United StatesSummon a thunderstorm light show using your LIFX lights. Watch your lights pulse and flash to the sounds of a storm.* THUNDERSTORMS • Strong Thunderstorm — Heavy rain with frequent lightning and thunder nearby Lights pulse quickly to the sound of heavy rain. Booming sounds of thunder accompany bright flashes of light. • Normal Thunderstorm — Steady rain with a full range of lightning and thunder Lights pulse to the sound of rain. The sound of thunder can be heard from various distances. The closer the lightning, the louder the sound, and the brighter the flashes of light! • Weak Thunderstorm — Light rain with occasional lightning and thunder far off Lights pulse slowly to the sound of light rain. Dim flashes of light are followed by soft sounds of thunder. • Passing Thunderstorms — Rain and lightning intensity changes as the storms pass Lights pulse and flash at different rates to correspond with the current strength of the storm. SETTINGS • Change the color and brightness of your lights • Toggle rain sound effects • Change rain audio (default, heavy rain, steady rain, light rain, rain on tin roof) • Set rain volume • Toggle rain light effects • Change rain pulse rate (default, slow, medium, fast) • Target lights for rain light effects • Change rain transition effects (pulse, fade quickly, fade slowly) • Change the color and brightness of the rain light effects • Toggle thunder sound effects • Set thunder volume • Change delay lightning • Toggle delay thunder • Toggle lightning light effects • Target lights for lightning light effects • Change lightning transition effects (random, pulse, fade quickly, fade slowly, flicker) • Change lightning/thunder occurrence (default, never, occasional, normal, frequent, unreal) • Change the color and max brightness of the lightning light effects • Change starting storm for Passing Thunderstorms (weak, normal, strong) • Change cycle time for Passing Thunderstorms (15 min, 30 min, 60 min) • Toggle background sounds (birds, cicadas, crickets, frogs) • Set background volume • Change default end state (on, off, revert) • Change sleep end state (on, off, revert) • Auto-start, Auto-stop, and Auto-restart thunderstorm (auto-restart activates auto-start and auto-stop) LIGHTS / GROUPS Select one or more lights for your thunderstorm light show on the Lights/Groups tab. Choose a group that you set up using your LIFX app, or create a new group in the Thunderstorm for LIFX app. To edit an in-app group in the list, swipe the item to the left and tap the pencil icon. When you add, remove, or change lights, pull down the list to refresh. ADDITIONAL FEATURES • Lightning on demand. Start a storm and tap one of the lightning buttons at the bottom of the page. • Sleep Timer with audio fade out. Sleep End State setting lets you choose what happens to the state of the lights when the sleep timer ends. • Bluetooth and AirPlay supported via Control Center. Delay Lightning setting lets you choose how much time to delay the lightning to compensate for the wireless audio delay. I'd love to hear your thoughts and appreciate you taking the time to rate the app. By leaving a review, I can continue to improve Thunderstorm for LIFX and create a great experience for you and future users. Thank you! —Scott *Internet connection and LIFX Cloud account required
Good but not perfect
Would be great if you could set the max brightness of the lights. Occassionally buggy but that's standard from LiFX
United StatesTake all of my money.
I will buy your light apps again and again and again. Thunderstorms is CHOICE. the firestorm app still needs a certain Juno se quoi BUT. Just lovely all around. Bravo Sir. Ps. Thank you for allowing me to darken the sky and keep the flashes bright. 🤍🤍🤍
United StatesExcellent App
Having used LIFX for the past three years, I’ve seen a lot of issues come and go. From lights not syncing to firmware problems, etc. I know it’s far from perfect but the developers of LIFX have strived to make it better. With that said, this app is phenomenal. It does exactly what it says it does and it does it WELL. I understand some folks may have had issues with it, but before you blame this app I’d take a look and see if your LIFX bulbs are really working the way they should. With my current setup (30+ bulbs) this app makes the whole house feel like a thunderstorm. Paired with a solid audio system and it’s the next best thing to having a real storm. Kudos to the developer for such a nice piece of software. Give it a try!
United StatesHue version works, but no dice with LIFX
I have recessed lighting by Hue and the version of the app for that works fine. My normal lamp bulbs are LIFX and while I’m glad there’s an app that exists for LIFX (because they are superior to Hue in almost every way!), the app just doesn’t find my lights. I’ve tried everything including resetting both of my LIFX bulbs but it just doesn’t find them so this app is totally useless, along with the firestorm one because I bought the bundle. I emailed support a while back but haven’t received a response. I’d be willing to change my review if the developer actually offered some support but until then, 1 star.
United StatesToo confusing and just not that good.
I’ve had the app for Hue ( different developer ) for a long time and couldn’t be happier with the simplicity and experience of the app. Friends all love it when I crank the stereo and put the storm on. I bought two LIFX bulbs for my room and downloaded this app, and instantly wish i hadn’t. It’s only 3 bucks I know but plain and simple I just won’t use it because it just doesn’t meet the standard of my other app for HUE. If you’d like a cool experience I recommend buying HUE lights and download “Hue Thunderstorm”
United StatesGood start, but needs some work
In general, the app produces a pretty cool effect. There's some issues with it, though. The biggest is using the cloud API instead of the LAN API. The LIFX app uses the latter if the device is on the same network as the bulbs, which is why it responds so fast. For those of us with a lot of LIFX bulbs, this thunderstorm app causes a lot of "too many requests" errors, which could be remedied by just keeping it all local. Second, it's not terribly clear how to use groups, and even once I got that figured out, setting up colors caused some unusual responses in bulbs in the rest of the house anyway - such as the app thinking my white bulbs were set to a color. While it limited the changing effects to the specified groups, it still changed colors of all lights in my house (where possible). I confirmed that I had selected the same group in all sections of the settings. Third, the thunder sound seems a bit canned. It lacks a lot of the sonic depth a real thunder roll or lightning strike would produce. It would really put the overall storm effect to great lengths if higher end sound clips were used that had a lot of deep bass (especially for those with a sonic shaker). At present, there's very little bass. I can see that the creator went to good lengths elsewhere striving for a realistic soundscape, like placing the thunder at varying distances, or delaying the sound relative to the lightning like you'd experience in a real storm. Overall, I think the app is a great start, but could use a bit of polishing.
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