The SDK currently supports Android only. Java support is coming soon.
The LIFX SDK will be published as a JAR archive when it is released publicly, but until then you can still use the SDK by cloning the repository and importing it into your project as an Android Library Project. Users should note that the library is currently in an early Beta stage, so the API itself could change in the future.
- Clone the SDK repository into a directory on your local machine.
- Open Eclipse and choose to import a "existing android code"
- Import the library project.
- Open the project properties for your application, select android then add the library project.
Initializing the library:
Before using the Library functions, a connection must be established with the LIFX lights that are on the current network. First a reference to local network is gathered, then a connection is requested.
LFXNetworkContext localNetworkContext = LFXClient.getSharedInstance( this).getLocalNetworkContext();
localNetworkContext.connect();Turn off all lights:
LFXNetworkContext localNetworkContext = LFXClient.getSharedInstance( this).getLocalNetworkContext();
localNetworkContext.getAllLightsCollection().setPowerState( LFXPowerState.OFF);Turn on the light named "Hallway":
LFXNetworkContext localNetworkContext = LFXClient.getSharedInstance( this).getLocalNetworkContext();
LFXLight hallway = localNetworkContext.getAllLightsCollection().getFirstLightForLabel( "Hallway");
hallway.setPowerState( LFXPowerState.ON);Turn on all lights that are tagged "Kitchen":
LFXNetworkContext localNetworkContext = LFXClient.getSharedInstance( this).getLocalNetworkContext();
LFXTaggedLightCollection kitchen = localNetworkContext.getTaggedLightCollectionForTag( "Kitchen");
kitchen.setPowerState( LFXPowerState.ON);Set every light to a random color:
LFXNetworkContext localNetworkContext = LFXClient.getSharedInstance( this).getLocalNetworkContext();
for( LFXLight aLight : localNetworkContext.getAllLightsCollection().getLights())
{
LFXHSBKColor color = LFXHSBKColor.getColor( (float)(Math.random() * 360), 1.0f, 1.0f, 3500);
aLight.setColor( color);
}Disconnect:
When the application is finished with the LIFX bulbs, you will need to signal the Library to end it's connections.
LFXNetworkContext localNetworkContext = LFXClient.getSharedInstance( this).getLocalNetworkContext();
localNetworkContext.disconnect();A Network Context (LFXNetworkContext) denotes a context within which you will be accessing LIFX devices. The SDK currently only has support for a "Local Network Context", which refers to devices accessible on your LAN. We plan on adding Network Contexts for accessing LIFX devices via the upcoming cloud service.
The underlying LIFX system has three types of internal address: device, tag and broadcast. Device addressing will target an individual device, tag addressing will target all devices that have a particular tag, and broadcast addressing addressing will target all devices. Due to the way the underlying LIFX Binary Protocol works, you'll see much faster responses by targetting a tag (using a Tagged Light Collection) rather than targetting every device within that tag individually. The same goes for targetting all lights - if you want to change the state on all lights, you'll see much faster performance targetting LFXNetworkContext.getAllLightsCollection() instead of targetting each device individually.
A LFXLight object represents an individual LIFX Light, and there will be only one LFXLight corresponding to each device per Network Context.
Light Collections (LFXLightCollection) are classes that encapsulate a group of LIFX lights. They can have their light state manipulated in the same way that an individual light can. You can access the lights within a Light Collection through the .getLights() method.
Each LFXNetworkContext has an .getAllLightCollections() method, which is how you get the list of lights. If you want to manipulate every light in the same way (e.g. to turn every light off), you should use the All Lights Collection property directly, instead of targetting each device individually.
A Tagged Light Collection (LFXTaggedLightCollection) represents the lights contained within a particular tag. If you want to manipulate every device within a tag, you should always use the Tagged Light Collection instead of dealing with each Light individually. Tagged Light Collections are unique within a Network Context.
LIFX makes use of a "HSBK" color representation. The "HSB" part refers to the HSB color space, and the "K" part refers to the Color Temperature of the white point, in Kelvin. At full saturation, HSBK colors will correspond to the edge of the realisable color gamut, and at zero saturation, HSBK colors will correspond to the color described by the Color Temperature in the K component.