LIFXReviews of lifx.com

have had my lifx light for about 3 years and have NEVER been able to keep it connected for more than 2 weeks. Bought a new one to see if it was a dud, and still, it will SOMETIMES connect (usually the app won’t even find it), and then it works great for a week or two and then "IT LOOKS LIKE THIS LIGHT IS UNAVAILABLE". tried to update it, and it just disconnected midway through. Half the time I just end up using it as a normal light bulb. Going to buy a Phillips hue tomorrow, and I will be crushing this one with a car so as to never have to deal with this headache again. absolute paperweight. you WILL be disappointed if you waste your money on this trash.

So for two years the lights looked good, we bought a z strip for my daughters bed, there was connectivity problems throughout but we lived with those (we have a very strong WiFi connection in the house so we know it wasn't that). Then we unplugged the lights once to move the bed and that was that, we contacted customer support as we bought the lights direct from LiFx and although they are polite nothing they suggested worked and they just state they are out of warranty (by a couple of months). My 5 year old is upset and we are hugely disappointed as the lights are very expensive for what you get. We have 8 lifx lights around the house and all of them have had connectivity issues at random but frequent times. We also have philips hue lights and they work everytime, so my recommendation is don't try the smaller company, you might think you will get a better service but you won't.

There is nothing intuitive about this app. I recommend looking into other brands. I consider myself tech savvy, and I think the app functionality (and setup process) is unnecessarily confusing, and therefore a waste of time. They can do better.

Lifx light bulbs are extremely unreliable. Seems to work for a short time after an initial setup but a few hours later disappears from the LAN. My WIFI scanner doesn't even detect this product. Every time I want to turn on or off this device I must reset it and do another setup, where it will again work for a short time. If you are going to spend a lot of money on a light bulb then avoid this product.

Constantly disconnecting, absurdly bad app/software. The installation/troubleshooting processes are comical. Every few weeks it’s a new issue

The LIFX App (both iOS and Android) is by far the very worst software I have ever had the displeasure of trying to use, over more than 40 years of being a very savvy computer geek. It deserves ALL of the scathing negative reviews from desperately frustrated users. It truly is that bad, and worse.

I am looking forward to smashing all 4 of my LIFX bulbs and finally freeing myself of the massive burden of constant software updates that render the product unusable every time until I spend worthless hours troubleshooting to finally get it to work. Ultimately they still constantly fail to connect and I have to reset and start the whole process over again. LIFX bulbs have been one of the worst banes I have ever experienced in my whole life. I highly recommend NEVER putting yourself in this constant rabbit hole of troubleshooting that will NEVER end.

I should have read the reviews here before I bought so many of these stupid bulbs at such high price! At first these bulbs worked so nice that I liked them so much and bought about 20 of these bulbs and now almost half of them don't work and the LIFX support guys keep asking where is the original receipt with the serial numbers etc. How can one keep track of receipts for every bulb you buy for over years! Now they say that they can't repair or provide a replacement. Their warrant also changes over time and this has been a dead investment for me loosing so much money thinking that these bulbs will last at least 4-5 years. I'd absolutely not recommend anyone these bulbs and someone should file a class action suit against this company as they're cheating everyone.