How To Connect LIFX Bulbs To Network?

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I have setup Home Assistant in hopes to get this Smart Light Bulb (LIFX) working with it.

I have Home Assistant setup on it’s own VLAN, and plan to have all IoT devices on their own VLANs.

Now my issue is, how do I actually connect this lightbulb to my network without using their proprietary app?
Like when you FIRST plug in the bulb to the socket out of the box, it gives itself some arbitrary IP like 172.0.35.21 and you are supposed to download their proprietary app and set it up. How do I add the bulb onto the network without using their app? Won’t it need the credentials to join the SSID somehow? Where would I enter this?

Once I get it onto the network, I presume it’s as simple as just giving my firewall it’s MAC address, and assigning it a static IP, and just forwarding the port it needs. I saw in docs and in previous forum history people state you can manually configure lifx in the configuration yaml file. But again, you need the IP of the device… or discover it. But again, I do not understand how you do this, when the device isn’t on the network yet.

I guess this question would not only apply to LIFX bulbs, but to any IoT devices really because they all want you to use an app to configure it seems which is annoying.

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You cant. You have to initially set the bulb up using the app. No need to add it to the cloud, just your wifi.

After home assistant discovers it you can delete it from the app if you wish, though I find it handy to have (local) access with the app to apply firmware updates.

Not sure about your network set up but there is some info about adding a broadcast address in the docs.

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You can’t

Well, that’s pretty frustrating.

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Complain to Lifx. It’s how their API works.

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Hi All,

I’m new to HA and recently added my LIFX bulbs. I found some of them can be controlled by HA to change the colour temperature and brightness, while some, only responded to brightness.
I used the light_on service and change the kelvin temperature.
Just wondering if anyone had the same issue or if there’s a better way to change the temperature that will definitely work all time? Thanks

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Which type of light?

I have 5 different types (GU10 RGB,B22 RGB, B22 WW/CW, BR30 RGB+IR, A60 RGB+IR) and can adjust the colour temperature of all of them (50 lights in total).

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Hi @tom_l - It’s A19