Trying to add it manually on the new network but it keeps asking for a code. I do not have the boxes these lights came in and there is no QR code and holding my phone to it doesn’t work. Now what?
I am at my absolute wit's end with this hardware.
My home recently lost power for twelve hours, and my entire LIFX setup has completely broken down.
Some bulbs won't turn on, others are totally unresponsive, and one is stuck on white, refusing to communicate with my phone.
This happens every single time the grid blinks.
I am forced to spend an hour and a half standing in rooms flipping wall switches up and down like an idiot, just hoping the hardware decides to register a reset.
Then it turns into an absolute nightmare of juggling 2.4 GHz bands, crossing my fingers that the app detects the device, or getting completely blocked by the app demanding a QR code that I no longer have.
No one keeps tiny slips of paper forever just to ensure their ceiling lights work after a standard storm. (Maybe you did but I didn't because I couldn't even read them in the first place because the text was so small).
I previously used Philips Hue, and when the power cut out, the entire system recovered automatically.
There was zero strife, zero hours wasted, and no manual rituals.
With LIFX, a basic power loss turns into a miserable, multi-hour ordeal of fighting with an app that ignores manual setup options or fails at the final handshake step.
I do exactly what the documentation tells me to do, and the process still completely fails.
Smart tech is supposed to make life easier.
ake life easier, but this setup process causes nothing but intense frustration and exhaustion.
I've only had this brand for about a year, and a half and it mostly works fine when it works.
I invested a lot of money in a lot of bulbs and now I have to either throw them all away or keep suffering because I'm aware this is likely going to fall on deaf ears and the intent was just to vent or commiserate.
The time has come… Time for my last dumb fixture to go (last photo shows the fixture.) Getting ready to replace this lame LED pendant with a fixture to stuff a bunch of LIFX Tube’s in so every photon in my domicile comes from a LIFX bulb, strip, tile, beam, Luna, fixture, or mirror.
I think I’m leaning towards #5. It’s only four bulbs so it shouldn’t be too bright since that wall next to it already has 16 beam segments on it. It’s short and closer to the ceiling so it will be less in the way than that damn pendant, but scale wise it is a bit larger than #3 which is nearly identical. (Similar difference between #2 and #4, #4 being larger/wider than #2.) That being said, from a purely aesthetics standpoint, I like 2/4 better but think it might be too much given the size of my place. However I also find #6 somewhat interesting and the sheer width of it might look nice given the scale of the slutty artwork on the wall.
Is any of this important? Noooooooooooooooooo not at all. But got bored trying to make up my mind on my own and thought I’d check for outside input…
What do you fellow junkies think? Have any other fixture suggestions? Doesn’t HAVE to be one of those ones I listed.
Howdy all! I was very excited after 6 months of waiting to install my new Lifx mirror!
The attached pictures definitely don't do the product justice. It looks great and the colors are awesome!
Overall, install was pretty easy. It was larger than I imagined even though I loosely measured the space beforehand, and is about a large as I could go in my little bathroom. I removed an existing light fixture and hardwired it.
Similar to other hanging things that require two screws installed level and at an exact dimension, it was a little rough for a few minutes while my girlfriend and I worked together to hang it without scraping everything up. I'd suggest Lifx consider adding stickers that show where those hangers are located on the front of the mirror (they'd pull off when the clear wrap is pulled off).
Because of some subway tile I ended up overlapping the lower edge over the tile, otherwise it would have looked like an oversized mirror that was hung too high.
This style of hanging does result in some unwanted light bleed from the backlight, however I was pleasantly surprised to be able to tweak the frontlight and backlight using zones! I can turn off or turn down the backlight and/or turn off the lower zones to reduce light spillage.
Unfortunately I'm already seeing issues with the touch sensitive buttons - so far I've checked for any firmware updates (none yet) and almost opened a ticket with Lifx support (decided to come here first). The touch sensitive buttons seem to activate themselves (humidity?). Both of us have noticed the mirror was on when no one turned it on, and same for the defog feature (the light turns red when it is on, so it's super obvious). I'm worried about that feature staying on when it isn't in use. Initially I thought "some of my automations might be doing this, gotta troubleshoot that" (I'm heavy into tweaking things and have Home Assistant) but per research, I believe the antifog feature can only be enabled manually.
At the moment, I'm glad I saved all my packaging. Hope I don't regret ordering the first wave out of manufacturing. There's plenty of detail about these being expected to be used in wet locations in the documentation.
Anyone else with the mirror seeing the light and defog come on unexpectedly?
I've had my light for about 1.5 months and then suddenly the downlight just stopped working when I turned the light on. I submitted a ticket via the support site 2 days ago and have yet to get any type of response. Am I better of just taking the light back to Home Depot to return/exchange it at this point?
I'm reaching the end of my tether with this app. A pretty decent percentage of time I go to use my lights, they are not found. I get stuck in my room with the light at full brightness, or off, or low, and have to turn it off on the switch or use other lightbulbs in lamps. It's beyond a joke tbh.
Between this incredibly poor functionality and them discontinuing support of the early lifx bulbs I bought so that I literally cannot use them, I feel pretty ripped off and am considering buying into a different system. Any tips on how to get the app to actually work?
