LIFX bulb unavailable if not switched on at HA start

Configuration
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I only have a single bulb so don’t have others to test, but if my light isn’t powered on when HA starts, it does not show as an entity (and shows “Entity not available” in the UI) until I reboot HA with it switched on.

As long as it’s on a start, if it then goes offline, it just shows as “unavailable” in the UI and then reappears when it’s powered back on which is fine.

Is this the typical/expected behavior? I deliberately want my LIFX bulb turned off at the power source at times, and this has become an annoying quirk that I have to go and make sure it’s turned on when I reboot HA or it never picks up the entity again.

Is there any way I can ‘poll’ for the device after HA starts so I can pick it up again next time it powers on? IIRC, this wasn’t an issue previously when LIFX was set up in the configuration.yaml, but only with the new ‘integration’.

2

It is supposed to work like you want, picking up new bulbs when they are powered on.

I cannot keep track of bug reports in the forum. Please file a GitHub issue with logs enabled:

logger:
 default: info
 logs:
   homeassistant.components.lifx: debug
3

Hey, did this ever get resolved…I’ve just added one lifx to my setup and same scenario for me too.

Any ideas ?

4

Had this issue, but after testing again this morning, it appears that it just takes a min or two after the light is switched on before HA sees the bulb.