I just received the following email newsletter from Osram:

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Dear LIGHTIFY User,

It has been quiet for a while now - but we have stayed very active during the past months!

Today we are excited to announce the completely revised LIGHTIFY App 2.0 with new functions and an intuitive design!

Discover the redesign of our user interface:

The clean user interface gives you an easy and quick way of navigating through the app. It also offers many possibilities for personalization. The new “Home” screen provides quick access to the "Frequently Used" functions - as well as the possibility to create and sort own “Shortcuts”.

On the "Modules" screen you can now search for devices. By swiping to the left, short press or long press you can edit your Devices, Groups and Moods (formally called Scenes).

Three new features that will make your life easier:

• Sunrise and sunset routines can be added for all organizer- and sensor activities. You'll find this feature when setting the times.

• Now you can also start your dynamic presets with a scheduler.

• The continuous activity feature allows you to run your organizers from the selected start- until the end-day without interruption.

The new LIGHTIFY App 2.0 will soon be available in the Apple App Store and Google Playstore for free!

Sounds exciting? You can already download our new user manual and familiarize yourself with the new user interface and the complete range of functions.

We would love to hear how you like the new version 2.0! Please rate the app or contact our customer service at [email protected] for question or feedback.

Have fun and best regards,

Your LIGHTIFY Team

I've been googling, but I cant find anything.

I see that Osram has an open API, and that you can use WeMo with Lightify bulbs (but that requires WeMo hub?)

Does anyone know if there is any plans for IFTTT support out of the box? And/or something similar?

Omg, any info about alternatives/refunds? Especially the motion sensors from osram were incredible but will be obsolete then, or am I wrong?

I just bought a starter kit and 4 bulbs for my appartment since they were on a huge sale for boxing day. Setup was fine, everything worked fine right away. But after 2 days, the widget from the app started glitching out, then the app stopped working. On top of that it seems if I ever accidentally use the light switch it messes it up a bit and resets it to the original default setting.

I thought I could just carry on using the regular light switches but use the app to dim/change colors, but this seems like it's not an option. Which means if I go to the bathroom and forget my phone in my room, i have to go back to get it just to turn the light on.

This would all be tolerable IF the app actually worked properly even 90% of the time. First the android home screen widget, which made using the app much less annoying, is pretty much completely useless. It worked fine for like a day and is now totally fucked. No commands work and it just flashes "loading" a bunch.

The actual app works fine a lot of the time, but sometimes it's reaaally laggy like 5-10 seconds to register my command. And then sometimes a light either will turn on when I press it, but then go out a couple seconds later, and keep doing this until I give up on it for a while, or the opposite (won't turn off and stay off).

I've reset every bulb, reset the hub, all the updates are done, after I reset everything it worked ok for like a day and a half but now it's having issues again.

The only things I've identified as potential triggers are: The bathroom lights possibly get glitchy after I shower? Are they insanely sensitive to humidity?

And also my wife uses the app logged into the same account and there is a possibility if we both use it at the same time it causes issues?

I'm considering just putting the regular not "smart" (wouldn't use that word to describe these bulbs) bulbs back in and just accepting the loss (I got them for 7$ a light on sale which I guess should've been a warning sign).

Is there anything I should try before I give up? Or is this just a crap product?

Hey, beautiful Lightify people,

We’re a startup from beautiful Stockholm, Sweden that has developed a privacy first home automation companion called Thing • Connect.

It lets you control your smart devices intuitively by talking or typing, free from vendor lock in and without anyone listening in to what you say. A digital assistant for your computer that lets you control a wide range of devices easily. Mix, match and group devices regardless of manufacturers and name them whatever you want and control them with natural language. Easy as pie.

Unintrusive and unified controls for multiple manufacturers because you and your home deserve it. What Spotify, IKEA Trådfri, Philips Hue, TP-Link, LifX, Osram Lightify and WeMo have in common. For Windows and Mac.

We’re obviously super excited about this and would love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to check out https://thing.se for more info and also take a glance at our privacy manifesto at https://thing.se/privacy/

Feel free to PM me or tc_pelle if you have any questions or feedback.

Thanks!

William Dahlheim

CEO and Co-founder

Just reset my gateway in the app because of several problems with it being offline all the time and it not responding in time. So now I’m trying to set it up again but when I try to connect to the Lightify WiFi the app doesn’t recognize it and doesn’t let me proceed with the setup. But I’m definitely connected to it. The pop up telling I should check if I’m connected to the WiFi has an additional number of the serial number in the WiFi name, the WiFi name in the set up page doesn’t. Don’t know if that’s part of the problem or the solution. I just hope Osram or ledvance whatever will just give me a new one. I’m ducking tired of this shit. Got nearly all of my Lightify products replaced Because they broke in the warranty.

Just wondering if there are any Chinese or other knockoffs that are compatible with Lightify? Thanks for any help.

Thought I'd throw this up. Hue bridge v2 and Lightify bulbs worked together while back but Osram issues an update which broke this on the bulb. Phillips have updated now and it's back.

Lightify is a great system but the integrations are not as good as Hue. Want to alert yourself with flashing lights when fire is detected? Hue has your back

I'm getting mixed messages. There has been a known bug in the firmware for Osram Lightify bulbs that make them unreliable repeaters for ZHA. Gave them a pretty bad reputation. Was this ever fixed?

Hi, noob here again. So I unlinked my osram lightify Europe account from Google home, basically as i didn't know what I was doing, now when I've got to add it back in it fails everytime. It goes through the authorisation part throws up a 404 error on the browser but the Google home app says it has successfully added the account but it doesn't and the account doesn't jump to the top of devices list in the home app.

Lights work fine with the lightify app but the account just won't add the Google home. I've spoken to Google home support they took through the usual of resetting router, Google home uninstalling apps etc but not still won't add.

Anyone out there had the same issue or knows how to fix it? Thanks.

Current version: 1.1.3.39

New version: 1.2.2.0

Was looking for info before I move ahead

edit: This morning I have installed this update on two (2) different Lightify Gateways. Both times, after allowing (as advised) more than 15 minutes for the update to complete, my Android Lightify app reported "update failed". When I logged out of that Gateway's Lightify account and logged back in, the Gateway reported being updated to the new 1.2.2.0 firmware. Gateway Zigbee remains at 1.2.0.68.

I have not yet rebooted either Gateway. I will do that next and see if anything else "magical" happens

Find out it does not work in the EU.. just US. Why is this stupid limitation in place?

I've got a lightify gateway, and I was wondering if it pairs with anything else (including, but not limited to Hue bulbs). I've seen old information implying no, but nothing in the past year.

As many of you know, the Osram app is appalling for multiple reasons. Are there any alternative apps that work with it?

I'm trying to log into my lightify app for North America but it wouldn't allow me to do so. When I try to reset my password using the link and the code it sends to my email it just says "oops, something went wrong!". I've been trying for several weeks and the same thing happens every single time. Does anyone know any reason for this happening? Any solution to this issue? Thanks for your help.

It seems like devices that connect to my Lightify gateway either take 2-3 tries to get lights to respond to a command or take 4-5 seconds to respond. Devices such as my Android and Google Home. I've gone through the firmware updates as well as messed with router settings, etc. Any other suggestions?

Has anyone gotten these, either through Wink or a Lightify Gateway?
The October Wink Hub firmware update posted on the Wink Blog supposedly included several Lightify firmware updates. The firmware update, version 0.0b10 / 2.3b02 applies to:
Sylvania A19 Dimmable (Model No. 74696)
Sylvania A19 RGBW (Model No. 73693)
Sylvania Flush Mount Adjustable White (Model No. 72567)
0.0b10 / 2.3b04, applies to:
Sylvania PAR38 Dimmable (Model No. 74580)

Note that the previous OSRAM/Sylvania 0.1b02 / 0.4b92 corresponded to 01020492 in the Lightify app.

My Hub 1.8 updated to this latest 4.2.5 fimware about 2 weeks ago. I have four (4) of the 73693 A19 RGBW bulbs, and none of them have been updated.

Does anyone else use the Lightify pro gateway?

Interested in the lack of apparent support for this platform in recent times, and wondering what anyone else has for their experience.

I can not get my lightify 15" edge-lit to connect to my smarthing hub. It will find it but will not connect fully so I can control it

Any help, plz? It's weird being without that thing.

Hi everybody, (hi Dr.Nick). I recently bought a Lightify gateway and bulb brand new on eBay. This week I got an additional bulb from eBay but it was used. The bulb works fine but the app cannot find it. I've done the whole switch off switch on thing and even tried it in different sockets but it still can't be found. Anyone have any ideas what I can do?

After 3 years on Lightify and tons of problems with the hardware, software and ecosystem. I have to say, EVERYTHING was instantly better when I went to Phillips Hue. I wish I'd done this years ago.

As per title....

Philips did the Hue range a couple of weeks back, are Osram going to do it fairly soon?