Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. I have a LifX bulb here and
what I'm going to do today is get this installed, and get it connected to my
Google Home device. Then I'm going to show you how to use that device, the
Google Home, to control your LifX bulbs. So let's get going. Okay so I'm
going to assume that you can get your light bulb open, plug it into a socket
and then go get the iPhone or Android LifX application.
You're going to have to register for an account. Once you do that, you're
going to hit the plus up at the top right of the screen, and you're going to hit
connect light. Now keep in mind your light bulb has to be on in order for
this to work. You're going to tap on add any light to the LifX app, and you want to
allow it to send you notifications in general. Here they're telling you
what next to do. You actually have to go to the Wi-Fi settings in your device.
Now I'm using an iPhone, but it's really the same process on an Android device.
You're going to find the new device down at the bottom mine's called LifX
Mini White and once you're done tapping on that, in an iPhone, it's actually
instantly connecting. However, you might have to put in a Wi-Fi password. It's just
LifX1234. Now once you return
back to the app after it's connected to your Wi-Fi, you're going to have the
light show up at the top of the app, and you can see that I could turn on and off
all lights. Or I could tap on the icon here and you're seeing me do it inside
the app right now. So you can actually just turn on and off the light and
there's a number of functions within the light itself in the LifX
app. You can actually adjust the brightness, you can also use a number of
the other features, but that's not the point of this video. We're going to get
LifX connected to the Google Home. Now next up, you should see this
notification come up. If you don't it's in the settings in the top left to
actually connect your lights to the cloud. Once you do that, here's what you
see in the app. You can see it's added groups and it's added rooms and you
could go ahead, and you could edit the settings of your light, and change the
room or the location it's in. I'm going to change the name of it because what
was given initially is obviously a pretty hard name to use. So I'm going to
call this life bulb. I'm not gonna do anything else right now with the
settings. We're just trying to get it connected to the Google Home, but you
could modify those. Now there is an update that's required, so go ahead and do
that update. Make sure you're on the newest update, and then once that's done
you're going to switch over to the Google Home application. Now this is a
fairly simple process. You're going to the menu and you're going to go to home
control. Then you're going to hit the plus at the bottom of the application
and scroll all the way down to LifX. Once you tap on that you're going to use
the same account login that you just used to sign up with LifX and then you
have to authorize after you've signed in. Then you can't see it, but up in the top left
it did say the accounts are linked. You just hit done in the top left
and now in your home control screen here's the life bulb. Now you could
adjust the room, you could change the name in your Google Home application if
you wanted to, but for now I think that's that's good because you're all connected
to your Google Home application. Now let's go ahead and do a demo.
"Turn off Life Bulb"
"Turn on Life Bulb"
"Life Bulb to 50%"