diff --git a/light9/web/live/Light9LiveControls.ts b/light9/web/live/Light9LiveControls.ts
--- a/light9/web/live/Light9LiveControls.ts
+++ b/light9/web/live/Light9LiveControls.ts
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ export class Light9LiveControls extends 
     log(`found ${classes.length} device classes`);
     uniq(sortBy(classes, "value"), true).forEach((dc) => {
       sortBy(this.graph.subjects(U("rdf:type"), dc), "value").forEach((dev) => {
+        log(`found dev ${dev.value}`)
         this.devices.push(dev as NamedNode);
       });
     });
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ export class Light9LiveControls extends 
     }
     u.searchParams.set("effect", effectStr); // this escapes : and / and i wish it didn't
     window.history.replaceState({}, "", u.href);
-    return log("wrote new url", u.href);
+    log("wrote new url", u.href);
   }
 
   newEffect() {