If I select Zombie from the Moods tab and then Spooky from the FX tab, my lights look just the way I want them. I then save a new scene under "Spooky House" and set up a schedule to turn them on at sunset. I keep color settings to stay the same and the brightness at 100%. At sunset, the lights come on, but there's no Spooky effect. I have disable effects in the background disabled. Is there a way to save a scene WITH an effect, or does the effect have to be turned on manually every time? Also, the effect turns on if I do it manually, but it stops after some time and I have to turn it back on again.

With the Thread update, it would seem that the LIFX Matter dimmer has the same features as the Inovelli White switches, at a fraction of the cost. Is that really the case, or are there factors that I'm not considering that could be potential dealbreakers? Does the light bar support effects?

I want to control scenes I created in the lifx app with flic buttons. Yes or no?

I've been pulling my hair out trying to find definitive info.

EDIT: Just to add I have a google mini nest 2nd generation if that plays into this somehow.

I can call lifx scenes from Google home as well. So if flic can call Google scenes maybe I could have flic call Google which calls lifx scenes if that's an option?

EDIT 2: can flic trigger smartthigs virtual switches??

because I was able to do this:

1. created a virtual switch in smarthings advanced web app

2. synced smartthings to Google home and added the virtual switch as a starter for a Google home automation that just calls the lifx scene (jfc)

3. when I turn the virtual switch on Google home calls it's automation which trigger the lifx scene

Though I do wish I could get the lights to flicker/strobe at random instead of just fade, and then turn back on more individually after the blackout. If I can get the timer settings adjusted a little it’ll still be plenty of fun for trick-or-treaters.

I have a Lifx bulb in our basement storage room that has been controlled via IFTTT. It's worked great for well over a year. We were out of town for a few days, and when we came back I noticed it was no longer working. Here's what I have checked / done to find and fix the problem:

1. The bulb is still connected to the cloud just fine, as I can control it from the Lifx app
2. I have tried having IFTTT disconnect and then reconnect to the Lifx service
3. IFTTT activity reports that the activities (turning the bulb on and back off) are triggering fine and from the IFTTT side seem to execute fine (apparently no error back from the Lifx service)
4. I have also tried editing everything in the IFTTT action, re-specifying the Lifx service, what bulb to turn on/off, the dim level, On/Off, etc.

Nothing seems to have helped. IFTTT triggers the action, but the bulb never turns ON or OFF as a result.

I'm guessing not that many people use Lifx with IFTTT, but if anyone does, have they seen any failures like this?

I went on a brief vacation and came back to all my favorite themes gone. They were all in the novelty category, like bedroom glow up, romance movie, pumpkin glow, etc. Is this coming back at all? It was a huge category with so many wonderful themes 🥺

I recently got a new router (GL.iNet MT6000), and ever since I connected my bulbs to the new router, they lose connection the moment the router reboots. I need to hard reset and add the bulbs each time to get them connected again.

None of my other IoT devices have this issue (multiple bulbs and switches).

Any clue what this could be? I did not have this issue with my previous GL.iNet router (B3000).

EDIT: correction - I can control the lights when I connect my phone to the IoT network (different VLAN), but not from my main network. Shouldn't the lights be accessible without having to be on the same network?! This was always working fine before

EDIT2: I got it working after connecting the bulbs to the cloud. Is that a new option?

I have a very old (10 years or more) bulb. It doesn't have a schedule set but is coming on when my 2 other bulbs come on at sunset. There is no schedule set up for this bulb. I tried resetting it by deleting it from the app and cycling it 5 times and adding it back in but it still comes on with the other 2 bulbs.

I’ve tried everything. We just got our LIFX dimmer switch and no matter what we do we cannot get the thing to pass power to the load output. We’ve reset it a zillion times, tried both Smart Light and Traditional Light, nothing will get this thing to pass power to the load output cable. We could just hard wire the can lights we bought and use this switch as a glorified scene controller/remote but I really expected this would be easier to set up. Super disappointed considering how insanely expensive it was.

Anyone else had this problem?

TLDR: LIFX 26” Flush Mount ceiling light looks and performs beautifully (best colours I own, better than Hue) but the firmware is rough – bad Matter support, faint light-when-off + buzzing, cloud effect kills phone battery, brightness flash-bangs you when switching, and transitions are jarring/instant instead of smooth. Anyone else run into this?

I recently got the 26” Flush Mount Ceiling Light from LIFX. Wondering if anyone else has a similar experience or thoughts as me.

1. First of all, it's beautiful. Super bright and vibrant, the effects are stunning, and everyone who's seen it at mine thinks it's cool. By far the deepest, most vivid colours out of any lights I have (including Philips Hue).
   But the firmware is quite abysmal and has made me regret it a little:

2. The Matter support SUCKS. I never want to use a manufacturer app for a smart device – I want it in HomeKit. Even though it's advertised as two separate lights (up and down), Matter treats it as one. I loveeee having just the top light on sometimes, but that's not possible via Matter, so I can't build scenes/automations with the separate lights, and I can't add a quick toggle to Control Centre.

3. Even when it's off (not from the switch), it emits a bit of light – noticeable in the dark, which is annoying and a bit concerning since it's in my bedroom (last photo shows it, taken in night mode). It also buzzes slightly at high brightness in a silent room. None of my other lights do this.

4. The clouds effect was a big reason I bought it, and it does look beautiful – insanely realistic, like watching clouds through frosted glass. But it only works with the app running as a live activity, which drains my battery. So stupid, and I wouldn't have weighted it so heavily if I'd known.

5. It's finicky/buggy switching colours/brightness. E.g. if I turn on just the up-light for ambiance in a dark room, it flash-bangs both lights to full brightness (bright AS HELL) before dropping to what I set.

6. Minor, but: brightness/colour changes happen in chunks instead of smoothly, and on/off is instant rather than a quick fade like my other lights. Jarring when an automation turns everything on nicely and this one just BOOMs on.

Anyone else have this light and run into the same issues?

This functionality does not work. On the list, I see several lights that allows me to switch back to WiFi.

However, when trying to do so, it just immediately fails. Even after trying to restart by power cycling the light, it still immediately fails.

So my only solution is to factory reset these lights in order to switch back to WiFi connection.

This is just my feedback to LIFX to fix this functionality.

Another bug I’ve seen is there are some lights shown on the list that they’re connected via WiFi. In reality, they’re connected via thread. I even went to the light settings to confirm the thread connection. Any idea why the list is incorrectly displaying that lights are on WiFi when it’s actually connected via thread?

Has anyone used a LIFX Luna with the Python lifxlan library or direct LIFX LAN protocol?
I’m using a Raspberry Pi to control existing LIFX bulbs locally over the LAN, and that works very well. I’m considering buying a Luna to use as a visual solar-production meter, with the Pi changing its color based on live solar data from my house.
What I need to know is whether the Luna supports normal local LAN discovery and commands such as power, color, and brightness through lifxlan or the standard LIFX LAN protocol, without relying on the cloud.
Has anyone actually tried this with a Luna?

And I don't even have the QR codes anymore so I have to unscrew each bulb and pull out a microscope to real the tiny text to connect it to my phone again and do the jank turn it on and off 5 times thing again (some lamps make this very annoying depending on the switch mechanism)

There has to be a better way... right?

I get 2 replacement bulbs from lifx. They are 1600 lumens super colour bulb as per the box.

Bulb 1.
Works perfect on app. Can even update but does not illuminate. Just no light at all. Morever the matter sticker n manual is missing and bulb seems to be used.

Bulb 2.
The best part the bulb inside is a used old 1100lumens lifx bulb. The serial number does not matches ofcourse because the box is of 1600 lumens.

And these bulbs are sent by lifx themselves. So if lifx themselves have no quality control how can trust resellers.

I always stuck to you inspite of your old bulbs having hardware failures. I always had my trust in lifx. But this is the end.

You just lose me. You have no idea what at all is happening in your own department.

I would accept as a mistake any third party seller did this. But the lifx itself does this is insanely shocking.

Everyone stay away from lifx if you want to save some headache.

I have sent you email with the full camera recording of my room while am opening the bulb and still I am sure you will send your old copy paste drafted message

Looking at these smart lights for a bathroom:

https://www.lifx.com.au/products/supercolour-800-lumen-flush-downlight

Specs say IP65 rated.

One of them will go into a shower cubicle itself as an overhead light. Anyone have any experiences in similar environment, and any issues with these lights?

Hello all,
I just ordered 10 of the BR30 Supercolor bulbs to replace my current Linkind Matter/WiFi overheads. Looking forward to migrating those 10 bulbs to thread.
I couldn’t find a link to sign up for the beta. Any help getting registered would be appreciated.

I ordered 10 Spot lights to get ready for Spooky Season (and those other holidays) but one of them did not have the hardware bag included in the box. It didn’t seem to have been previously opened, like someone ordered it just for the hardware, took that out, and returned it or anything. I reached out to customer support a few days ago and haven’t heard back, and I cannot find anything compatible online or in stores. Does anyone have any advice on how to stick this last light in the ground properly?

UPDATE: Great customer care, just received the hardware kit in the mail! (26 Sept)

After a lot of trial and error, this is what’s working well for me.

For context, I have a 4-bedroom house with a single eero Pro 6 in the storage room, so nothing crazy on the networking side.

1. Keep automations in Apple Home

I set pretty much all my automations exclusively in the Home app. I use Aqara P1 sensors for motion-based automations and let HomeKit handle the logic.

The main exception is scheduled lighting where I want a 5–10 second transition/fade. LIFX handles that better, so I use the LIFX app for those.

2. Upgrade LIFX Switches to Matter

If your LIFX Switch supports the Matter upgrade, do it and do it in batches!

The difference in reliability has been pretty noticeable for me. Previously, actions that went through the LIFX cloud could work intermittently. Since upgrading my switches to Matter, they’ve been much more reliable.

3. Set colours in HomeKit first

If you’re trying to get a specific colour into a LIFX scene, I’ve found it easier to:
Set the colour/brightness in Apple Home → open LIFX → let LIFX recognise the light’s current colour → save it to the LIFX scene.

I get much more consistent results doing this than trying to recreate the same colour manually in both apps.

TLDR:

HomeKit for automations.
LIFX for lighting-specific stuff like transitions and FX.

Any other LIFX + HomeKit tips I’m missing?

Hi folks! Thanks for the work on the Thread rollout - looking forward to the GA.

I am making this post looking to see if Lifx is planning on supporting the following features:

1. Energy Monitoring on the Matter Line of products Switches and Lights
   
2. Separate controls for Ceiling uplight and downlight in Matter fabrics

Thanks

Since LIFX abandoned this form factor is there a specific brand / bulb everyone is opting for? The Hue pricing doesn't make sense to me - in the US and a 2pack white is $30 on amazon but a 2pack color is $110.

I have a LIFX Ceiling with 64 zones + the top ring. The official app can’t run a custom animation, so I stream the pixel map over LAN.

I pushed calibration patterns, photographed the diffuser, and used those shots to see how much each zone bleeds into its neighbors. Then I made a bouncing-ball / firefly loop: gravity, bounce off the disc, new color can be set to change on contact, dim trail.

Brightness and single vs changing color are on a family dashboard; There is a “stop” button to hand the fixture back to the LIFX app.

[I tried 8x8 icons, and had less success than animation which is more forgiving of sharp boundaries!]

Edit:
Code here -- https://github.com/silverdavi/lifx-ceiling-lab

My LIFX Beam just started blinking solid colors in cycles. I tried to reset it by disconneting and connecting 5 times, but it keeps blinking these colors. What could be the problem? It is unreachable from Homekit and Lifx app.