i get a buzzing noise from my LIFX Z strips that is proportionate to how bright they are. they are being used as backlighting for a mirror so i keep it around 80% and it is really loud.

i can notice it anywhere in the 30 foot room it is in.

none of my other LED strips do this (hue, eve, etc).

is there any way to get rid of this?

I think this is from the KickStarter days? I remember buying a box off GU10’s and another box of the standard bulb.

The shipping was free.. the customs.. not so much. I tried arguing but yea.. never fight bureaucracy..

My lifx neon 16’ driver literally melted. Like wtf i payed over $100 for these and the driver just fucking melts??????

I'm buying an apartment where one of the previous owners put in a living room light - formerly a chandelier - using surface-mounted conduit and a surface-mounted ceiling box. Honestly this is sometimes the only way to put new ceiling fixtures in mid-century NYC co-ops without it being a gigantic hassle. I did it in my current co-op for a ceiling fan.

If I installed a LIFX Ceiling light on a surface-mounted box, would it look terrible? Would I be dissatisfied with the results?

I've always been a bit confused about the switch. On the one hand, it's a manual push-button switch that turns standard lamps on and off. On the other hand - it's also a WiFi device, is that right?

Can a single button both turn a "dumb" light on and ALSO trigger a LIFX scene?

And if the answer is "yes," then how would you turn the dumb light off without changing the LIFX scene?

Suppose you want to replace a single on-off switch with a two-button LIFX switch. Is it possible? How does the second button get power?

Thanks in advance for any knowledge!

Wanted to get some opinions on my setup as lights are currently flickering.

Transformer: 600W (14V & 15V Channels) Lights: 14 Lifx Spotlights

Channels: 14V = 1 Light / 70FT 15V = 13 Lights / Lights 1-4 @ 40FT, 5-12 @ 20FT, 13 @ 60FT ~~ 120FT Total

I think transformer isn’t powerful enough and due to distance. I see flickering on all 15V but also some lights are dimmer.

I'm exploring options for lighting a new apartment, and am considering a light bar in the bedroom. I've read a few reviews of the Beam saying that the magnetic connections between the segments are weak. How true is that? How would a light bar made up of multiple Beam segments stand up to aggressive cleaning? (Your typical NYC house-cleaner books four appointments a day and moves through your apartment like a feral cat with a dust-rag.)

@lifx do you have any ETA for

1. matter firmware for strips and switch
2. matter compatible downlight for AU
3. matter for indoor neonflex

I'm assuming if I use an Apple TV as a hub, I'll be able to control my LIFX Super Brights via HomeKit, just like I can with the "old" LIFX lights (previous-gen lights) without a hub of any kind. Only, I don't know how or if I can use an Apple TV that isn't mine. Can it be done? If so, then how?

And, am I correct that using Apple TV as a hub will enable me to operate my lights via HomeKit? I want to be able to tell Siri to set a specific brightness or a color or to simply turn a light on or off instead of relying on Shortcuts and Scenes. I can do this with the "old" lights, but not with these Super Brights.

Just got the new light installed

Any recommendations welcome

If anyone is a data nerd I found a page that does a very in-depth test of light characteristics for all bulb. Link to the lifx A21 report below.

I am not related to the website in any way. Just sharing for information.

https://optimizeyourbiology.com/smart-light/lifx-a21-supercolor/

I made this extension a while back for myself but never advertised it here. I figured other people here may find it useful. I probably won't update it anymore, but I still use it every day.

Features:

• Displays all LIFX lights from your LIFX account
• Toggle each light on/off individually
• Change each light's colors and brightness
• Choose any color you want from an RGB wheel, or color temperature
• Save a color you like as a preset

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lifx-lights-control/ednncgcboadecnjhknojhjomedbbjpkl

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lifx-lights-control/

I'm looking for advice on the best lights for my living room. Currently, I have a mix of LIFX and Hue lights throughout my house. In the living room, I use Hue BR30 bulbs, which max out at 650 lumens. However, with a 25-foot ceiling, these lights are not sufficient.

I prefer using one brand per room, ideally throughout the house, but this hasn't always worked out. I bought a few LIFX Nightvision BR30 bulbs when they first came out, but their connectivity issues have been disappointing. I dislike the reset method, which leads to occasional accidentaly resets, and after power outages, the bulbs sometimes become unresponsive.

While I prefer the brightness and color accuracy of LIFX, the reliability and stability of Hue is more appealing, especially since the lights are hard to reach. I haven't tried the new LIFX models, so I'm not sure if they're more reliable now, but I see they still use the same reset method. On a side note, I wish they would just switch to Matter over Thread already!

What does everyone recommend? I love LIFX and am willing to give them another shot, but should I stick with Hue despite their lower brightness and color accuracy?

Thanks!

Hi all. For the past several years I have used an old iPhone 7 on a dock in my kitchen as kinda a smart home controller. Whelp… it won’t charge anymore so I need an alternative. Ideally I’d like to mount an iPad on the wall but I really don’t want to spend. $800 on a remote control. I’m thinking I’ll just get a cheap android tablet but I literally have NO IDEA what to look for, what the differences are, if some would work better than others, nada. I literally just want to put my smart home apps on it, but I’m all in on the Apple ecosystem for devices, and Alexa for home assistant, and have literally never used an android device in my life... Anybody have any recommendations?

Are there any plans to change the smartthings integration to be local rather than via the cloud? I know I can install an edge driver and get local control, but I don't understand why the default integration is not for local control (considering it is much faster that way).

I have made a bunch of scenes in the LIFX app, but I'd like to add some of them to the Home app. I can't find an easy way to add it to the Home app other than making it again from scratch in the Home app itself.

Is there an easy way to send LIFX scenes to the Home app for adding?

I believe the LIFX A21 bulb uses the LCM4 controller:

https://fccid.io/SYW-LCM4/Internal-Photos/InternalPhotos-6752872.pdf

It's based on Espressif's ESP32-C6 SoC:

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c6

ESP32-C6 combines 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n/ax), Bluetooth 5 (LE), and IEEE 802.15.4 radio connectivity, which is vital for making the Thread and Zigbee protocols available in a variety of cases of application development.

As the chipset is capable of Matter over Thread are there any plans to enable Matter over Thread on existing LCM4 products?

I noticed there would be Matter updates for products like Beam. But I have no idea how to identify if it uses the 3rd gen controller just from the Amazon product page. 🤷 Official guides say you would need to check the firmware version, which means you have to buy it to find out.

Just wondering if it works with the LIFX smart switch similar to the way it works with the LIFX smart bulbs.

Has any brave soul done a tear down of the neonflex yet to see what kind of led strip is being used in it and how it is mounted?

The reason why i am asking is because I have the hue outdoor strip which is also rated at 800 lumens but I have removed it from its silicone housing (there was a video of how to do that on YouTube) and it is insanely bright. It is even putting my nanolead essentials strip (which is rated at 2000 lumens) to shame. The silicone diffuser blocks a lot of light. This got me wondering how bright would the lifx strip be without the housing?

I got 2 sets of Z strips from Best Buy open box, one set didn't have a HomeKit code and the other did. I tried scanning the QR code and after searching for a few minutes it said the accessory could not be found.

Both of the sets popped up when adding new device but when I clicked on them nothing happened but now they aren't popping up at all. I can see them on my WiFi (on iOS) and when I connect to them manually the arrow that's supposed to be green in the "Setup Manually" tab stays greyed out.

I'm at a loss. I have an XB7 Xfinity Gateway router which unfortunately doesn't let me switch which band I am on so I'm guessing that could be an issue.

I tried resetting both of the strips and that didn't work either.

Are there any troubleshooting steps I missed or am I just SOL?

Does anyone have a zone map for this product handy?

So, I have a model train room with LIFX strip lighting.

The software uses python scripts to control the model trains.

I would also like to control the lights in the room.

I have a script made.

But I'm ending up with a syntax error, no viable alternative at input after trying the HTTP call.

my guess is that I have no properly installed the library for LIFX control called 'devices'.

I found the PIP.exe file and ran

pip install devices

the note say that it installed the requests-2.32.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata

after this... well it does not look like it did anything for me.

Can anyone help?

All I want to do is say energy on the light costs, by turning the lights off when the train layout is not in use

see GitHub - mclarkk/lifxlan: Python library for accessing LIFX devices locally using the official LIFX LAN protocol.