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I’m not saying it was bug free or worked in a consistent or intuitive manner all around as it didn’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took years until the basic features work as good as they did. I also like that the individual lights are within the groups as we’ve got 15 lights in our home so toggling individual lights had already become a bit unpractical.īut both of the above could have been integrated on top of the old UX instead of writing everything from scratch. It’s great to be able to adjust a groups brightness without first opening the group. With this said, although I’ve uninstalled the beta from my phone, I’ve kept it on my tablet to evaluate it a bit further. Long pressing as you suggest could have worked great with the old UI. I’ve been hoping for LIFX to make it possible to adjust the brightness of the groups, lights or even themes from the big old buttons. I just don’t see why most of this couldn’t have been made as incremental improvements on the old app base. Some of the readers might be interested to know that the true discussion about the beta release happens actually on Reddit: I will also backup the current production version of the app and will continue using it until someone reports the new app is suitable for daily use again. I am forced to leave the beta program for the first time. Even us regular beta testers cannot be expected to control our lights with a broken app. I feel really bad that I have to say all this after clearly a lot of hours poured in… But as a usability oriented developer and as a beta tester for multiple years, my wish and a recommendation is to either pull this release out and return it back to the drawing board or release it as a separate “LIFX Alpha” app. The inconsistencies and inpracticalities of the new UI are so numerous I won’t bother listing them for this alpha version.

the on/off switch of a group turns all the lights in instead of off of one of the groups lights is on (this came out as a blinding experience last night when trying to turn off the bedside table reading light).

I have specifically reported this as a bug around 2 years ago with the previous app and it was fixed after my report

the light name is cut short as it no longer can span into two lines.

colors from the palette turn the brightness to maximum.

after returning from another app, the previously open color wheel or its power toggle do not work (100% reproducible on my Galaxy Tab S2).

taps on tabs get registered only if the tab label text is tapped (happens all the time on my 10" tablet).

after using the other tabs, the color wheel brightness does not occasionally respond before dimming the brightness.

sideways swipe from the middle of the wheel does not change tabs.

Has the new version been written from scratch? The primary feature of the app, color/brightness wheel, looks almost exactly the same but it has a worrying amount of regression :