The lifx firmware update 2.0 seems to break a few things, we are waiting for the LIFX team to update LIFXKit. In the meantime please try the old 1.0.1 release if you are having problems.

lifx-sdk-java aims to be a feature complete implementation of the LIFX protocol for Java. It supports turning lights on/off, colors, labels, groups and alarms (persisted in the bulb).

If you run into a bug please don't hesitate to create an issue, so that we can try and make this library as stable as possible!

Examples

Print all lights:

LFXClient client = new LFXClient();        
client.open(true);
try {
    for(LFXLight light: client.getLights()) {
        System.out.format("Light: %n");
        System.out.format("\tid=%s%n", light.getID());
        System.out.format("\tlabel=%s%n", light.getLabel());
        System.out.format("\tpower=%s%n", light.isPower());
        System.out.format("\ttime=%s%n", light.getTime());
        System.out.format("\tcolor=%s%n", light.getColor());                
    }
} finally {
    client.close();
}

Setting an alarm on a light. The alarm is saved in the light and does not require the program to be running for the alarm to go off. In the current firmware only two alarms per light is allowed:

LFXClient client = new LFXClient();
client.open(true);
try {            
    LFXLight light = client.getLights().getLightByLabel("my light");
    Date time = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() + 30 * 1000);
    LFXAlarmCollection alarms = light.getAlarms();                        
    alarms.set(0, new LFXAlarm(time, new LFXHSBKColor(Color.BLUE), 7 * 1000));
} finally {
    client.close();
}

For more examples see the example package.

Documentation

• Javadoc for for the master branch
• Protocol documentation created from reading the source of LIFX Android SDK and LIFX SDK for Objective-C

Maven

Version 2.0

Javadoc for 2.0

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.besherman</groupId>
  <artifactId>lifx-sdk-java</artifactId>
  <version>2.0</version>
</dependency>

Version 1.0

For the old lifx-sdk-android compatible release see the release-1.0 branch

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.besherman</groupId>
  <artifactId>lifx-sdk-java</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>

History

Version 1.0 of lifx-sdk-java was a simple port of lifx-sdk-android and tried to keep as close to the original as possible. But as time has passed lifx-sdk-android has not seen much activity or updates and an official Java implementation does not seem likely. So the upcoming version 2.0 of lifx-sdk-java has been largely rewritten for a simpler codebase and many new features has been implemented. The old version 1.0 branch is still avaliable.