Nanoleaf's New $80 Smart Ceiling Light Works With Matter and HomeKit

[MacRumors]

Nanoleaf today launched the Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light, an affordable Matter-compatible lighting product. With a dual-sided design, there's a main downlight and an upward backlight for a layered lighting glow. Each side can be controlled individually for bright light or an ambient lighting option.

The light has 196 LEDs inside, with up to 2600 lumens. White light ranges from 2200K to 6500K, supporting tones that change throughout the day to match natural light. Nanoleaf says it was built with RG0 Low Blue Light technology to reduce blue light hazard and eye strain.

There are 28 color zones, and millions of colors are supported for gradients. According to Nanoleaf, the Multicolor Ceiling Light has a Color Rendering Index of 95, offering "vivid-natural looking colors."

The light measures 13.8 inches, and it is 1.18 inches thick. It is a hard-wired light that's meant to be installed with a standard light switch, though it also works with the Nanoleaf Sense+ Wireless Smart Switch.

Nanoleaf's new light supports Matter over Wi-Fi, so it can connect to a HomeKit setup for use with Siri and the Home app. It also works with the Nanoleaf app, which offers hundreds of color scenes and support for music pairing. For multi-color lighting scenes with gradients, the Nanoleaf app is required because HomeKit doesn't support that.

The Nanoleaf Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light can be purchased from Amazon.com or the Nanoleaf website for $80.

Article Link: Nanoleaf's New $80 Smart Ceiling Light Works With Matter and HomeKit

 

[McWetty]

Nanoleaf makes some of the lowest quality lighting gear I’ve ever used. I have had their canvas panels, triangles, and essentials and ALL of them have died.

 

[ClaraStahlbaum]

Why would I want a "Smart light" over one I can simply turn on and off with a simple switch?

 

[alexandr]

Why would I want a "Smart light" over one I can simply turn on and off with a simple switch?

For various reasons, such as automations. BUT you can also get a simple smart switch. 🙂

 

[EgbertAttrick]

As someone who is presently going through the painstaking process of replacing an entire house full of Nano bulbs to Phillips Hue bulbs… don’t. Just don’t. Nano has issues with matching color between bulbs, general reliability, LED life and, most maddeningly, connection stability. If you want to live a life watching you Home app say UPDATING 30% of the time (or more for some of my bulbs), then buy this. Otherwise, run!

 

[terrywfoster]

The quality of Nanoleaf is gone to hell. I used to have a whole house full of them. Recently, they have all had issues and have started to fail. Avoid Nanoleaf if possible.

 

[RALentz]

Note that it's only 2600 lumens. Go check the box of the light bulbs you use to compare and realize that 2600 likely is not going to fill a room like you might want, unless you just want accent / mood lighting.

Govee has some similar lights that offer 4300 lumens, or more. The 4300 is still on sale at $90 for five more hours: https://www.amazon.com/Govee-Ceiling-Fixture-2700K-6500K-Dimmable/dp/B0F1N5HPVH/

Here's the 4800 lumens version also on sale for five more hours at $125: https://www.amazon.com/Govee-Ceiling-Fixture-Compatible-2700K-6500K/dp/B0GSYPZ4L5/

-R

 

[Black_Mage]

The ultimate night light?

 

[J InTech82]

Why would I want a "Smart light" over one I can simply turn on and off with a simple switch?

My light switch is by my front door. Opposite side of where my bed is. Getting all comfy in bed and turning off my light while I’m in bed? Game changer.

 

[DocMultimedia]

I've never had any problems with my Nano stuff. But it's only three years old at this point, so we'll see how it goes long term.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

I wonder how well this light would work as a sunrise simulator to help you wake up in the morning in a bedroom that doesn't have an optimally-oriented window to catch the sunrise. It could run on an automation to make it gradually brighten in the morning, and gradually shift from 2200K to 6500K to further simulate a sunrise. Though I wonder if its 2600 lumens, mounted in the ceiling, would be as effective at getting through your closed eyelids as a bedside sunrise simulator.

 

[lazyjj1]

No thread no thanks

 

[baryon]

Nanoleaf makes some of the lowest quality lighting gear I’ve ever used. I have had their canvas panels, triangles, and essentials and ALL of them have died.

I bought a Nano leaf triangle set for a film shoot and holy crap was it a piece of absolute garbage. The worst piece of "tech" I've ever laid my hands on. And expensive.

Setting it up was a nightmare. The Home app kept asking me to "scan the code", but there was no code anywhere on the device or box. Then it asked me to type it in manually - but there is no code!!

Then it asked me to "bring my phone close to the device", which did nothing, until I figured out that you had to bring it so close that it touches the actual buttons. No one ever told me this. Then although it found the device, it still failed to pair. Then I realized you had to also pair it in the nanoleaf app and use BOTH their app and the iOS home appin tandem for it to work. One app turns it on, the other changes the colors. You can't do both with just one app. I repeat: just using their app didn't work. Just using the home app didn't work. You need BOTH.

But use it once, and it will stop working until you set the whole thing up again from scratch, every time you want to change the color. Turns out it came from factory with a faulty firmware, which was really difficult to update, it kept stalling at 20%. Then once we got it to work after hours of trying, it was flickering on camera like a cheap LED from 2009. Modern LEDs have fast power supply switching that don't flicker on camera. Not this piece of junk.

So it's a piece of junk scam waste of money. Stay the hell away from this joke of a product! Companies that sell overpriced crap like this should go out of business and pay back all the money they scammed out of people.

 

[GumaRodak]

I purchased gowee light and read some china spyware behind ot afterwards, cant check if its true or not. The light istself is ok

 

[drumcat]

GTA VI lighting?

 

[droplink]

I wonder how well this light would work as a sunrise simulator to help you wake up in the morning in a bedroom that doesn't have an optimally-oriented window to catch the sunrise. It could run on an automation to make it gradually brighten in the morning, and gradually shift from 2200K to 6500K to further simulate a sunrise. Though I wonder if its 2600 lumens, mounted in the ceiling, would be as effective at getting through your closed eyelids as a bedside sunrise simulator.

I have tried to set something like that up.
I have some dark corners of my place that I would like to illuminate to match the outside, but the software, the Apple Home app, is simply not up to the task yet.
Things like this that should be so standard are incredibly complicated to setup.

No to mention noone has yet made the hardware+software for the most common use case for lights; "when it is dark (outside), turn on the lights, if it is light again, turn the lights off".

A fancy remote and colors does not "smart lights" make.

 

[dannys1]

Why would I want a "Smart light" over one I can simply turn on and off with a simple switch?

Why would I want a simple switch when I can just light and blow out a candle?

 

[dannys1]

Thread and Matter have to be the most pointless additions to the smarthome space ever, an abject failure. Apple should have just put zigbee and z-wave radios into Apple TVs instead.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Nanoleaf makes some of the lowest quality lighting gear I’ve ever used. I have had their canvas panels, triangles, and essentials and ALL of them have died.

Oh man, that sucks. I started my Hue light bulb collection around 2014 and all of them still work and are in use.

I have some plain LED bulbs I bought around 2011-2012 for $4.95 each that still work today. Wish I could still buy these instead of the crappy $10 LED bulb packs that die as quickly as incandescent bulbs used to when I had those. I’ll happily pay for quality.

 

[McWetty]

Oh man, that sucks. I started my Hue light bulb collection around 2014 and all of them still work and are in use.

I have some plain LED bulbs I bought around 2011-2012 for $4.95 each that still work today. Wish I could still buy these instead of the crappy $10 LED bulb packs that die as quickly as incandescent bulbs used to when I had those. I’ll happily pay for quality.

I have since replaced as much smart home stuff as possible with Hue and Caseta. It’s like night and day. And Home Assistant with HomeKit Bridge makes it all even better. Very happy with my smart home gear now.

 

[Jdalbo]

Nanoleaf today launched the Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light, an affordable Matter-compatible lighting product. With a dual-sided design, there's a main downlight and an upward backlight for a layered lighting glow. Each side can be controlled individually for bright light or an ambient lighting option.

The light has 196 LEDs inside, with up to 2600 lumens. White light ranges from 2200K to 6500K, supporting tones that change throughout the day to match natural light. Nanoleaf says it was built with RG0 Low Blue Light technology to reduce blue light hazard and eye strain.

There are 28 color zones, and millions of colors are supported for gradients. According to Nanoleaf, the Multicolor Ceiling Light has a Color Rendering Index of 95, offering "vivid-natural looking colors."

The light measures 13.8 inches, and it is 1.18 inches thick. It is a hard-wired light that's meant to be installed with a standard light switch, though it also works with the Nanoleaf Sense+ Wireless Smart Switch.

Nanoleaf's new light supports Matter over Wi-Fi, so it can connect to a HomeKit setup for use with Siri and the Home app. It also works with the Nanoleaf app, which offers hundreds of color scenes and support for music pairing. For multi-color lighting scenes with gradients, the Nanoleaf app is required because HomeKit doesn't support that.

The Nanoleaf Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light can be purchased from Amazon.com or the Nanoleaf website for $80.

Article Link: Nanoleaf's New $80 Smart Ceiling Light Works With Matter and HomeKit

Wasted a lot of money with this brand. Dumped it all went back to HUE. Terrible tech. Pure junk.

 

[2467536]

An urgent warning to anyone reading this: Please do yourself a favor and never buy anything from Nanoleaf. They are hands down the worst tech products I’ve purchased in years. Between the endless hardware failures and persistent software bugs, the issues simply never go away. Save your money and your sanity. Run! Run fast! Don't look back!

 

[uiop.]

I have 40+ wifi connected smart home devices and Nanoleaf consistently is the most unstable and is regularly unreachable. Their customer support is also less than useful- I had a controller go out on my Aurora panels and they told me to find a used one online because they don't make them anymore and were out of stock. Awesome! I regret dumping so much money into their panels and I certainly cannot imagine hardwiring any of their cheap junk into my home.

 

[Rychiar]

No thread no thanks

Nanoleaf thread is garbage

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

We have bunches of these smart bulbs. Not nanoleaf, but similar. They're pretty cool. One of the floor lamps in the master bedroom is set to come on in the evening and switch to a setting called "candle light". Makes the bulb flicker and change color and intensity like a candle.

Honestly, the best thing we did was install Leviton motion sensing switches in the bathrooms and laundry room. You walk in and the light comes on. Nice when your hands are full of dirty puppy...or laundry.