A Python library to control and monitor LIFX bulbs
Project description
A Python library to control and monitor LIFX bulbs. Also provides a workaround for users having issues with controlling LIFX bulbs on their network.
GitHub: https://github.com/derkarnold/pylifx
Originally written to allow the LIFX bulb to work in non-standard networks, but it is growing to be much more.
- Huge thanks to Kevin Bowman(magicmonkey) and others for the lifxjs project on GitHub:
Without their work on the lifxjs project, this one would not have been possible.
Current features:
Allows the LIFX bulb smartphone app to work by “faking” a bulb and relaying commands to the real one (see examples/bridge.py).
Gives the ability to display the contents of LIFX messages coming through. ** Huge thanks to magicmonkey and the lifxjs project for their hard work on working out the LIFX protocol.
The ability to run “scenes” - provide a dictionary of times and colours and the library will do the rest (see examples/sunrise.py).
Upcoming features:
Auto-discovery of bulbs (yes, should have been there already).
Support for more than one bulb per bridge (waiting on another bulb to arrive).
Two common issues with installing:
Linux users - ensure you have python-dev installed (for the netifaces package).
Windows users - install the pre-built binaries for your python distribution using the links in the following URL: http://alastairs-place.net/projects/netifaces/ (The section is just above the start of the Changelog section).
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