| Thing Type | On/Off | Brightness | Color | Color Zone | (Abs) Color Temperature | (Abs) Color Temperature Zone | HEV Cycle | Infrared | Tile Effects |
The binding is able to auto-discover all lights in a network over the LIFX UDP protocol.
Therefore all lights must be turned on.
*Note:* To get the binding working, all lights must be added to the WLAN network first with the help of the [LIFX smart phone applications](https://www.lifx.com/pages/app).
The binding is NOT able to add or detect lights outside the network.
## Thing Configuration
Each light needs a Device ID or Host as a configuration parameter.
The device ID is printed as a serial number on the light and can also be found within the native LIFX Android or iOS application.
But usually the discovery works quite reliably, so that a manual configuration is not needed.
However, in the thing file, a manual configuration looks e.g. like
| abstemperature | Number | This channel supports adjusting the color temperature in Kelvin. | colorlight, colorhevlight, colorirlight, colormzlight, tilelight, whitelight |
| abstemperaturezone | Number | This channel supports adjusting the zone color temperature in Kelvin. | colormzlight |
| brightness | Dimmer | This channel supports adjusting the brightness value. | whitelight |
| color | Color | This channel supports full color control with hue, saturation and brightness values. | colorlight, colorhevlight, colorirlight, colormzlight, tilelight |
| colorzone | Color | This channel supports full zone color control with hue, saturation and brightness values. | colormzlight |
| effect | String | This channel represents a type of light effect (e.g. for tile light: off, morph, flame) | tilelight |
| hevcycle | Switch | This channel supports starting and stopping the HEV clean cycle. | colorhevlight |
| infrared | Dimmer | This channel supports adjusting the infrared value. *Note:* IR capable lights only activate their infrared LEDs when the brightness drops below a certain level. | colorirlight |
| signalstrength | Number | This channel represents signal strength with values 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; 0 being worst strength and 4 being best strength. | colorlight, colorhevlight, colorirlight, colormzlight, tilelight, whitelight |
| temperature | Dimmer | This channel supports adjusting the color temperature from cold (0%) to warm (100%). | colorlight, colorhevlight, colorirlight, colormzlight, tilelight, whitelight |
| temperaturezone | Dimmer | This channel supports adjusting the zone color temperature from cold (0%) to warm (100%). | colormzlight |
The *color* and *brightness* channels have a "Power On Brightness" configuration option that is used to determine the brightness when a light is switched on.
The *color* channels have a "Power On Color" configuration option that is used to determine the hue, saturation, brightness levels when a light is switched on.
If both "Power on brightness" and "Power On Color" configuration options are defined, "Power on brightness" option overrides the brightness level defined on the "Power on color" configuration option.
The *temperature* channels have a "Power On Temperature" configuration option that is used to determine the color temperature when a light is switched on. When it is left empty, the color temperature of a light remains unchanged when a light is switched on or off.
MultiZone lights (*colormzlight*) have several channels (e.g. *colorzone0*, *temperaturezone0*, *abstemperaturezone0*, etc.) that allow for controlling specific zones of the light.
Changing the *color*, *temperature* and *abstemperature* channels will update the states of all zones.
The *color*, *temperature* and *abstemperature* channels of MultiZone lights always return the same state as *colorzone0*, *temperaturezone0*, *abstemperaturezone0*.
The *hevcycle* channels have an optional "HEV Cycle Duration" configuration option that can be used to override the cycle duration configured in the light.
The **porch** light is a LIFX+ BR30 that has a *colorirlight* thing type which supports *color*, *temperature* and *infrared* channels.
The **ceiling** light is a LIFX Z with 2 strips (16 zones) that has a *colormzlight* thing type which supports *color*, *colorzone*, *temperature* and *temperaturezone* channels.
Finally, **kitchen** is a White 800 (Low Voltage) light that has a *whitelight* thing type which supports *brightness* and *temperature* channels.
Either create a single *Color* item linked to the *color* channel and define *Switch*, *Slider* and *Colorpicker* entries with this item in the sitemap.
Or create items for each type (*Color*, *Switch*, *Dimmer*) and define the correspondent entries in the sitemap.
