If you’re rocking some luscious LED smart lights in your home and you want to be able to control them from your Ubuntu desktop, check out Corluma.
Corluma is a cross-platform light controller app available for macOS, iOS, Android, and — of interest to those of you reading this — Ubuntu-based Linux distributions. While the mobile and Mac versions of the app are paid software the Ubuntu version is free (as in beer).
The aim of the app is to allow you to control all your lights from one app, without having to configure IFTT, smart assistant integrations, etc. For some of these lights, there aren’t other options for controlling them on Ubuntu.
So if you’ve LIFX lights, or those pricey (but pretty) NanoLeaf tiles, you can control all of them from within one app, at the same time — an undoubted boon. Better yet, the app works over the local Wi-Fi network so there are no cloud services to sign up to, or logins to faff around with.
Now, I don’t have any smart lights that are compatible with this app for me to test, so I can’t illuminate (sorry) this post with much first-hand perspective. While I have written about how to control Hue lights on Ubuntu before Corluma is the first tool I’ve seen that encompasses support for more than just Hue.
Corluma features:
- Control smart lights from different brands in one app
- Groups smart lights across brands into rooms or custom groups
- Create custom palettes, choose from defaults, or pull palettes stored locally
- Save presets to quickly apply again in future
- Save presets and groups locally
More features are planned, including integration with the Hue EDK so Corluma can support advanced dynamic effects; adding relative timeout options; improved colour pickers; and support for Windows and Raspberry Pis.
In the mean time, if you’ve got compatible hardware go download Corluma for Linux — just be sure to pop back here so you can enlighten (heh) how well it works, down in the comments.