Lately I've been busy with other projects and my education and frankly I haven't had much motivation to keep updating this. I'm therefore archiving this project, apologies to anyone affected.
Gtk (Handy) app to control LIFX smart lights using the lifxlan api.
Ambience is available on flathub and on fedora copr!
Otherwise, the raw package files are available under releases.
If not running through flatpak, remember to install the lifxlan api:
# pip3 install lifxlan
On the surface it might seem this update is relatively minor, simply disconnecting the groups from the lights, allowing the user to create groups as they please. However, the theme of 1.3 has been continued, and many parts of the code have been abstracted, which took a lot of time but should make it easier to add features in the future, such as presets / favorites and support for other vendors!
With update 1.3 the UI has been reworked to allow easier management of lights in groups. This also makes adding new features in the future much easier (such as scenes etc.) A lot of things have been changed, especially under the hood, and its difficult for me to test group features because I only have one light, so please report any bugs you encounter!
The lights are saved in ~/.config/ambience.json with the format:
{
"version": "1.4"
"groups": [
{
"label": "Group Label",
"devices": [
"label": "Light Label",
"kind": "lifx"
"data": {
"ip": "172.16.2.xxx",
"mac": "d0:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx",
}
]
}
]
}
This is different from previous versions, which stored lights in ~/.config/lights.json in a different format. The old config file is converted automatically upon startup.