LIFX wall mounted control and home automation
LED smart lights are great but normally you control them with an app on your phone. This can be a problem when you have guests staying or if you just don’t want to have to search for your phone in order to switch on a light. The solution, of course, is to have some form of physical light switch, possibly connected to a home automation system, or possibly a wirelessly enabled mechanical switch or a touchscreen. There are a few home automation control panels with dashboard-like interfaces that exist but I wanted to build a custom one that could control my LIFX light bulbs , would be flexible enough to easily add other home automation functionality in the future, would run on low cost hardware, and that could be wall mounted. It would also be a chance to learn some new programming skills in the form of building a web application. With that in mind I got a Raspberry Pi 3 with the new 7 inch touchscreen . For the app, I had already constructed a simple Python library that used the LIFX