Has anyone come across the problem where a Lifx+ A19 light is only recognised as a normal A19 colour (no infrared)?
The light came in black packaging and has the + icon on the light but no matter how many times I reset the light and re-join it to the network it shows up without the infrared ‘eye’ icon and without infrared brightness setting in the app.
I bought it at a local shop (Bunnings) so I exchanged the light yesterday. The replacement is doing exactly the same thing.
They are not present when I connect my supposedly ‘+’ light.
Also I have tried to turn the infrared brightness to 100% using the dev tools services panel in HA (with the white/colour light off). Viewing the light with a 950nm sensitive camera shows nothing.
You should have control over the infrared brightness according to this: LIFX - Home Assistant
infrared Automatic infrared level (0…255) when light brightness is low (for compatible bulbs).
My problem seems to be that this light is not showing up as an infrared compatible bulb in the Lifx app.
@tom_l I’ve just bought a BR30+ and whilst I can control the IR setting in the app I can’t get it to work via home assistant. I have no idea if/when you’ll see me resurrecting an old post but am curious if the control is still working for you and if so what firmware you’re on?
My Device Info shows:
LIFX+ BR30
by LIFX
Firmware: 2.77
I’ve tried having the light on/off, with IR disabled/enabled via the Lifx app, and in all cases whilst the service doesn’t return an error I am not seeing the change reflected in the Lifx app as I’d expect.
It is still working for me. Unfortunately I have no way of checking the firmware as none of my lights are in the cloud and I will not be on my local network again until next year (home assistant does not include this as an attribute).
This is the answer I’ve been looking for! As a newbie to HA, it was quite the feat to get it working. Or so I thought. It seems that the slider is not calling the service so nothing is actually happening to that light.
Furthermore, in a perfect world, rather than having a slider on lovelace, would there be a way to replicate the LIFX app toggle which consists of 4 buttons, each representing a percentage value of IR strength?