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Bulb goes to unidentified. #13

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CypherMK opened this issue Oct 5, 2021 · 1 comment
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Bulb goes to unidentified. #13

CypherMK opened this issue Oct 5, 2021 · 1 comment

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@CypherMK
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CypherMK commented Oct 5, 2021

Since I bought 4 extra GU10 bulbs, I sometimes have bulbs go to unidentified by itself. I have 9 bulbs in total now. Always a random bulb. They stay available in the Lifx app. What can I do about it?

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This sounds a lot like the type of issues LIFX community forum is full of unfortunately. The most common workarounds I've seen suggested are:

  • Try another wifi channel, it's important to use a fixed channel one of 1, 6 or 11. The channels in between shouldn't be used for any devices due to sideband noise.
  • Try changing the router to another location if possible
  • Set fixed a IP addresses for the lights on your router settings. This helped a lot for me after setting the list of light IP's on the config node as a comma separated list, eg. "192.168.1.20, 192.168,1.21, 192.168.1.22"
  • Buy a dedicated wifi router if you don't already have. Wifi routers bundled with cable/ADSL modems are usually not very good.

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