README.md

Development is now being continued on the new Mantle project

LIFX-Control-Panel

LIFX-Control-Panel is an open source application for controlling your LIFX brand lights. It integrates simple features, such as monitoring and changing bulb color, with more advanced ones, like:

• Average Screen Color
• Color Eyedropper
• Custom color palette
• Keybindings

Color Averaging Demo (Click for Video):

The application uses a fork of mclarkk's's lifxlan module to discover and send commands to the lights.

The fork can be found here.

Quick Start

There are 2 3 ways to install:

1. Go over to releases and download the latest .exe file.

2. Run pip install lifx-control-panel. To start run python -m lifx_control_panel.

Starting the program takes a moment, as it first must scan your LAN for any LIFX devices.

Running the source code

You can now install through PyPI, by running pip install lifx-control-panel. This will automatically install dependencies.

To manually install the dependencies, run pip install -r requirements.txt.

Due to some initial PyCharm cruft, the environment paths are a bit messed up.

• The main script path is:
  • ..\LIFX-Control-Panel\lifx_control_panel\__main__.pyw
• The Working Directory is:
  • ..\LIFX-Control-Panel\lifx_control_panel
• Additionally, the Add content roots to PYTHONPATH and Add source roots to PYTHONPATH boxes are checked
  • I haven't been able to reproduce this in VSCode, yet.

Building

LIFX-Control-Panel uses PyInstaller. After downloading the repository, open a command window in the LIFX-Control-Panel directory, and run pyinstaller __main__.pyw. This should initialize the necessary file structure to build the project.

As admin, run pip install -r requirements.txt to install project dependencies. Note that pyaudio requires the use of pipwin to install - use pip install pipwin to obtain pipwin then install pyaudio using pipwin install pyaudio

To build the project, simply open a terminal in the same folder and run build_all.bat in the command prompt. It will call pyinstaller on build_all.spec. This should generate .exe files in the /dist folder of the project for each of the 3 specs:

• main
  • This is the file that is used to build the main binary. The console, as well as verbose logging methods, are disabled.
• debug
  • This spec file enables the console to run in the background, as well as verbose logging.
• demo
  • The demo mode simulates adding several "dummy" lights to the LAN, allowing the software to be demonstrated on networks that do not have any LIFX devices on them.

If you need help using PyInstaller, more instructions are located here.

Testing progress

I have currently only tested on the following operating systems:

• Windows 10

and on the following LIFX devices:

• LIFX A19 Firmware v2.76
• LIFX A13 Firmware v2.76
• LIFX Z Firmware v1.22
• LIFX Mini White Firmware v3.41
• LIFX Beam

I've tried to test on the following operating systems:

• MacOS X
• Fedora Linux

However, the biggest hurdle seems to be the tk GUI library, which is not supported on MacOS X, and requires extra library installations on Linux.

Feedback

If you have any comments or concerns, please feel free to make a post on the Issues page.

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LIFX-Control-Panel will always be free and open source. However, if you appreciate the work I'm doing and would like to contribute financially, you can donate below. Thanks for your support!