ADD NANOLEAF SCENES INTO HOMEKIT to get the most out of your Smart Home Lighting
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- NEW VIDEO 🎬 ADD NANOLEAF SCENES INTO HOMEKIT to get the most out of your Smart Home Lighting
Did you know that you could add Nanoleaf Scenes and Light effects into Homekit? Well, you can and in this video, I'll show you how to get the most out of your smart lighting in your Homekit Smart Home. The Nanoleaf App includes some great light effects or what they call Scenes such as Beach Waves, Ripple and Northern Lights.
In addition to using these with Nanoleaf Essentials bulbs and light strips, you can move the scenes from the Nanoleaf App into Homekit and from there you can even add other Smart Accessories as your normally would. Pretty awesome!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:09 Thread
2:05 Nanoleaf effects
2:33 Creating effects from Nanoleaf App
4:23 Nanoleaf effects in Homekit
4:39 Conclusion
5:06 Rhombicosidodecahedron flashback 😂
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Group scenes are not available for Matter devices.
The problem I have is that it says it can't do this with matter devices. I paired the latest Essentials Lightstrip via Home App and it then insisted I finished configuration in app (Thread). There seems no way to get a favourite into the settign due to the restriction.
Any ideas, I'm desperate to get a 'Christmas' light show together with the HomePod playing Christmas songs..... Help!
Asking my tv remote to turn off my lights or turn them down while I watch a movie has felt so much cooler than it should 😎👌🏾
Haha So true!
This channel is underrated, i thinknyou deserve more folllowers and a bigger community, why don’t you do a collab with shane whatley?
I really appreciate your feedback - thank you so much for saying that! I just started in January, but having fun, and just trying to get a little better with each video. Shane is amazing, you never know 😉. Thanks for watching.
Great video Brad! I love Nanoleaf and thread! Literally every light bulb in my house has been replaced by a Nanoleaf A19 (not including bathrooms). I’ve been using their scenes in HomeKit for some time now. It’s so cool! The kiddos love it.
That is awesome! Great lights for a great price! These lights are a hit with my kids as well!
Hi Brad, thanks for the great tip adding a scene into HomeKit 🏴🇬🇧👍🏻
Happy to help Martin!
I didn't know that yet! Thanks for the tip! Try it soon!
The bloopers were great.
Thanks Brittany - That is just a fraction of all the takes it took to get that right! 😂
Great video Brad! Super helpful and explained well. Can’t say I’ve had the best experience with Nanoleaf Bulbs (even with a HomePod mini and new Apple TV) but the effects are great.
Thank you Adam. I had some issues at first with them not responding, but seems like there was a firmware update that fixed the issues for me. Hope you have better luck in the future!
Good stuff Brad. I'm glad they finally fixed the issue I had when all the scenes would come over. It's nice just having one or two as I hate having too many scenes.
Agree Eric. There are some neat effects in the Nanoleaf app so it's great to be able to keep them all together in the Home app! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video but how do I remove unwanted scenes that automatically show up when a Nanoleaf device is recognized. I hate have so many scenes that I didn’t create in my home app. Thanks in advance !
Really cool Brad, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Another great and helpful video. I only have one Nanoleaf bulb at the moment but am considering replacing my VOCOlinc light strip with Nanoleaf light strip and adding a few more light strips around the hous; in particular, the Kitchen area.
I fully support the Nanoleaf for VOCOlinc replacement! Thanks for watching!
Great video, you’ve got solid presentation skills!
Great video Brad - completely agree, there's no reason to buy Thread Nanoleaf products without a HomePod Mini / AppleTV 4K (2021) right now. Over bluetooth, they're painfully slow. Love the new backing track too!
Thank you! Nanoleaf was smart to be an early adopter of Thread. Just another reason (in case anyone needed one) to get a HP mini!
Oof i just ordered one without a homepod, but everything works? Its just a bit slower?
@@Zanarax Yes, should still work as long as it's in BLE range, but it will be much faster and more responsive once you add a Thread border router (like a HP mini). Enjoy!
@@TheBradLloyd thanks!
I just got Nanoleaf light bulb for our bedroom, and using main white light that will change based on time of day, but also want a "mood" lighting setting or scene. I turned on mood lighting, but then it stays on that purple color, and have to change it back if want white again. Is there a way around this, as I'm new to this bulb and scene. Sometimes may want mood lighting, but then want it to be standard white when the automation comes on at sunset or other time. Thanks
i love how i added these the my home in like 4 seconds with samsung now im pulling my skin off trying to get these connected because i have no hair left!
I love watching your videos. Could you please tell me with current iOS Nanoleaf app how can I delete scenes for my essentials bulbs in my dashboard? Pressing and holding it does not delete scene 4 or scene 5, etc
G'day Brad! Lovely to meet you mate! I've been following your channel along the past couple of months. New to homekit myself but LOVING it! :-)
Fast question / experience that I've got for you. I've tried Phillips Hue, Nanoleaf and LIFX. All with pros and cons.
My question: When using the nanoleaf, other than a warm white do you find all the other colours muted? I compare the LIFX to the nanoleaf and the reds are terrible on the nanoleaf. Do you find the same thing????
I love that the nanoleaf's have thread and from a 'no response' perspective. I have far less troubles with the nanoleaf.
Keep up the great work with your channel! I'm loving the content! Take care!
Hi Benjamin, thank you for watching and for the kind feedback!
I haven't compared the Nanoleaf with LIFX, but I could see the reds being slightly muted, compared to Philips hue, but I would only notice it side by side.
Thread definitely makes makes a big difference! I'm excited to see more Thread devices in the future.
Great content. Really enjoy learning more about what I can do with HomeKit via your videos. After watching this, I tested 1 bulb out, and then bought 7 more. Love them. Have you had any disconnections issues with them via thread? I had 3 out of 8 that were disconnecting. I think I fixed them finally but curious if it’s just a “me” thing.
Hi Andrew - these lights have all worked really well for me. Where I sometimes find issues is when I disconnect my HomePod minis (I'm constantly disconnecting/reconnecting my HomePod minis for testing), so sometimes I find it takes these lights a little time to fully adjust. Make sure you have the latest firmware and if you are still having issues try a factory reset.
@@TheBradLloyd thank you. I think I found my issue. I was factory restarting them on one lamp, then setting them up, and then while turned on, unscrewing the bulb and moving it to a chandelier and kept having issues. Once I did a factory reset, set up, then turned off the light itself and then moved the bulb, no more issue so far. Crossing my fingers. Thank you!!
Have you seen any issues with many Nanoleaf Essentials on Thread and more than one HomePod mini? I have 3 Homepods Minis and 24 bulbs and I’ve been seeing bulbs get stuck/delayed in “updating” in the Home app a lot.
They respond instantly once connected but can’t be controlled in that state.
Nanoleaf says it’s because of Apple’s HomePod Mini firmware, each HomePod that’s a Home Hub is constantly polling the bulbs for a connection. The bulbs only support so many connections at a time so the older ones drop off, and basically they’re stuck in this cycle.
Really unfortunate. They said the only workaround right now is unplugging any other HomePod Minis than the first one.
Hi Matthew. I have 6 minis and no issues. What I will say, is that when connecting/disconnect my HP minis (or if the power goes out for example) it sometimes takes awhile for my Thread devices to properly communicate again.
Hopefully this can be fixed for you with a future update.
@@TheBradLloyd thanks. It’s good to have anecdotal evidence of other people with similar setups without issues. I’ll pass that on to Nanoleaf and hope they can sort it out.
Are all of your bulbs on 1.6.8?
Homekit use scenes that have motion/Movement i.e. if I want a flashing scene will it use it or only solid one time colours
Hi Tony, Not 100% sure what you mean. Typically scenes in HomeKit work with single solid colours, however, if you want to add "effects" from the Nanoleaf app and move them into HomeKit, follow the steps in the vid. Hope that helps.
So essentially if you have the matter bulbs there is no way to create a specific scene in HomeKit ?
With the 2 extensions did you have to trim the light strip on the 55” screen? I just received my lights today. Anxious to install everything on my day off
Yes I did. The 1 M ext was too short, but 2 was a little too long. Enjoy!
@@TheBradLloyd Thanks! One more question. (Sorry, I’m a total noob!) When installing where on the tv is the best place to start the strip? I can guess halving the strip and working too center and around.
@@ShawnRoberts1 It doesn’t really matter. I try to position the start of the strip in a convenient location to the power outlet, so it may just depend on your setup.
Can the light strips go outside? to be used as Christmas lights.
Sadly no - these are only rated for indoor.
The Nanoleaf A19 bulbs are also only rated for indoor. However, I’ve been using them in my inclosed outdoor light fixtures for months without issue. I also have Nanoleaf Scenes assigned to them. For example, they phase through Red and Green for Christmas - Red and White for Canada Day.
Great video with useful info. A question… I use HomePod minis… I want to put a Nanoleaf bulb on either side of our bed for a separate him and her setup…. Can this be done. So if I tell Siri to turn off my side light will this also turn her light off as well? Thanks in advance.
You can totally do this in the Home App! Just make sure you name/label each bulb and then you can use Siri to control using that label or even integrate certain individual bulbs into a scene or automation. Hope this helps!
@@TheBradLloyd thanks for this. This is the small questions that will make or break my wife’s acceptance of this newer technology. Thanks… Alan
Its so hard to delete scenes if you just have the bulbs. I have like 9 of the bulbs, im not going into each bulb to delete the 15 scenes i haphazardly tried.
Right? Kind of a pain. Plus I can’t figure out why some scenes just keep coming back despite me deleting it. Seems like once you download a scene to a bulb it becomes a HomeKit scene, even if you don’t make it a “group scene” in nanoleaf app. It’s a hassle.
i have a question brad, does the scene making only work with nanoleaf accessories?
You can create lots of scenes in HomeKit, but this video is specifically about brining in Nanoleaf scenes (which are more like effects) into HomeKit. You can then add non-nanoleaf accessories into those scenes. Hope that helps!
After 9 months, can you still advise nanoleaf lamps in relation to philips hue? even with philips hue having hue essentials app? Do you know this app??
I have not used that app, but I will check it out - thanks for the recommendation. Hue and Nanoleaf both have room in my smart home. The "bang for your buck" is excellent with Nanoleaf. I just ordered more Nanoleaf bulbs this week.
@@TheBradLloyd thanks for taking a look at the comment. you can be surprised by philips hue essential, you can create various automations and scenes through multiple taps of the same button. in my opinion philips goes ahead due to the variety of types of lamps... and unfortunately for those who want to invest in an immersion with philips hue sync... unfortunately I don't know many effective alternatives... but I'm watching Nanoleaf!!
Your last chapter did have a typo in the title in the video. It says "Flash ack to Feb" and should be "Flash back to Feb". Other than that, looks great.
Thanks Frederick, Great catch! Removed that now. 🤦🏻♂️
Hello The Brad Lloyd
Nanoleaf Essentials | Bulb, Where is the product manufactured?
Thanks
The box says "made in China". Hope that helps.
Can’t get it to connect to my iPhone
Please help. This does not work. Nanoleaf essentials “Matter smart bulbs” will not add to a scene and I cannot add them to Apple Home. The box says “works with Apple Home”. False advertising.
You can add the scenes by enabling sync in the nanoleaf settings but they don’t work and not a single one of these UA-cam tech reviews addresses it, while it’s all over Reddit.
That’s clearly mentioned as a limitation of Matter in the Nanoleaf app (I haven’t understood if it’s a protocol limitation or a Nanoleaf implementation limitation). Dunno whether or not there are plans to evolve this
@@jjadragna there’s not a single clear thing in that pos app. Jumped ship to a better brand.
Unfortunately, I have the Nanloleaf Essentials MATTER bulbs and they dont support group scenes at this time. Oh well….
Same here. Did you find any alternative way to make scenes accessible in home app? They sync but does not work as intended, it converts to basic scenes.
Hey Brad. Need your help!
I’m facing issues in setting up schedule for my lightstrips. Nanoleaf suggested me to watch a video which said that I need either an AppleTV or HomePod or IPad. (I didn’t know all of that before purchasing).
Fortunately I have an iPad but I’m still unable to simply setup schedules.
HELP!
Nope. Scenes are not visible in Home app.
Had to choose “scene sync” in nano app
Not available for matter devices, thanks for wasting our time.