LIFX in Home Assistant
lifx
part of Home Assistant since 0.81
LIFX is an official Home Assistant integration for Button and Light. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Installations
- 8,095 (1.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Button, Diagnostics, Light, Select, Sensor
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (DHCP), HomeKit pairing
- Maintained by
- @Djelibeybi
- Python packages
aiolifx==1.2.2, aiolifx-effects==0.3.2, aiolifx-themes==1.0.4
Setup
- Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for LIFX.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
3 open issues and 3 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for LIFX in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #160109
- open Reported problem #174703
- open Reported problem #173965
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 16, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration