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

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.

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!

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. :)

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.

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.

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!