@johnpoz Lifx asked me to run a diagnosis of the bulb and phone app.
The other person's house has no LAN. I used the other person's phone to connect phone Wi-Fi to the bulb.
The other person has no router, just a phone hotspot to the computer for Internet.
The bulb may be bad, but Lifx continues with support suggestions.
The Lifx bulb is:
Model:
MAC address:
D0:73:D5:00:2E:8B (Serial number on side of bulb).
Name:
BUL-11-A21E27-W
I have other bulbs too, but they are Bluetooth only and each needs their own app or remote control. It's such a mess and hassle. I would like to have control in once place. My understanding is I can control them in one place, via Home Assistant? Haven't figured out how yet, but Home Assistant is installed as a VM and traffic is working via the VM pfSense router.
I am so put off by Proprietary products and their exclusions of other brands, that I will work with the FOSS.
I think the Lifx bulb is Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. I just bought it as a start up supporter decades ago, but it has never worked. I would only buy 'smart' bulbs that could work with Home Assistant in the future, although I haven't figured out how to connect multiple bulbs to Home Assistant yet.
pfSense has not filtering.
the Wi-Fi AP UAP-AC-HD is all default, so unsure about its potential filtering?
Lifx did some troubleshooting with the Wi-Fi AP, but I can't control the AP to set channels to 1 and 11. 2.4 GHz is being used though. I'm awaiting UniFi support to make the channel control thingy work...it's been weeks of no solution on that front.