LIFX issues
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I recently got a hub and am trying to toggle my LIFX lights.
I have a few Original bulbs and none of them are found in LIFX Local Network. Originals seem to be the only ones missing. They’re all on the same network, and can be discovered if I use a JavaScript LIFX lan client (so they’re definitely discoverable locally, and not just through the cloud).
How can I find these in Flic?
Because I can’t see them all, I have to resort to the cloud integration, but it rarely toggles the light. If I go into the Flic app, I sometimes get modal that says “Could not refresh LIFX: Network issue”
What can I do?
Finally, I bought a Twist with the plan to have it transition from 0% red, to 100% red in the middle to 100% white. The biggest issue is the transition from red to white results in a hue shift, so it jumps around flashing pinks and purples etc, rather than reducing the saturation like it does in the LIFX app (or directly via their lan protocol)
The other issue is that colour selection is frustrating. The colours have names but no values. I want pure red, a hue of 0°. Is that “fire engine red” or “cherry red”? The name also isn’t displayed in the colour wheel screen so it’s even harder to figure out where the names sit relative to each other. Whites is the same story. Names but no colour temperature. The names don’t even correspond to the ones in the LIFX app. How warm is “wheat”? Similarly, the sliders have no values on the screen where you set them. What I actually want for the twist is for the lowest setting to be 1% red (the dimmest it can be without being off) and not 3% or whatever value I manage to set as I flick in and out of that screen trying to get 1%.
I would love for the values to at least be displayed on the selector screen. Is there another way I can set the values numerically? Is there an API or something? Or being able to pick up the values that are currently set on the light
Pretty disappointed by the SDK runtime. I gather there are plans to modernise it and I hope that happens.
Are there plans to expose the Twist in it or elsewhere? I would really like to be able to do my own integration.
I’ve been using Flic since 2016 with my own server implementation and it has been amazing. It means I can have a home full of smart bulbs that adjust themselves over the course of the day, even when they’re off, but can be turned on and off like a regular light, but even better because you can place switches by the doorway but also both sides of the bed, also perfect for a rented apartment. After we moved into a house, there were issues with Bluetooth range which the hub claims to address, and the SDK sounded like I could offload a lot my own code. The Twist was also compelling so I bought them both. I was tempted to buy a few but fortunately I only bought one with view to test it first.
As you can probably tell, my experience has been incredibly disappointing as it is failing even the most basic requirements, toggling a light.
If nothing else, my main ask is that I can do my own Twist integration so that everything can be calls to my server and I can handle it there.
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It has been stable after locking it to a single access point in my router network settings
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The hub stopped working again.
I figured out the app connects to the hub via bluetooth rather than the network. The internet connectivity test fails.I have 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz wifi with the same SSID. I also have a second access point. I have now locked the hub to one of the access points so will see if that fixes it.
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I finally got around to implementing my own HTTP endpoint to toggle groups of lights which was working well but then stopped completely. I could connect to the hub with my phone. The button click showed up in the app and the LED flashed on the hub but nothing happened. Manually executing the action from the app revealed nothing, not even the timeout modal that I have seen on occasion.
A reboot of the hub got it working again. I've since discovered I can test internet access from the Hub settings, which I will try next time, but the endpoint I was trying to access is on the LAN, so not sure whether the test will reveal anything.
Is there anything I can do to prevent this happening again (eg use ethernet) or a way I can diagnose it externally (eg power cycle via a smart plug if it stops responding to pings)
Is there a way to see logs from the hub, or any other visibility into what it is experiencing?
