I’ve been meaning to add my Elgato Keylight Air to HomeKit for a while, and thanks to this post on Reddit I finally worked out how. And it turned out to be pretty simple.
Pre-requisites Have a working Homebridge system connected to HomeKit. Install the homebridge-http-lightbulb plugin. Before you begin Assign your Keylight Air a static IP address via DHCP. Replace 192.168.1.80 in the JSON configuration below with the IP address you assigned in the previous step.
In my previous post, I provided one method of starting and stopping firmware effects using Photons Interactor. Since that post was written, delfick has added native support for effects (with theme support), so this is a quick post to demonstrate how to use these new commands.
The Flic Hub LR has local LIFX LAN support, but the functionality is quite limited. It only allows you to toggle power state, turn a bulb on/off or change its colour. The only other option is the ability to trigger a scene via the LIFX Cloud. This post details a third option, which is leveraging a local Photons Interactor server to do complex transfomations triggered by a Flic.
My home network runs exclusively on Ubiquiti UniFi hardware which is fantastic, but it hides the WMM configuration setting from the web-based UI. Disabling Airtime Fairness and WMM is one of the first things you should do for any SSID dedicated to low-powered IoT devices like LIFX smart bulbs.
My docker-lifx-daydusk project attempts to solve two usability concerns with the Day & Dusk functionality built-into the LIFX app: it does not require a connection to the LIFX Cloud and it provides more configurable options for each scheduled transition event.
I know a bunch of HomeKit enthusiasts that use Homebridge even with LIFX’s native HomeKit support in their newer bulbs. After the LIFX team implemented firmware effect calls in the HTTP API, I knew it would be possible to create a HomeKit switch that would turn an effect on and off and here it is.