Installation

The easiest way to install this utility is using pip:

$ pip install lifx-cmd

Alternatively you can install by downloading this github repo and installing it manually:

$ git clone https://github.com/MichaelAquilina/lifx-cmd
$ cd lifx-cmd
$ python setup.py install

Setup

Assuming you’ve already connected your lifx bulb to your home network, you need to specify the master bulb you are communicating with.

The easiest way to do this is by first running the lifx-discover utility command that comes with this package:

$ lifx-discover
'wlan0' interface (broadcast address 192.168.0.255)
  IP Address:   192.168.0.38
  MAC Address:  03-1F-7B-7B-64-F6

Enter the discovered MAC address to a .lifx file in your home directory:

$ echo "03-1F-7B-7B-64-F6" > "~/.lifx"

The command utility will automatically search for this file on execution. Alternatively you can specify the MAC address from the environment variable LIFXBULB:

$ export LIFXBULB="03-1F-7B-7B-64-F6"

Finally, you can simply specify the mac address as a command line parameter:

$ lifx --bulb "03-1F-7B-7B-64-F6" power on

Features

Power your bulb on and off:

$ lifx power on
$ lifx power off

Change its RGB state:

$ lifx rgb 1 0 0   # Red light
$ lifx rgb 0 1 0   # Green light
$ lifx rgb 0 0 1   # Blue light
$ lifx rgb 1 0 1   # Magenta light

etc…

Same approach can be taken with HSB. For example:

$ lifx hsb 0 1 1

The temperature of the bulb can also be set to yellow tinge or pure white LED:

$ lifx temperature 65535   # bright white
$ lifx temperature 0       # classic yellow

By default the bulb is set to fade in changes sent over a period of 1 second. You can change this with the -f flag:

$ lifx -f 0 rgb 0 1 0           # Immediately change to green
$ lifx -f 10 temperature 65535  # Change to white over a period of 10 seconds

History

0.2.3 (2016-02-16)

• Add lifx-discover command to discover bulbs

• Add better help and description fields

• Other minor improvements

0.2.0 (2015-06-21)

• Add lifx-discover command for an easy way of discovering master bulbs on your network

0.1.2 (2015-06-21)

• Don’t fail if only ~/.lifx is available

0.1.1 (2015-06-20)

• Add missing read from ~/.lifx file functionality

0.1.0 (2015-06-20)

• First release on PyPI.