LIFX
LIFX GU10 Colour & White
- Native integration
- Local control
- Wi-Fi
Prices verified November 2026
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A Wi-Fi GU10 that needs no hub and talks to Home Assistant over your LAN through the built-in LIFX integration, so it keeps working if LIFX's cloud is unreachable. The catch is the usual Wi-Fi-bulb one: every spot is its own client on your router, so a ceiling of six or eight of them is a lot of DHCP leases and a lot of 2.4 GHz chatter compared with a Zigbee downlight set. Setup is trivial if Home Assistant is on the same subnet as the bulbs; put the bulbs on another VLAN and you must add each by IP.
What can Home Assistant control on the LIFX GU10 Colour & White?
| Control | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Light | Light | On/off, brightness, colour and colour temperature, plus Pulse and Colour loop effects. |
| Identify | Button | Flashes the bulb so you can tell which spot is which in a multi-bulb room. |
| Restart | Button | Reboots a misbehaving bulb without touching the switch. |
| Signal strength | Sensor | RSSI diagnostic, disabled by default; useful for finding spots with weak Wi-Fi. |
Built into Core as 'lifx', Local Polling every 10 seconds: changes made from the LIFX app or a wall switch can take up to 10 seconds to show in Home Assistant. Exposes a light entity (brightness, colour, Pulse and Colour loop effects), Identify and Restart buttons, and a disabled-by-default RSSI diagnostic sensor. Discovery is by UDP broadcast, Zeroconf, HomeKit and DHCP and needs Home Assistant on the same subnet; for bulbs on another network add them by host. Upgrading from very old setups required re-adding each light as its own config entry. The HA docs also point to HomeKit Controller if you want push updates and less network traffic.
Specs
| connectivity | Wi-Fi, no hub required — per the Home Assistant LIFX integration page (listed under 'Color' lights, GU10) |
|---|---|
| lumens wattage colour range | not verified: uk.lifx.com/products/lifx-gu10 returned an error/429 on 2026-11-01; a search-result snippet of the EU LIFX page quoted 400 lm, 6 W, 2500K–9000K, 60 degree beam — treat as unconfirmed and UK figures may differ |
How does the LIFX GU10 Colour & White compare?
| Product | From | Protocol | Local control | Integration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIFX GU10 Colour & White (this product) | — | Wi-Fi | Yes | Native |
| Athom WLED WS2812B LED strip controller (pre-flashed) | £6.5 | Wi-Fi | Yes | Native |
| Elgato Key Light Air (MK.2) | £129.99 | Wi-Fi | Yes | Native |
| Govee E14 Smart Bulb RGBWW | £24.99 | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth | Cloud | Cloud |
Frequently asked questions
- Does the LIFX GU10 Colour & White work with Home Assistant locally?
- Yes. The LIFX GU10 Colour & White is controlled locally in Home Assistant through a built-in Home Assistant core integration (lifx), so it keeps working if your internet connection or the LIFX cloud goes down. Control and state updates stay on your own network.
- Which protocol does the LIFX GU10 Colour & White use, and do I need a hub?
- The LIFX GU10 Colour & White uses Wi-Fi. To pair it with Home Assistant you need no hub — it joins your Wi-Fi network directly. LIFX's own hub is not required when you integrate through a built-in Home Assistant core integration (lifx).
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LIFX GU10 Colour & White
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