Hello Lifx. May I please request a feature to make replacing bulbs easier? I imagine some way to add a new Lifx product, but to be given an option to replace an existing product in the network, so it can automatically take the old product’s name, settings, and automations. Thank you Lifx. Love you. Hugs and kisses.

I just installed two LIFX ceiling lights (15 inch. White Indoor Integrated LED Flush Mount Multi-Color Smart Wi-Fi Dimmable Ceiling Light), one in each of my daughters’ rooms.

Love them so far, but I have one irritation that I can’t seem to figure out.

I’m able to control each light individually, but when both kids want to use a specific FX function (they like the twinkle) it changes both lights to the new setting.

I’ve created two separate groups, which I thought would solve it, but without fail when I put the twinkle setting on both lights they both change to the other’s setting (so, same colour and speed).

Is this an issue that others have encountered? If so, is there a fix?

I tried it last night to turn off my Luna. Set it to go over 20 minutes and it was nice to see it slowly fade from orange to dark blue to almost off before the midnight sun shone in my face waking me up. Turns out that after the Fx runs its course it revers to the previous settings it had which was white and 85% brightness.

I thought I was a way to turn it off the built in sunset fx that you can activate by holding t the power button on it but control the timing of it. But no Its just a rude awakening.

Look, I wasn't intending on "left in the dark" being a pun here, but since I've had a few bulbs cark it completely - I think it works. But that's not even my biggest beef right now.

Firstly, credit where the credit is due - your support team have done very well in being transparent, and effective communicators around the situation, that is, we're in this situation due to cost-cutting and the way that the LIFX assets etc were transferred to the new brand. A lot of companies would typically hide those sort of facts and dish up some pre-canned statements. So, well done on that, at least, but sadly this doesn't resolve my issue.

But the problem: I accidentally upgraded some LIFX bulbs to 2.90, and now the colours are different (irritating) and they won't go down to the same brightness level (no longer fit for purpose). A few years ago, I had this sorted by support and then completely forgot about it; had assumed this would be fixed, and updated the other day and then found out that my night lights are not so bright and are no longer fit for purpose.

I can't roll back, either within the app, side-load and support apparently no longer have that method of roll-back due to the "realities of supporting multiple product generations."

This does not bode well for future generations of bulbs, either.

I wouldn't have purchased those particular bulbs if I couldn't get the brightness that low in the first place.

So where to from here? What products will get me the brightness levels back to where I need that to be (if any) - or do I need to look outside the LIFX ecosystem?

I recently got some tube lights and love them so much but I want to customize them a little more than what seems possible with the app. Two things I really want to be able to do is a green or blue flame (currently the only option seems to be red/orange), and an animation where the tube is dark with some brighter color blobs floating around. The first should be possible using the flame effect with custom colors, but that doesnt seem to be an option in the app, and the second should be possible using the blob effect with two different brightness levels (i havent been able to get that to work through the app but feels like it should be possible). Does anyone have ideas on how to do this? Im wondering if I cant do it through the app if I can find a different way to program the lights, I'm currently working on a bunch of LED arduino projects with C and Python, and hoping there might be a way to play with the lifx lights in a similar way

I am trying to find a smart button control (i.e., dimmer/remote control) to dim LIFX lights like a normal person would dim them. What I mean is that you press and hold down a "dim" button, and the light group progressively darkens. You press and hold down a "brighten" button, and the light group progressively lightens.

The LIFX switches don't do this. They are also unintuitive. (I have observed casual users and they don't know what to do. Even I, who programmed the switches, frequently forget what they do.)

Philips Hue dimmer switches do this: Philips Hue Dimmer Switch, Philips Hue Tap Dial Switch, Lutron Aurora, RunLessWire Click (the latter requires Zigbee Green Power). Yesterday, I managed to connect a Philips Hue Dimmer Switch directly to Samsung SmartThings (no Philips Hue bridge--trying to stay with LIFX in this property), and to get the top button to turn the LIFX lights on and off. There is a little lag but it is tolerable.

If we can't find something that works, I would settle for a button that you have to press repeatedly to dim the lights by say 2-5% per tap, or a rotary dial (e.g., Lutron Aurora).

I think that Matter Binding is supposed to allow direct communication between buttons and LIFX lights, which would solve the lag problem, if such a set of buttons exists.

Hello, as the title states, I have my bulb setup via HomeKit, and it seems to work fine. But I'm trying to get to it via the app so I can update it if needed, but it doesn't show up in the Lifx app. Am I missing a setting somewhere to get it to show up? Is it possible to have the bulb in both HomeKit and Lifx app? I believe I had them in both before, but I recently moved and it doesn't seem to work anymore

I cannot wait until they start selling in the EU again 😀 Although all bulbs still work flawlessly, I would love some updates and new products 😀

Discussing power consumption vs brightness. For instance, Lifx Ceiling Light has 2850 Lumens = 150W. What if it's brightness is set to 10%, what would be the power consumption?

I recently came home to find one of my LIFX Tile sets slowly “breathing” red.

Most of the time, this is just a simple connection fault where you can usually fix it by re-seating the finicky connectors. But in my case, and after testing with all my spare cables, I came to the conclusion that my power supply had failed. It wasn’t completely dead, it still powered the tiles enough to trigger the error color, but it wasn’t fully functional either.

Here’s some background on how the Tile PSU works, because it’s a bit more than just a power supply. The USB Mini B 8-Pin connector carries a few things, but these three are the ones we care about right now. You can find a the full pinout here.

• Red: +24V
• Black: Ground
• Yellow: ID

The ID wire is the tricky part. It provides a 50 Hz square wave at 3.3 V peak with a 50% duty cycle. The tiles use this signal to determine their order. The first tile gets 50 Hz from the PSU, the second gets 40 Hz from the first tile, and so on. On my PSU I verified the circuitry generating this signal failed (With some destructive disassembly, they are glued shut!), even though the 24 V output was fine. That’s what triggered my “breathing red” error.

I found a comment suggesting you could mimic this 50 Hz signal, so I gave it a shot with an ESP8266 I had around. I wrote some code to output 50hz on the IO2 pin, connected it to the yellow ID wire, and hooked up a common ground and power for both.

The tiles then booted up perfectly!

Unfortunately I don’t have an oscilloscope to check how clean the output is, but as per my multimeter it’s right on 50 Hz.

I already had a PCB for a previous LED strip project, which allowed me to just provide the 24V power and an onboard buck converter toned down the voltage to 3.3v for the ESP8266. I then rammed it all into the casing of a failed LIFX Z controller to make it look “good”.

I uploaded the code I used for the ESP8266 to GitHub here. It's pretty simple.

An easier way to replicate this would be to buy a NodeMCU (or similar, an Arduino nano would also work) and hook up each to their own power supply, just making sure to keep a common ground connected between them. I'm sure there is a better module to use for this purpose, i was just using what I had.
Here's a photo of the test setup showing that it works well, no blinking red!

Hopefully this helps anyone in the same or similar situation. These tiles have been discontinued for over five years, so replacements are basically impossible to find! These devices are still one of a kind, and there's nothing that beats them.

Massive thanks to u/delfick and u/Redd1ng for being my source of all the information I found when searching through the internet on how these things work.

References used
https://www.reddit.com/r/lifx/comments/1h4omu5/comment/m0cp0ua/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lifx/comments/oepf9e/comment/h4am5vi/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lifx/comments/kw8wj3/comment/gj305o1/

As the title says, can someone @lifx advise if there are any new products that we can expect to see in rest 2025?

Hi Team, I have a led strip mounted to the back of our tv. It has dropped out of Apple HomeKit and the LIFX app. I have unplugged it and left it off overnight and plugging it back in, the led works, but it doesn’t show in the app.

I’ve reset it with the 5 slow off/on and was able to add it back, but it lost connection shortly afterwards. I have another led strip which has no issues. Plenty of WiFi access to the controller so I don’t think it’s a connection issue.

Looking at replacing all of my house switches, so I ordered a LIFX Switch to trial. We’re off to a bad start.

I can occasionally get it into pairing mode (it’s so inconsistent), but it only lasts for about 5-10 seconds with the green flashing light before it goes back to flashing red. The app won’t recognise it in that window, and it’s not long enough to grab onto the WiFi network and set up that way. I’ve waited 15 minutes for the timeout, and I don’t see any network to connect to. I tried turning cellular on and off, but nothing.

Any help?

In my Kitchen, I installed main light Lifx Ceiling. From this light, I took an electric cable and connected in parallel 3 Lifx Down Lights. Using Alexa routine, I automated the lights to switch on/off based on ring camera motion detection. It works beautifully. My question: does it make difference connecting lights in Series or Parallel?

Has anyone used lifx in their bathrooms? To what extent? I’m considering replacing the the down lights. Will it elevate the room or overkill?

Just bought this the other day, it started doing this after a few hours.

The uplight will no longer do anything on the white light spectrum, but will become a corresponding color (blue for cool, red for warm). A small portion just flashes or cycles through colors.

It's on a 2 way switch. Is it a software issue? Any ideas?

Anyone one problems after the updates.

Group of lifts only 2 out of 4 lights turning on or off. (Ransom lights)

Press on switch does nothing and goes red

All works via the app tho

(Switch FW update)

My little corner of argb.

Looking to get LIFX 26 x 13 inch new ceiling lights with black trim in Australia, either import or buy in Oz. Anyone managed to do this?

I’ve been using Sengled bulbs until they recently seemed to stop supporting the app. It just won’t open or anything. So, I bought all new bulbs from LIFX as they were highly reviewed and supposedly had a great app. The app does a lot of things but I’d like to be able to click on an option and have my lights alternate between say Green and Red for Christmas or pulsate Orange for Halloween. Or cycle between two colors for a sports team, they automated options in the app for a sport team all seem to go from one color to variations of that color to another color. I’d like it to just go from color one to color two and repeat, very simple. Am I just not figuring out how to do it? I’m fairly tech savvy, but these bulbs were super difficult and time consuming to get working. So far, not impressed. If I can’t figure this out, I’m might be returning them.

Hi,

With an IT background, I have often seen processes where I can replace a piece of infrastructure and copy/migrate the settings from the existing one it's replacing. This is great for when an item fails, or if I want to upgrade (eg, swap out an 80 CRI gen3 A19 for a 90 CRI A21) without all the hassle.

Is there such a workflow planned for LIFX?

I've had two failures in the last few months that have sadly become e-waste. I want to swap them over for new bulbs without having to re-do all my scenes, homekit pieces etc. Just, point to old bulb, point to new bulb, and migrate - is the sort of thing I'm after.

Is this available? if not, is it roadmapped? if not, who do I have to email to get this requested?

Having a problem, got new internet so had to reset tiles problem is there not connecting and the lights won't even turn on I read the steps to fix it and followed the - Start with the LIFX light on Turn your light off and on at the wall 5 times slowly at consistent intervals. But it's not working anyone have any suggestions? These are discontinued so I do t know if anyone has these.

We have a room thats 5m by 6m, will this be bright enough? also I would be replacing a traditional light, so the switch when it turns off means the light goes off(im assuming it loses power) will it come straight back on when you press the switch or will you need to reset it up from scracth?