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LIFX in Home Assistant

lifx part of Home Assistant since 0.81

Local, polling Set up in the user interface Quality: Platinum

LIFX is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Button, Light, Select and Sensor. 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
Quality scale
Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
Installations
8,343 (1.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Binary sensor, Button, Light, Select, Sensor
Provides
Binary sensor, Button, Diagnostics, Light, Select, Sensor
Found automatically via
Network discovery (Zeroconf), Network discovery (DHCP), HomeKit pairing
Maintained by
@Djelibeybi
Python packages
lifx-async==7.13.2

Setup

  1. Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
  2. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  3. Click "Add integration" and search for LIFX.
  4. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Blueprints that use this integration

  • Automation Battery SOC Controlled Lamp (discrete colors) ♥ 0 · Import · Forum

All blueprints for it

Known issues and fixes

4 open issues and 5 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for LIFX in the Home Assistant issue tracker.

Open

  • open Reported problem #160109 since January 1, 2026 · 0 reactions · 11 comments · #160109
  • open Reported problem #174703 since June 25, 2026 · 0 reactions · 7 comments · #174703
  • open Reported problem #186559 since October 15, 2026 · 0 reactions · 4 comments · #186559
  • open Reported problem #188306 since October 24, 2026 · 0 reactions · 3 comments · #188306

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of October 28, 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

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