lifx-adapter

LIFX smart bulb adapter for WebThings Gateway.

Largely derived from https://github.com/WebThingsIO/tplink-adapter

There are no settings, the adapter will automatically discover any LIFX bulbs on the same local network, and you can then add them individually.

Bulb names are reported by the LIFX API, so they should automatically show up in the gateway web interface if you have set names for them in the LIFX app.

Supported Devices

Tested and Working

• Mini Day & Dusk
• A19
• BR30+

Untested but Should Work

• All other LIFX bulbs

Requirements

If you're running this add-on outside of the official gateway image for the Raspberry Pi, i.e. you're running on a development machine, you'll need to do the following (adapt as necessary for non-Ubuntu/Debian):

sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/WebThingsIO/gateway-addon-python.git

Installing for development

Clone this repo inside ~/.mozilla-iot/addons/ and run the packaging script:

cd ~/.mozilla-iot/addons

git clone https://github.com/mrstegeman/lifx-adapter.git

./package.sh

Then restart the gateway and the LIFX addon should be available.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter a DistutilsOptionError when building the package, the error is caused by the packaged version of pip that comes with Debian based Linux distributions, including Raspbian. The upstream version of pip does not have this problem.

The simplest fix is to "upgrade" pip:

pip3 install --upgrade pip

Note that this won't actually upgrade the packaged version, which will be left alone, but will instead install the upstream version of pip to /usr/local/bin/pip3. As long as /usr/local/bin appears first in $PATH, scripts will use that upstream version instead.

Credits

This add-on was originally created by Stephen Oliver (@steveatinfincia).