r/lifx

Total of 6 products from Lifx. It has just come to my attention two power supplies from the light strips have stopped working. Reached out to lifx who have no interest because they have passed their two year warranty. They have no products to replace it with unless i get a new kit.

These products must be designed for failure.

I see it's rather hard to find a 24a 12v female power supply. Is there anyone who has come across them?

Located in Australia.

Pretty frustrating on behalf of Lifx as a company. *Shakes head in a disappointing manner

I’ve always wanted a proper spatial music visualiser for smart lights, but for the living room.

Not just “lights react to sound,” and not something locked to one ecosystem; I wanted an app where lights can be placed in a virtual layout of the room and then controlled in real time based on live music analysis and their actual physical position.

So I started building it a year ago, and now it's time to show it you guys for constructive judgment time.

The goal is for iPhone, iPad, and macOS (Apple Silicone only) to become a real spatial light show controller: effects moving across your room, mapped to where your lights are, with music driving how everything behaves, creating scenes with effects in different parts of the room, storing multiple room configs etc

I’ve put up a small site for it and wanted to share it here because I feel like this is the kind of thing some people in here might appreciate.

Would this be something you’d use?

Post pics if you have them!

Open to inspiration

Hello! I’ve had a LIFX bulb on my covered front porch for over 2 years and it has never worked properly. The schedule doesn’t work and the themes don’t play continuously. I’ve contacted support but can’t find a fix for this.

I have Kasa bulbs everywhere else and love them but I’m looking for a smart bulb that also has themes like LIFX; colors that change by themselves for a cool effect.

I’ve googled to no avail. Does anyone know of any?

@lifx any updates on when the oval ceiling light and the wall lantern will hit Australian shores?

so i’ve just got a lifx lightbulb i bought 5 years ago working again, i had to do it manually through my wifi settings, as i don’t have the box/manual anymore, its saying it’s now connected, and it’s showing up in my app. however it’s not responding at all; changing colours, dimming, turning off, etc. i’ve tried turning it off and on again, as well as my phone, also turning my wifi off and on again.

any one have any ideas how i could fix this?

I have a new Everyday Light Strip and added it to a routine I have to turn lights on and off, but it is ignoring the routine. I have removed it and added it back, created a new routine, applied it to the light strip, and it ignores that also.

Any suggestions?

I have around 30 LIFX bulbs. Primarily mix of the PAR38s and the A19s. They’ve been working quite well so far, but then around a week ago, one of my A19’s randomly started dropping off my network. None of my other bulbs are having any problems. If I restart the lightbulb, it’ll come back online for a few hours and then go back offline again. I’ve already tried resetting it.

Is there anyone from LIFX support on this subreddit? I’ve submitted two requests for support, and the only thing I get is a canned AI response. But when I reply to that email, it seems to go nowhere. I remember the warranty request process being a lot simpler in the past.

Haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere however I recently noticed that switch configuration in the app has an additional option now. It used to be that “Matter” and “Cloud” were the only two options however now there’s a this’d option “Local”. This is handy if you have a non LIFX (or smart bulb) device attached to the circuit, and you just want to control the circuit directly on the switch rather than going vial the cloud or local wifi wifi matter. I feel like this was available with the buttons on the Luna and maybe they’ve decided to extend it to the switch as well.

Please consider adding an option that would only allow a button to be pressed during a time frame/schedule. This would also need to apply to "presses".

For example, button 1, presses 1 and 2 could be trigged at any time, but press 3 (long press) could only be triggered on certain days and time frames.

The idea behind this is, in my commercial setting, I have the lighting on three schedules for each shift, based on time of day. I have a two button switch where one button controls a brighter "cleaning" mode. If night shift presses that button, they needed a different button to take them back to the night setting. The issue I have now is that employees on day shift, press the night shift button to make the room dark.