What's new in LIFXstyle 3.5.1
Jul 26, 2021
- Minor robustness and debug logging improvements
New in LIFXstyle 3.5.0 (Jun 30, 2021)
- First universal binary build, to run natively on M1 or Intel Macs (10.12+)
- Some small general improvements and updates
New in LIFXstyle 3.4.0 (Aug 20, 2020)
- Adds manual option to renew UDP sockets which may help if lamps become unresponsive.
- May cure a problem where LIFXstyle is in user's startup items and doesn't find the lamps right away and the lamps then never appear without manually restarting LIFXstyle.
- Some general updates
New in LIFXstyle 3.3.2 (Jan 30, 2019)
- If location services is switched off, or permission hasn't been given for LIFXstyle to access the user's location, and the user tries to switch on 'Link times to sunrise / sunset' then the schedule dialog closes elegantly and information is shown. Previously the window would hang with no explanation.
- App notarized by Apple (security checked and certified)
New in LIFXstyle 3.3.1 (Oct 28, 2018)
- Updates the list of products within the app, used by the Lamp Explorer window.
New in LIFXstyle 3.3.0 (Sep 23, 2018)
- The update check no longer able to perform the download, which has been problematic for security reasons. Instead visits application home page where the download can be made
- Adds two preferences relating to groups:
- Groups display on/off state based on at least one / majority / all
- Using a group's on/off button also makes the settings of all lamps in the group consistent
New in LIFXstyle 3.2.2 (Sep 21, 2018)
- If manual controller (main window) is closed, clicking dock icon or double-clicking application icon will re-open the controller window.
New in LIFXstyle 3.2.1 (Sep 18, 2018)
- dark-mode-ready for MacOs 10.14 Mojave (will respect the user's choice of dark or light mode in System Preferences)
- Fixes small bug causing colours used in an effect to become slightly more saturated each time the effect is opened and closed
- Fixes problem with the schedule window causing the controls to change colour / brightness to not always be visible when they should be
New in LIFXstyle 3.2.0 (Aug 10, 2018)
- Enables dark mode when using MacOs 10.14 Mojave (will respect the user's choice of dark or light mode in System Preferences)
- Fixes crash when switching to Schedules > Chart when using the new system
- Interface improvements:
- The on/off button for each lamp/group indicates more clearly whether the lamp is on at low brightness or off (Button goes darker when lamp is off, in light and dark modes.)
- The sliders for warmth, whiteness and brightness have graduated coloured backgrounds to indicate what will happen if you move them in a particular direction
- Warmth and whiteness sliders are completely hidden if the lamp doesn't have those capabilities
New in LIFXstyle 3.1.4 (Mar 30, 2018)
- Adds a box in Preferences:Advanced for manual entry of bulb IP's for a small number of users who find that neither of the regular methods of discovery work.
New in LIFXstyle 3.1.3 (Jan 17, 2018)
- Adds 'Turn all off' and 'Turn all on' to status bar menu, preset submenu
- Fix to 'Turn all off' and 'Turn all on' in hotkeys
- If an effect is running, and user switches lamp/group off (or selects a preset that results in the lamp switching off) then effect is stopped. Previously the effect continued running which could switch the lamp back on.
New in LIFXstyle 3.1.1 (Jan 4, 2018)
- Adds drag and drop functionality to the colour indicators. You can drag a colour from one lamp to another, or from a lamp to a group. This makes it easy to find a colour you like and then propagate that colour to a group or all lamps. The colour temperature functionality is supported in this.
New in LIFXstyle 3.1.0 (Dec 20, 2017)
- Support for multizone lamps (LIFX Z strips):
- control strips for lightstrips are indicated with a 'lightstrip' icon
- control strips for lightstrips have a '>' button which navigates the current view to show control strips for each zone in the multizone light, and thus control each zone separately
- hovering over that button displays the number of zones as a tooltip
- (groups / locations / tags also now have this navigation feature and hovering over the button in that case displays the number of lamps in the group as a tooltip)
- when navigated to show the zones in a lightstrip / multizone lamp, and after pressing [+] to make a preset, a dialog asks whether the preset should apply to just the multizone lamp or all lamps that LIFXstyle knows about. (This 'inclusion' or lamps affected by the preset can be altered later from the 'Manage presets' window.)
- effects can be applied individually to zones
- if applied to a whole multizone strip, an effect now has a setting for 'rotating' the effect
- Other enhancements:
- adds improved 'about box' which displays licence key and licensed email address
New in LIFXstyle 3.0.7 (Dec 14, 2017)
- Adds export and import for settings, for use when moving computers and wanting to migrate existing schedules, presets, effects and some settings
- Adds 'are you sure?' checks to deletion of effects and schedules
- Corrects an issue with the warmth value when running an effect that uses whites with different warmth values
- Updates the default implementations of 'false dawn' and 'false dusk' to take advantage of the fact that effects now handle warmth values
- Existing users can load these updated effects by deleting the original ones and quitting & restartingLIFXstyle
- Other small fixes
New in LIFXstyle 3.0.6 (Dec 9, 2017)
- Sorts out some issues with dragging using the little grippie in the corner of each control strip
- Fixes window resizing issue
- Restores and improves the Lamp Explorer tool (View > Lamp Explorer)
- Fixes minor issue with navigation when setting the affected lamps for a preset
- *Existing users* - please note that this version may display the licensing panel, even though you are licensed. This is a side-effect of making an major update to the Paddle licence key framework within the app. Your existing key is valid, there is no upgrade fee and no need to buy again (unless you want to show your gratitude once more.) If you receive a 'too many activations' message, contact support, it's an easy matter to reset your key.
New in LIFXstyle 3.0.5 Beta (Dec 7, 2017)
- Adds new color picker and warmth functionality to effects designer
- Improves effect consistency (should continue at the same speed when LIFXstyle is in the background or screensaver kicks in)
- Animates 'effect' button in control strips, so it's clear when an effect is running
- Other interface improvements (Adds toolbar 'effects' button, sorts out some inconsistent context button hiding in the schedule editing popover)
New in LIFXstyle 3.0.4 Beta (Dec 4, 2017)
- Control strips can only be dragged using the little grippie in the corner, preventing accidental and confusing drags when you accidentally miss a slider
- Control strips take into account the capabilities of the lamp, eg hiding the warmth and color controls if the lamp can only display a fixed white light
- Efficiency improvements
New in LIFXstyle 3.0.3 Beta (Nov 29, 2017)
- Small changes to the appearance of the navigator (left-hand panel)
- Adds 10.9 (Mavericks) support
New in LIFXstyle 3.0.2 Beta (Nov 29, 2017)
- Fixes problem using scrollwheel over colourpicker (to adjust brightness) if whites / warmth are selected.
- Fixes some duplication in the status menu
- Fixes little glitch with layout selector in toolbar and view > layout menu when selecting the minimal layout
- Fixes issue with Preferences window
- Sorts out some problems saving presets
- Adds 'warmth' slider to schedule settings window, so varying warmth values can be scheduled now
New in LIFXstyle 3.0.1 Beta (Nov 24, 2017)
- Fixes problems with schedules involving groups/tags which were created using v2.x.
New in LIFXstyle 3.0 Beta (Nov 22, 2017)
- Connectivity with the lamps now handled by our own new code rather than LIFX's own framework (which had been unsupported and become out-of-date). This may or may not improve connectivity right away (though in early testing it appears reliable and responsive) but at least we will be able to diagnose and fix problems, and keep it up to date with developments to the LIFX LAN protocol
- UI improved. Now allows you to select 'groups' and 'locations' (which will be in sync with other apps / the LIFX cloud system) and 'tags'. Each bulb can be in only one Group and Location (groups are location-specific). But bulbs can have more than one 'tag'. 'Tags' are actually what was called 'groups' in previous LIFXstyle versions. This was done for UI consistency with our Hue app, we didn't forsee LIFX adding 'groups' as a different concept.
- A new layout added (making four options now for layout) - a minimal layout that puts the minimum controls into small blocks.
- A custom colour-picker added, replacing the use of the standard MacOS colour picker. The new one is clean and geared towards smartbulbs, and switches between colour and whites.
- Redesigned on/off buttons give an indication of colour and brightness
- Status bar menu improved - now shows lamps / groups / locations / tags / all (according to what's selected in the main window) with coloured dots to indicate status and colour setting. These can be clicked to switch the lamp / group on or off
- Still works entirely on the local network, not using LIFX's cloud system at all..
New in LIFXstyle 2.0.2 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Fixes an instability which may have caused random crashes hourly or daily depending on settings.
- Adds 'View' control to toolbar. This setting (3 layouts) has been available before but tucked away in the menus.
New in LIFXstyle 2.0.1 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Adds debug console (not for general use)
- Fixes problem with 'Lamp Explorer' window, could crash app if closed and re-opened
- Some work towards compatibility with High Sierra
New in LIFXstyle 1.7.1 (Feb 8, 2016)
- Small bug fix which may improve the reliability of scheduled switching
New in LIFXstyle 1.7 (Feb 8, 2016)
- Adds 'Chart' option for visualising schedules (gantt chart)
New in LIFXstyle 1.6 (Feb 8, 2016)
- Adds 'warmth' control to control strips. This relates to the LIFX bulbs' kelvin control - the white point. This affects whites or any colour, making the light warmer or cooler.
New in LIFXstyle 1.6 RC (Oct 23, 2015)
- Adds 'warmth' control to control strips. This relates to the LIFX bulbs' kelvin control - the white point. This affects whites or any colour, making the light warmer or cooler.
New in LIFXstyle 1.5.4 (Oct 23, 2015)
- Includes an update to the LIFXKit which should fix a crash on startup experienced by users with the new white bulbs