Light Lynx – polished light app and automation based on Zigbee2MQTT

Name: Light Lynx – polished light app and automation based on Zigbee2MQTT
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Author: vanviegen

by vanviegen·Feb 12, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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The Take

Fast, mobile-first interface that actually uses Zigbee groups and scenes to make lights change together instead of the staggered multi-device flicker most UIs produce. Automations run locally inside Zigbee2MQTT and the PWA caches state for instant launches — thoughtful touches like per-group permissions and client-side password hashing show the author worked through real deployment pain. Remote access via UPnP is a neat convenience, but it’s also the one place you should audit before exposing your network.

Post Description

I had my house built without any wired light switches. Instead: a lot of Zigbee switches, sensors and bulbs.

To manage all that, I've been using Zigbee2MQTT, and I've slowly been growing initially just some simple automation scripts, and then later a smartphone PWA for day-to-day light control tasks.

I decided to share it with the world, so I invested a bit (well, that turned out to be a rather large understatement) of time to make it ready for public usage. It's grown in scope and polish a lot! I'm pretty happy with its current state.

So, without further ado, here's Light Lynx: https://lightlynx.eu/

Currently it's a free hosted service for a product I made Open Source. I may consider selling some additional feature in the future - AI integration seems to be trendy these days :-) Who knows.. But for now I'm just glad to have it out there!