all burned out due to possible heat death. The company said to have bulbs exposed so you can’t even have frosted glass and when I showed them my back patio light that has had one in rain sleet snow sunshine or whatever AND is covered up by glass on every side but the bottom their response was “oh that shouldn’t be working…”

Meanwhile my bathroom lights that are all exposed as well as my kitchen lights and even lamps around the house with exposed bulbs have wouldn’t you know it burned the out.

Now what I mean by burned out is the bulb goes into a strobe mode that indicates it can’t find the network but as many times as I reset them and try to reconnect them to my router and HomePod it just won’t connect once the bulbs go out like that I have given up.

I even offered to send them all the bulbs I had under their name so they could do quality research and make a better product.

QUE LIFX

I have had this bulb exactly one hour and loved every feature from the patterns to the ways the bulbs can behave to schedules and even how the color picker is design (although it’s missing a hex code input) and everything worked in the first thirty minutes until…

I tried to turn off the light via Siri…

It turns off for exactly one second and then it just turned back on and once it did it stopped responding to anything. In both the app and HomeKit. It’s either the bulb is on and stays on or it doesn’t you can’t remotely turn it off or back on again remotely without running into issues.

What’s worse is I researched this issue and someone solved it by cutting out HomeKit and used Home-bridge but that’s a $300 module that shouldn’t have to be bought if you advertise that they work seamlessly out of the box.

So now I have no idea what to do since these bulbs were supposed to be top of the line. I started out with one and after an hour I want to return it. Especially since the bulb appears to have come with a service attached to it similar to a virus because I don’t used “FIET Electric” as a service to control my devices.

I’ve contacted support and if they can’t tell me what is up and get it working seamlessly I’m returning it.

In the meantime is SOMEONE ANYONE can give me a solution that isn’t hundreds of dollars I’d appreciate it.

I bought a color bulb today and it was perfectly packed with three round clear seals on top with no signs of being opened. But once I open them the top of the bulb seems to be scratched a lot. Is it normal?

I’ve been to the 6 nearest Home Depots and have found 13 Downlight Color units that are marked as Matter compatible. The other approximately 60 units in stock at those locations aren’t marked as supporting matter.

I need 3 more of these lights. It doesn’t appear Amazon sells this product to my location (in Southern California) for the single unit, four or five pack.

Does anyone have any idea how I can buy the three more lights I need?

• no longer responds to Alexa command with indication it is ‘not found
• not showing in the Lifx app. I haven’t used the Lifx app for years. Current one does not seem to have a device list section, just groups.
• My router app (eero) shows the light as on the network
• disconnecting and reconnecting does not work. There is no device network for me to jump on (ios settins>wifi)

I’ve had my LIFX ecosystem for 5ish years. Never had any issues with connectivity. Recently, my devices furthest from my modem have become partially or totally unresponsive. They work fine when I bring them closer to my gateway. Why this suddenly has become an issue after so many years is beyond me. My current modem/router is an XFinity XB6 gateway, which again has worked fine up until now. Not sure if there is more WiFi congestion in my building than there used to be causing a reduction in coverage or what. This model also doesn’t allow you to switch the WiFi channel. Apparently it automatically selects the most optimum channel depending. I’m debating just buying a separate modem/router but thought I’d check for recommendation with y’all before making any decision. I was trying to contact XFinity to swap out my hardware to see if a different one would work better but I can’t get a fucking human on the phone to save my life, and when I go through their AI Assistant and FINALLY get it to offer to put me in touch with an agent or schedule a call, I just get an error message and told to try again later for both options. So fuck them…

Whatcha got? I just want something that I can plug in and it works. I don’t want to setup a big custom network environment. I just want to give it an SSID and a password and be done with it.

I’ve got a growing collection of down lights (the chunky ones) that have lost a single colour but the white LEDs are still fine. Moreover, software is working fine too.

Has anyone attempted a teardown of these? Could there be a way to repair them?

Maybe there are ways to reuse these as white-only bulbs?

Suggestions please!

I am in need of just new LIFX strip controller and power supply.

Is this something I can purchase through Support or?

I’d submit a support request but I don’t want to wait few days to find out that this isn’t an option or something. Hoping anyone here had an experience with purchasing power supply and controller for Z strip

Attention geeks, nerds, and other crash test dummies: the first alpha release of my LIFX Ceiling Extras custom integration is now available to delight and amuse you: https://github.com/Djelibeybi/hass-lifx-ceiling.

You'll need to add the repo to HACS manually and as there are only pre-release versions, you may need to manually specify the version to download.

This is not for folks with house occupants who are easily displeased.

The LIFX Ceiling is hellishly bright and some edge cases may see it come on at full brightness. Check the README.md on GitHub for recommended usage methods.

When or even if this will eventually be merged into the official core integration is not currently known.

Edited to add:

1. This requires at least one LIFX Ceiling: https://www.lifx.com/collections/ceiling
2. The lifx.set_state action does _not_ (and cannot) work with the uplight or downlight. Only light.turn_on and light.turn_off will work. I will consider adding a lifx_ceiling.set_state to this integration if there's enough interest.

@lifx would it be possible to add the colour palette back to the app? While I enjoy using the new colour wheel, I do miss the simplicity of the old palette. Can it be added back, just like the swatches for the whites?

If you do add, can I suggest that you do it based on hue and saturation i.e. Hue changes as you go vertically and saturation reduces as you go horizontally.

Hello!

We are having trouble sorting out how to sync 2 different Led Strips together (same brand; LifX). We were able to plug them together and they turn on and off together, but I cannot dim, change the color, etc the new light. We tried pressing the button on the controller, holding it, one press, double tap. We also tried unplugging it and replugging it in multiple times. We tried using the code/QR in the pamphlet and that didn’t work, we tried the usual wifi as well.

We can’t seem to figure it out. Any help is appreciated! Thanks :-)

Really just want to make my room full of RGB but disappointed with what Philips Hue and others RGB brightness offers

I also seen the new 1600 lumen bulbs, are those worth it? Is the RGB brightness on the LIFX bulbs actually that much brighter?

I have been dealing with these 2 separate issues for about a month. And keep going in circles with support with no resolution.

So I have had both of my lifx z light strips for many years from about 2017/2018

These issues below happened within days from each other

Light strip #1 the issue at hand was both me and my son told Alexa a command multiple times at the same time "Alexa turn lights off, Alexa turn lights on" some error or glitch occured with the commands but when the lights turned on one segment of lights was out, not lit up. So the strip section was 1 section lighted, next section not lighted, last section was lighted. Spoke with Lifx. Tried various trouble shooting methods, And they just said that the light strip is old. But I don't believe this as a section works.

Lightstrip #2 just does not connect anymore to the lifx app. After dealing with issue above, I was unplugging both light strips and I figured to go ahead and remove them from the cloud to go ahead and reset both of them which I regret doing because by me resetting it took away the connection for this light strip and at that point the light strip has never been able to connect back no matter what I do the app does not find it. What's very weird is after he said and pulling the plug out a hundred times in and out resetting removing it from the cloud through the website. Deleting the app trying on various devices. Android iPhone I seen that when I go to set it up it shows the lights there, it does the connection as the lights blink and then it goes to processing and eventually times out and says retry there was an error.

It is important to know that my modem and router has always been the same over the last 6 years. Never had an issue. The Alexa has been the same for the last 2 or 3 years. Never had an issue. The lights have always been in the same spot. Never had an issue, never touched them or moved them. My internet speed and connection and company has always been the same. I tried resetting multiple ways and still no luck. Customer support said it looks like a connectivity issue. I put the white box from the power strip. I put it literally on top of the router and still not found.

I don't know what to do. I love these lifx lights as these lights are attached to my ceiling and they light up the living room very nicely. Both light strips. I cannot take these lights out and swap them or move them around as they're stuck to the ceiling and I don't want to unstick them.

What else is there to do besides me buying new light strips and possibly going with a different company? Because as I'm reading a lot on this forum connectivity is a huge huge issue with any of their lights from 2017 all the way up to up until now. However, I never experienced this issue ever. I never had an issue with connectivity. I never had to reconnected nothing. They were always connected, never lost connection.

I have 2 light strips which are 9.9 ft each.

Any help will be appreciated

I have four eero max 7 all wired on the 10g backhaul except for one on a 2.5g backhaul to the router. My house is four stories and brick so it's easy to space them out. I typically can get perfect responses from, for example, "turn on the kitchen" which is 13 bulbs. Something like our "goodnight" scene however, turns off over 30 bulbs and dims and few others. We often see many bulbs go no response around bedtime.

Has anyone else experienced issues like this? Should I switch to a hub model like Phillips Hue or IKEA? I already have the IKEA hub.

I have two LIFX Mini bulbs and two LIFX Color 800 bulbs. I can reach all of them via the phone app. But when I use the lifxlan python package, it only 'sees' the two LIFX Color 800 bulbs. What gives? also just tried aio-lifx package and same issue. the "Mini" bulbs" show firmware of v4.10. the Color 800 bulbs show firmware of 3.9. Why would the MINI bulbs have different firmware vs Color 800s?

My tile lights recently broke down on me. Pretty sure it’s the psu, contacted support and they didn’t give me any information whatsoever or even a 3rd party psu source. My only goal is to get this thing on with app support if possible. I can soulder anything if needed, but just need help for this.

Thanks

Still have a question lingering in my mind... I have like 8 Govee RGBIC strip lights, and 1 LIFX strip light 120" with Polychrome, and a LIFX ceiling light too.

I have two lamps with LIFX bulbs. They are plugged into outlets that are always hot. I have a switch on the wall that isn’t used (it can turn off outlet on other side of room if needed). The switch on the wall has no neutral wire. I’d like to have a switch to activate a default brightness in HomeKit or scene in LIFX so that I can have a physical button to turn on off the lights like a dumb light, but always remain in standby for voice/scenes. I’ve scoured the depths of the internet to see a history of Pop buttons and flic buttons, but would like to just have a switch installed.

Can a LIFX switch that requires a neutral be used wired to just function as a trigger for these functions? Is there another smart switch that doesn’t require a hub that would also work in this configuration without a neutral wire?

Is there a certain batch/serial number that seems to be consistently working as “expected”? I’d love to find a non buzzer for our nursery, currently with the buzz the WAF is terrible

I just wanna see how does it look like in the inside. Because this thing flashbangs me every single time it turns on. (i use this as my alarm every day)

I have had multiple sessions eating up hours of my life going over minutia when the fact that my $150 Beam fixture won’t connect to my 2.4GHz only SSID with no encryption because support won’t replace or even let me buy a ~$15 controller chip cable! Without good support any product is crap!!! You are about to permanently lose a customer.

The little stupid arms don't stay on, as soon as you get one on the other pops off, they've gouged out my ceiling and once you finally do get them on the light doesn't slide onto the hooks.

I'm about ready to toss this thing out a window.

Edit: After like 20 minutes of trying to get it on I managed to do it by forcefully bending the small arms in so they'd stop popping off -.-

Space Themes are great, but need the rest of the solar system.

Let's get:

Planets: • Mercury • Venus • Jupiter • Uranus • Neptune • Saturn

Others: • Pluto • Ganymede • Europa • IO • Phoebe • Enceladus • Astroid Belt • Milky Way

With the ceiling light, is it possible to exclude the uplight from being activated by FX?

As an example, the Morph FX look awesome with the downlight but the uplight has these abrupt and harsh color transitions which diminish the overall smooth morph effect.

@lifx are there any plans of launching string lights like hue Festiva any time this year?