This is a utility for controlling stand-alone Flux WiFi LED light bulbs. The protocol was reverse-engineered by studying packet captures between a bulb and the controlling "Magic Home" mobile app. The code here dealing with the network protocol is littered with magic numbers, and ain't so pretty. But it does seem to work!
So far most of the functionality of the apps is available here via the CLI and/or programmatically.
The classes in this project could very easily be used as an API, and incorporated into a GUI app written in PyQt, Kivy, or some other framework.
- Discovering bulbs on LAN
- Turning on/off bulb
- Get state information
- Setting "warm white" mode
- Setting single color mode
- Setting preset pattern mode
- Setting custom pattern mode
- Reading timers
- Setting timers
- Sync clock
- Initial administration to set up WiFi SSID and passphrase/key.
- Remote access administration
- Music-relating pulsing. This feature isn't so impressive on the Magic Home app, and looks like it might be a bit of work.
- Specify colors with names or web hex values. Requires that python "webcolors" package is installed. (Easily done via pip, easy_install, or apt-get, etc.) Use --listcolors to show valid color names.
- Flux_led package available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flux-led/
pip install flux_led
easy_install flux_led
Scan network:
python -m flux_led -s
Scan network and show info about all:
python -m flux_led -sSti
Turn on:
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 --on
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -192.168.1.101 -1
Turn on all bulbs on LAN:
python -m flux_led -sS --on
Turn off:
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 --off
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 --0
python -m flux_led -sS --off
Set warm white, 75%
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -w 75 -1
Set fixed color red :
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -c Red
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -c 255,0,0
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -c "#FF0000"
Set preset pattern #35 with 40% speed:
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -p 35 40
Set custom pattern 25% speed, red/green/blue, gradual change:
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -C gradual 25 "red green (0,0,255)"
Sync all bulb's clocks with this computer's:
python -m flux_led -sS --setclock
Set timer #1 to turn on red at 5:30pm on weekdays:
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -T 1 color "time:1730;repeat:12345;color:red"
Deactivate timer #4:
python -m flux_led 192.168.1.100 -T 4 inactive ""
Use --timerhelp for more details on setting timers
$ python -m flux_led -h
Usage: usage: __main__.py [-sS10cwpCiltThe] [addr1 [addr2 [addr3] ...].
A utility to control Flux WiFi LED Bulbs.
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s, --scan Search for bulbs on local network
-S, --scanresults Operate on scan results instead of arg list
-i, --info Info about bulb(s) state
--getclock Get clock
--setclock Set clock to same as current time on this computer
-t, --timers Show timers
-T NUM MODE SETTINGS, --settimer=NUM MODE SETTINGS
Set timer. NUM: number of the timer (1-6). MODE:
inactive, poweroff, default, color, preset, or
warmwhite. SETTINGS: a string of settings including
time, repeatdays or date, and other mode specific
settings. Use --timerhelp for more details.
Program help and information option:
-e, --examples Show usage examples
--timerhelp Show detailed help for setting timers
-l, --listpresets List preset codes
--listcolors List color names
Power options (mutually exclusive):
-1, --on Turn on specified bulb(s)
-0, --off Turn off specified bulb(s)
Mode options (mutually exclusive):
-c COLOR, --color=COLOR
Set single color mode. Can be either color name, web
hex, or comma-separated RGB triple
-w LEVEL, --warmwhite=LEVEL
Set warm white mode (LEVEL is percent)
-p CODE SPEED, --preset=CODE SPEED
Set preset pattern mode (SPEED is percent)
-C TYPE SPEED COLORLIST, --custom=TYPE SPEED COLORLIST
Set custom pattern mode. TYPE should be jump, gradual,
or strobe. SPEED is percent. COLORLIST is a space-
separated list of color names, web hex values, or
comma-separated RGB triples