**Using Nano Leaf Lighting with HomeKit**

One of the most exciting features of HomeKit is its ability to work seamlessly with various smart home devices, including lighting panels from Nano Leaf. In this article, we'll explore how to use Nano Leaf lighting with HomeKit and showcase some of the amazing scenes that can be created.

**Creating Custom Scenes**

With Nano Leaf's innovative app, you can create any scene you want and save it as a HomeKit scene. The app is incredibly user-friendly, allowing you to easily configure your lights, adjust brightness, and even change colors with just a few taps on your screen. This feature makes it easy to customize your lighting scheme to suit your mood, the time of day, or any other desired effect.

**Controlling Nano Leaf Lighting with Siri**

But that's not all - you can also control your Nano Leaf lighting using Siri, Apple's virtual assistant. With the Home app, you can enable Siri to take control of your lights, allowing you to change scenes or adjust brightness with just your voice. This feature makes it easy to multitask while keeping an eye on your surroundings.

**Scene Options and Accessories**

One of the standout features of Nano Leaf lighting is its extensive range of scene options. From romantic ambiance to bright and bold color schemes, there's something for everyone. You can also control different accessories individually or use pre-created scenes to create a unique experience. And with 12 customizable buttons on your remote, you have plenty of options to choose from.

**Integration with Other HomeKit Devices**

But Nano Leaf lighting isn't just limited to its own devices - it can also be integrated with other HomeKit-enabled products in your home. This means that you can control multiple devices at once using a single remote or scene, creating a seamless and streamlined experience. Whether you have smart locks, shades, fans, or other devices, Nano Leaf's integration makes it easy to control them all from one place.

**The Home App**

While the Nano Leaf app is incredibly user-friendly, some users may find that it offers even more features in Apple's own Home app. In this case, the Home app provides a more streamlined experience, with an intuitive interface and quick access to your most frequently used scenes and settings. However, we found that the Nano Leaf remote offered more customization options, including conditionals and third-party integration.

**Remote vs. Other Options**

When it comes to smart remotes for HomeKit lighting control, there are several options available on the market. Some popular alternatives include buttons from El Gato, Logitech's Pop Switch, and Philips Hue's Dimmer Switch. While these options are all similarly priced, they lack some of the features that make Nano Leaf's remote stand out - including haptic feedback and customizable button options.

**The Verdict**

After putting several smart remotes through their paces, we're convinced that Nano Leaf's remote is one of the best on the market. While it may require a bit more memory to recall all 12 scenes, the reward is well worth it - a sleek, user-friendly design and advanced features like conditionals and third-party integration make it a standout choice for HomeKit lighting control.

**Tips and Tricks**

* Use the "Discover" tab in the Nano Leaf app to find new scene options and inspiration.

* Take advantage of HomeKit's conditional functionality to automate your scenes and create custom experiences.

* Experiment with different accessories and devices to find the perfect combination for your space.

* Don't be afraid to try out new things - after all, that's what smart home lighting is all about!

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, using Nano Leaf lighting with HomeKit is a breeze. With its extensive range of scene options, customizable buttons, and seamless integration with other devices, this lighting system is perfect for anyone looking to elevate their smart home experience. Whether you're a seasoned HomeKit user or just starting out, we encourage you to explore the world of Nano Leaf lighting and discover the amazing possibilities it has to offer.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe nano leaf remote is a really interesting way to control not just your lights but your entire smart home and on AppleInsider we're gonna put it to the test welcome everyone this is Andrew and we have the new nano leaf remote which is now available online as well as in Apple stores it is a dodecahedron which means it has 12 sides and it can light up as well as vibrate whenever you give it a command obviously it pairs well with Nano these other products notably their lighting solutions they're triangular shaped lighting panels that we're gonna look at again in this video are a great option to use this remote with but because it works with home kit it'll work with any home kit compatible product whether it's other lights your shades your fans your door locks anything they work with home kit can work with the Nano leaf remote inside the box you have everything that you need to get going including the two halves of the die of Harrah batteries and all-important nano li sticker as well as the getting started guide which has a backup of the home kit pairing code the remote is made up of two plastic halves one that actually has some of the components and the other one that is largely hollow it's kind of like a soft white color so soft rounded edges going around it with numbers printed on all the sides this corresponds to the scene that is currently active so whichever number is up that is the scene that'll currently be set inside the larger of the two halves you'll find the battery compartment as well as the actual home cake pairing code also in here is a tiny haptic motor that's able to provide actual vibration feedback whenever you rotate or change it to a different scene while putting the remote together works pretty easily when we did have to take it apart it was kind of a pain you need to use a screwdriver and almost like the screwdriver was able to slightly damage the actual exterior of the die when we tried to open it up so there's a little bit of a downside but luckily this battery should last you hopefully a little while depending on how much you play with this thing right when you first get it putting the batteries in works really easily and is incorrectly shown here in the video obviously they want on the left should be down and the one on the right should be face-up so put the batteries in correctly and it'll spring to life with a variety of different colors usually Green getting going line the two halves up and a quick little click will lock everything into place it locks in solidly removing the chance of those accidentally coming open when used to knock it around here you can see some of the colors as we rotate the dye a different side is up means a different color is shown on the remote it's another nice visual indicator to correspond with the seam that's actually being displayed here you can see we have our aurora going up the wall these triangle shaped light panels and we have a bit of a banding issue with our frame rate but as we change the remote you can see the actual tiles are changing they're seen that they're displaying so how does this all get set up luckily it's pretty easy and you can do either in the actual Nano leaf application or you can do it in the home kit application we kind of used a combination and both of them depending on what we were looking to do starting off in nano leaf you can see how it'll adjust to the scene that is currently running so we have one up now as we rotate it to two you'll see little the live reaction on the app showing now fireworks and firecrackers change it again now a vibrant sunrise is being displayed so it just changes the lighting pattern on our tiles as we change the top facing number setting up additional scenes is really simple to do we simply act go to our remote tab and we scroll down we choose a number in this case we're looking at number seven so on side number seven we want this particular scene to show up now we have to kind of give it a second for it to recognize but if I move it again in reassign scene number seven after it actually sinks over to homekit move it again and you'll see we'll go from vibrant sunrise to nighttime snowfall which includes not only the color of the panels but the brightness as well obviously you can get really granular in how you adjust these old lighting scenarios if you're adjusting with a home kit stuff from nano leaf like the or rora and their upcoming square shaped panels you can do all that here in the app you can actually paint on their choosing which colors you want each individual tile to be do you want them to rotate how do you want them to rotate there's a ton of different stuff that you can get in there and change so you can create any of these robust scenes here in the nano leaf app and save it as a home kit scene and Olivia be available not only through the remote but through Siri and other applications as well as a side note one of my favorite places to get scenes is from the discover tab there's a ton of really cool options here from nano leaf as well as other users so you can always find kind of something new and cool here that you want to try out on your own lighting product so anyone that you find you can you instantly on your nano leaf lighting panels save it to your device and use it in any scenes with the remote or any of your other home kit gear so that is in the Nano leave app primarily working with the aurora the other lighting of chronics from nano leaf but what if you want to do more with home kit that's totally doable here in the home app you can do this in the Nano leave app but we find a little bit easier in Apple's own first party solution but you can see we have the Nano leaf remote here in the dining room and we have 12 what show up as buttons even though with just the different sides of the die but there are 12 different buttons that you can configure for each of the signs you can control different accessories individually or you can use any pre created scenes of course you might also notice some of the scenes that we saw from over in the Nano leaf app such as the the red spectrum and romantic and other ones that we created specifically for the yard aura but you're not limited just to nano leaves lighting panels I can do things like my locks my shades my fans all that stuff can be controlled with the Nano leaf remote now while the home app says you have 12 options you actually have more than that you can actually use conditionals and a third-party application and whenever you put on that scene it can either do it or reverse it depending on whether or not it's set for instance if I want one to lock and unlock the door if I put on one it'll lock the door if I turn into one again it'll unlock the door and you can do that with other applications like the evap which is a really nice home key application when you actually set scenes with the remote it works pretty well it's actually pretty fast and works fairly fluently we did notice some hiccups with some bridge based accessories like my hue lights sometimes one or so wouldn't actually get the message but when I reset that same scene it would automatically go through when we compare this to a lot of the other buttons and remote out there in the home Cape market we have some pretty good results we've got a bunch of them here including to borrow the button the button from El Gato we've got the logitech pop switch down here at the bottom and we have the two options from philips hue the dimmer switch and the tap all work really well I'll do pretty much the same thing but then we have the room and it's honestly the most different out of all of them and it offers a lot more options all the others only can do three other than the tap and the dimmer both of those can do for but then you've got the remote from nano leaf which can do 12 and 24 or more if you're using conditionals that is really kind of where the problem lies the remote is really nice I really like using it it looks really nice I love the different colors and I loved a little bit of haptic feedback that you get whenever you rotate it and a scene is enabled but the problem is it's a lot of things to remember it's hard to remember those twelve different scenes that you have set for each of those but when we're compared to the other buttons I think it still comes out on top the other ones are still similarly priced but they don't light up they don't offer haptic feedback and they have much less configuration options compared to the remote so between them I think I'd rather use the remote I may not use all of the scenes even if I only use three four or five of them I still have options available and it definitely looks a lot cooler it also works really well for the Aurora simply put a whole bunch of different lighting scenes for your tiles and just rotate through you can sit there and choose your 12 favorite scenes and you still have a lot of options if you got a home kit home or you've got an Aurora or other tile solution definitely check this out you can find the link below in the description and let me know what you think down in the comments if you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next videothe nano leaf remote is a really interesting way to control not just your lights but your entire smart home and on AppleInsider we're gonna put it to the test welcome everyone this is Andrew and we have the new nano leaf remote which is now available online as well as in Apple stores it is a dodecahedron which means it has 12 sides and it can light up as well as vibrate whenever you give it a command obviously it pairs well with Nano these other products notably their lighting solutions they're triangular shaped lighting panels that we're gonna look at again in this video are a great option to use this remote with but because it works with home kit it'll work with any home kit compatible product whether it's other lights your shades your fans your door locks anything they work with home kit can work with the Nano leaf remote inside the box you have everything that you need to get going including the two halves of the die of Harrah batteries and all-important nano li sticker as well as the getting started guide which has a backup of the home kit pairing code the remote is made up of two plastic halves one that actually has some of the components and the other one that is largely hollow it's kind of like a soft white color so soft rounded edges going around it with numbers printed on all the sides this corresponds to the scene that is currently active so whichever number is up that is the scene that'll currently be set inside the larger of the two halves you'll find the battery compartment as well as the actual home cake pairing code also in here is a tiny haptic motor that's able to provide actual vibration feedback whenever you rotate or change it to a different scene while putting the remote together works pretty easily when we did have to take it apart it was kind of a pain you need to use a screwdriver and almost like the screwdriver was able to slightly damage the actual exterior of the die when we tried to open it up so there's a little bit of a downside but luckily this battery should last you hopefully a little while depending on how much you play with this thing right when you first get it putting the batteries in works really easily and is incorrectly shown here in the video obviously they want on the left should be down and the one on the right should be face-up so put the batteries in correctly and it'll spring to life with a variety of different colors usually Green getting going line the two halves up and a quick little click will lock everything into place it locks in solidly removing the chance of those accidentally coming open when used to knock it around here you can see some of the colors as we rotate the dye a different side is up means a different color is shown on the remote it's another nice visual indicator to correspond with the seam that's actually being displayed here you can see we have our aurora going up the wall these triangle shaped light panels and we have a bit of a banding issue with our frame rate but as we change the remote you can see the actual tiles are changing they're seen that they're displaying so how does this all get set up luckily it's pretty easy and you can do either in the actual Nano leaf application or you can do it in the home kit application we kind of used a combination and both of them depending on what we were looking to do starting off in nano leaf you can see how it'll adjust to the scene that is currently running so we have one up now as we rotate it to two you'll see little the live reaction on the app showing now fireworks and firecrackers change it again now a vibrant sunrise is being displayed so it just changes the lighting pattern on our tiles as we change the top facing number setting up additional scenes is really simple to do we simply act go to our remote tab and we scroll down we choose a number in this case we're looking at number seven so on side number seven we want this particular scene to show up now we have to kind of give it a second for it to recognize but if I move it again in reassign scene number seven after it actually sinks over to homekit move it again and you'll see we'll go from vibrant sunrise to nighttime snowfall which includes not only the color of the panels but the brightness as well obviously you can get really granular in how you adjust these old lighting scenarios if you're adjusting with a home kit stuff from nano leaf like the or rora and their upcoming square shaped panels you can do all that here in the app you can actually paint on their choosing which colors you want each individual tile to be do you want them to rotate how do you want them to rotate there's a ton of different stuff that you can get in there and change so you can create any of these robust scenes here in the nano leaf app and save it as a home kit scene and Olivia be available not only through the remote but through Siri and other applications as well as a side note one of my favorite places to get scenes is from the discover tab there's a ton of really cool options here from nano leaf as well as other users so you can always find kind of something new and cool here that you want to try out on your own lighting product so anyone that you find you can you instantly on your nano leaf lighting panels save it to your device and use it in any scenes with the remote or any of your other home kit gear so that is in the Nano leave app primarily working with the aurora the other lighting of chronics from nano leaf but what if you want to do more with home kit that's totally doable here in the home app you can do this in the Nano leave app but we find a little bit easier in Apple's own first party solution but you can see we have the Nano leaf remote here in the dining room and we have 12 what show up as buttons even though with just the different sides of the die but there are 12 different buttons that you can configure for each of the signs you can control different accessories individually or you can use any pre created scenes of course you might also notice some of the scenes that we saw from over in the Nano leaf app such as the the red spectrum and romantic and other ones that we created specifically for the yard aura but you're not limited just to nano leaves lighting panels I can do things like my locks my shades my fans all that stuff can be controlled with the Nano leaf remote now while the home app says you have 12 options you actually have more than that you can actually use conditionals and a third-party application and whenever you put on that scene it can either do it or reverse it depending on whether or not it's set for instance if I want one to lock and unlock the door if I put on one it'll lock the door if I turn into one again it'll unlock the door and you can do that with other applications like the evap which is a really nice home key application when you actually set scenes with the remote it works pretty well it's actually pretty fast and works fairly fluently we did notice some hiccups with some bridge based accessories like my hue lights sometimes one or so wouldn't actually get the message but when I reset that same scene it would automatically go through when we compare this to a lot of the other buttons and remote out there in the home Cape market we have some pretty good results we've got a bunch of them here including to borrow the button the button from El Gato we've got the logitech pop switch down here at the bottom and we have the two options from philips hue the dimmer switch and the tap all work really well I'll do pretty much the same thing but then we have the room and it's honestly the most different out of all of them and it offers a lot more options all the others only can do three other than the tap and the dimmer both of those can do for but then you've got the remote from nano leaf which can do 12 and 24 or more if you're using conditionals that is really kind of where the problem lies the remote is really nice I really like using it it looks really nice I love the different colors and I loved a little bit of haptic feedback that you get whenever you rotate it and a scene is enabled but the problem is it's a lot of things to remember it's hard to remember those twelve different scenes that you have set for each of those but when we're compared to the other buttons I think it still comes out on top the other ones are still similarly priced but they don't light up they don't offer haptic feedback and they have much less configuration options compared to the remote so between them I think I'd rather use the remote I may not use all of the scenes even if I only use three four or five of them I still have options available and it definitely looks a lot cooler it also works really well for the Aurora simply put a whole bunch of different lighting scenes for your tiles and just rotate through you can sit there and choose your 12 favorite scenes and you still have a lot of options if you got a home kit home or you've got an Aurora or other tile solution definitely check this out you can find the link below in the description and let me know what you think down in the comments if you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next video\n"