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stringandstickytape / MaxLifx

Windows app to control LIFX bulbs
GNU General Public License v2.0
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No bulbs found, lifxlan works though #18

Open tchesket opened 5 years ago

tchesket commented 5 years ago

I have not been able to get this to discover my lights. However, when using the lifxlan utilities, that seems to work fine. Also, another program I found on github, called Lifx control panel, uses lifxlan and that one works fine, never has any issues discovering the lights. It seems to be hit or miss (mostly miss) though, because yet a 3rd program using lifxlan called lifxlan-gui does not work either. The official Lifx windows 10 app, and a 3rd party app from the windows app store called lifxdynamic, both work as well. At first I thought there was something about my network that lifxlan just didn't like, but seeing how lifxlan standalone utilities work, and Lifx control panel works using lifxlan. I can't wrap my head around how this could be possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I very much would like to use this program.

MediumBrownToast commented 4 years ago

Are you running any AV? I found exiting MalwareBytes allowed me to discover my LIFX bulbs...although not all of them were discovered.

johnwang16 commented 4 years ago

It looks like disabling malwarebytes web protection and leaving the other stuff running allows MaxLifx to work.