Hubitat lifx intergration - one lifx light wont' add

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I'm having LIFX issues as well. I've given them static IP addresses.

I have 2 of them. A while back, one lost its mind and I was unable to get it to add into the LIFX app even. No clue. Tried a new LIFX bulb, no luck and no idea why it suddenly refused to add into the app. I suspect there is a router issue with their app.

However, the other LIFX bulb was working fine both in the LIFX app on with the Hubitat.

Until recently. The last event for this up-until-now-working one was 6/16...and I no longer see it as being in the LIFX app (and a refresh does nothing). This one, however DOES work from the LIFX app itself (just not the Hubitat). It looks like I was on 2.3.2.127 when it last responded.

Odd. Frustrating. They have a useful shape for my purpose, which is why I got them--but they are very annoying in terms of working properly lately.

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Is anything blocking UDP?

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Nothing should be.

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mDNS working ok between the wireless and wired segments of your network?

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Usually when this happens something is blocking broadcasting.

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Nothing's really changed that I know of.

Just a couple ASUS wifi routers in an AiMesh. I don't have a fancy Data Center grade network yet (looking at what I could do with Google Fiber 2G...I keep pondering an upgrade :slight_smile: ).

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I'd check them and make sure UDP and upnp are allowed just to be safe. Are you running any vlan's?

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No vlans (just a large network 10.xxx IP range with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0).

Not sure I even have a setting to disable UDP.

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which model routers do you have? And are they updated to their latest firmware?

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ASUS RT-AX89X and RT-AX3000

They autoupdate and are on the most recent firmware.

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I'm going to delete the intergration and re set up .hope it works.

Few other lights are not working but work fine in the lifx app.

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Not sure if this helps anybody or not but I was having similar issues to the LifX bulbs having communication issues not only when adding but also when trying to command through my Hubitat. After they were added, I disabled the ability for the LifX devices to "roam" on my mesh network. Once I disabled that option, I power cycled the bulbs all has been working great.

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I'm having the very same issue with one of my 14 LIFX bulbs.

It's hardly likely to be a router issue if all the other bulbs are integrating normally, is it?