Unable to clear group information off a bulb

[lightbow]

Currently there is no way to remove a bulb from a group using RxLifx-Swift, from what I can tell. I'm trying to figure out the right data to send, and hope to hear back from LIFX on this thread

[flowsprenger]

To my understanding the apps will treat group ids with all bytes set to 0 as no group assigned, afterwards it will still respond to GetGroup messages and return the 0 id, but your findings sounds like that is not enough.

[flowsprenger]

@lightbow try also setting the Location to a 0 id I think that will have the desired effect

[flowsprenger]

@lightbow I tried to get someone from LIFX to officially comment, but seems I didn't have more luck than you :(
There is some undocumented information that we cannot read or write (and that I cannot comment on any further myself), so there is not much we can do at this stage to reset a bulb from group and location for the LIFX app. Well, we can reset group and locations but the LIFX app itself additionally does something else...

[lightbow]

Mark from LIFX just supplied the following information:

A brand new light that has never had a group set will respond to GetGroup with this response :
{"group": "00000000000000000000000000000000", "label": "", "updated_at": 0}

The LIFX apps treat a group id of all zeros as NULL id value and doesn’t display it as a real group.
If you want to delete the group information on a light, you should set the group id to all zeros and the label to be empty. eg.
{"group": "00000000000000000000000000000000", "label": "", "updated_at": 1526875910236}

[flowsprenger]

I guess that leaves us with as much information as we already had, no?
Yes you can set the group and location to all 0, like Mark and I suggested, but the LIFX app might not treat the light like an unclaimed light.