Yeah. This is not my reason. I just want the damn lights to work. They only respond correctly about 60% of the time.
LIFX uses both LAN and cloud. The smartphone app prefers to work over wifi, and it’s less reliable over wifi, possibly because of the choice of UDP??? But it’s really bad, UDP shouldn’t be this bad. People on the LIFX forums say when they write Python programs, it works 100%, thus the app is explicitly coded badly.
Turning off wifi every time I open the LIFX app is extremely annoying (and slow).
Honestly the lights glitch even with wifi disabled on my phone, and through voice commands with my Google Home Hub… both cloud, so… meh.