UDP receive_many() Removal (7.0.1)¶

Version 7.0.1 removes UdpTransport.receive_many(). The method was deprecated in 5.5.0 with a scheduled 6.0 removal, but inadvertently remained available through 7.0.0.

Migration¶

For device discovery, use the public high-level API. It yields devices as they are found and owns the multi-response collection lifecycle:

from lifx import discover


async def discover_devices():
    async for device in discover():
        print(device.serial, device.ip)

Code that intentionally uses the low-level UDP transport can call receive() in a loop and decide when collection is complete:

from lifx.exceptions import LifxTimeoutError


async def receive_until_quiet(transport):
    packets = []
    while True:
        try:
            packets.append(await transport.receive())
        except LifxTimeoutError:
            return packets

Unlike receive_many(), receive() raises LifxProtocolError for an invalid packet size. Low-level callers should handle that exception according to their protocol requirements.