Guides
Practical answers to the questions LIFX owners actually ask: how to run your lights from a computer, where the desktop app went, how tokens work, and what you can do without touching the mouse. Each guide ends at the live demo if you'd rather just see it.
Control your LIFX lights from your computer
Why there's no official desktop app, and how to run your lights from a browser tab instead.
A web app for LIFX
There's no official one; here's the browser panel that fills the gap.
How to get a LIFX API token
Generate a personal access token in about two minutes, and keep it safe.
LIFX Control Panel alternatives
Desktop LAN apps versus a hosted browser panel, and the honest trade-off between them.
Control LIFX with your keyboard
Commander is a typed command line for your lights: colours, effects, zones and scenes.
LIFX light shows Offline but works in the LIFX app
The bulb answers the LIFX app but the cloud has lost it. How to check, and how to reconnect.
Remote Lighting is an independent control panel for LIFX and is not affiliated with LIFX.