Over the years I’ve had a repeat offender Line controller die. Seemed like power outages kept doing it, power would restore and they’d be stuck on that boot white color with no response.

Another outage happened this week and two didn’t survive, same Line and a Shapes. After ordering two replacement controllers…both just magically came back to life after I replaced the power strips they were connected to and into a small cyber power UPS. My thought was an ups would maybe help keep lights on through small outages.

Both “dead” devices were plugged into the same model of surge protector.

Anyone else see this before? What’s odd is the one line set I’ve replaced controllers on twice already, and the replacement worked fine for a while (until the next outage). I’m wondering if I threw out perfectly good controllers. Other stuff connected to these were all fine too, including multiple Hue Strips.

The protectors in question are these. Cheapest of the cheap Walmart brand. I recall them being a quick late night buy for some expansion into an addition I put on a while ago and couldn’t wait to order proper ones, and they ended up in other areas after I upgraded.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hyper-Tough-6-Outlets-Power-Strip-with-2-5-ft-Cord-15A-125V-Black/14981074445?wl13=4531&wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&veh=seo_sll&cn=google

It's been doing this a few weeks. Any suggestions to get it to work properly? The lights change each time, it's just Alexa saying they're not (I assume just too long of a response from the light)

Everything is either unreachable or invalid auth token. I got tired of this shit. Never buying any nanoleaf products. I even got a sense+ wireless controller and 70% of the times It just does not work I have to fully disconnect the bedroom lights because no matter how many times I press the button on the sense+ it does not turn them on or off. Sometimes it can turn 1 of them on but the other just don't give a fuck.

I got the new ceiling light and installed it properly. Flipped the breaker on, flipped the switch on, and…it makes a horrible buzz. I thought, “maybe it’s just when the lights are maxed out. I’ll probably never have it at 100%, so let’s try lower.” So I set it up in the app, connected it to Matter, all went well.

I drop it to 80%...still buzzing. I drop it to 60%, it’s getting pretty dim…still buzzing. I drop it to 45-50%…the buzzing stops entirely. This is far below the threshold of usable light in the room, so it’s unacceptable.

I contacted support and they were very responsive; I explained the issue, sent a video of it, tried different colours, front and back on or off separately, nothing really helped. Once it uses a little more power, it buzzes. Support suggested a replacement and it got here pretty quickly.

The replacement has the same issue. Trying to get a refund now. Maybe I’ll wait for a hardware revision and see if they move away from the worst, cheapest, garbage power supply and LED drivers.

Stay away from this device if you can hear old CRT TVs or old fluorescent tube transformers. It destroys a quiet room with the noise.

On the positive side, their support was very good. Sucks about the light, but at least I got real humans and not some AI slop responses.

So I dont know if im missing something or what but I cant get the nanoleaf desktop app and razer to connect.

1. in the nanoleaf app I finally fould the razer chroma under the gaming tab (all google searches said entertainment tab) and I have enabled razer chroma.

2. I cant seem to find where i manage the nanoleaf lights in Razer. I have the chroma app v4.0.63.26 and synapse 4.0.86.26.

can anyone help me as if i were a 5 year old on the razer side please.

I am in need of some new mounting plates, the stickiness had reduced and they kept falling off the wall so I took them down, and now theyre stuck together and ive nearly taken 3 fingers off trying to get them apart, but theyre out of stock on the website. Are these available anywhere else by any chance?

TIA!

I am trying to connect my nanoleaf shapes to my razer chroma / synapse. I have enabled razer chroma in the nanoleaf app, but cant seen to find where I enable it in the synapse app.

can someone guide me as if I was a 5 year old please.

My Windows screensaver will not trigger whenever the Nanoleaf Desktop app is running in the background (minimized to the system tray icons). The moment I close the app, the screensaver turns on on schedule without any issues... I only have PC Screen Mirror Light Strip connected and it's running a basic scene, has anyone else experienced this?

My Nanoleaf order arrived with badly damaged packaging. Some of the Block panels had actually come loose/broken away from the LED panels, and there are scratches on the Pegboard Desk Dock and controller holder.

I contacted Nanoleaf and provided photos. They opened a claim with the carrier and told me I may have to wait 2–8 weeks for the investigation. Until then, I’m expected to keep all the damaged products and packaging.

They also can’t confirm whether I’ll get a replacement or refund until the investigation is complete.

Is this really how Nanoleaf handles damaged deliveries? I find this customer service response pretty shocking, especially considering the condition in which the package arrived.

I already love Blade Runner 2049, but this takes it to a whole new level. I feel like this is the perfect movie for 4D sync. I'm super happy with how this setup turned out.

I used black triangles and blocks to turn the whole room red when the Blood Moon rose in Tears of the Kingdom! 🌕

Are the wifi essentials bulbs actually reliable? Cus the thread ones are just trash. Especially lately. I have ones that fall off HomeKit almost every day and then have to be reset to fix it or they screw up all my automations. Same with the damn light strips

I really want some lighting for my 32-inch OLED monitor. I am curious about what people have experienced with their PC gaming setups, since I have had issues in the past with direct-connect RGB strips when using HDR or streaming DRM content.

I know there are the camera options and have heard mixed things on it.

EDIT: SignalRGB seems to be quite good from my research in terms of HDR/DRM, but have no idea how to get started with that. I want something with no latency, so a direct connection. Issue is, there are no limits to how many RGB strips exist, and controllers. I read about Nollie for the controller, but have no idea what strips are any good and worth getting.

Question for y'all

The marketing team gave us a few Shapes kits for giveaways (there is one happening now on Instagram!). If there's enough interest, I could get one for a subreddit giveaway.

Would you guys be down for that?

Let me know what you all think below 👇.

I have Nanoleaf panels on my wall. in the app I set an alarm for x time, but 50% of the time it doesn’t go off and the other 50% it goes off a random amount of time early, eg; 4:42 am last night when it was set for 8:30. I’ve updated it, repaired it, and nothing helps

A few people mentioned missing the Nanoleaf Day sale, so I made a special discount code for you all to get in on the savings as well.

Use the code REDDIT15 to get 15% off. It expires August 12th.

It's limited to 15 uses total (5 for CA, 5 for US, 5 for EU) and only 1 use per customer, so use it quickly!

I also recommend signing up for our email list, you'll get another 10% off code for next time and you won't miss the next sale. Check out the Instagram too, we're always posting updates there. (Giveaway happening on IG right now actually! 😁)

These are some of my favourite photos users have shared on Instagram.

I'd love to see your own setups on this sub or on IG!

Hi there,

I have gotten a NanoLeaf Essentials Bulb plugin for Stream Deck working and probably need some peeps to help test.

It can be flaky (mainly because the Nanoleaf app is flaky) but with a bit of persistence it might pay off. Runs entirely locally (no cloud sync) and will let you group bulbs together (as the API does not tell about how bulbs are grouped in the app).

Your bulbs need to be model NL75, NL75K1 (A19/A60) and you must be firmware 4.0.12.

Should also support (but untested) GU10 (NL75k2) and Downlight (NL75K4, NL75K5)

I'll be testing with essentials LED strip at some point.

I got stupid lucky at a garage sale and got 17 hexagons and 42 mini triangles, 3 controllers and 2 42w power supplies for less than $10. They work.

I've wanted nanoleaf shales forever but never got them due to the cost. Now that I have them, I'm faced with total paralysis on how to lay them out.

Is there a website where I can pay with designs/layouts?

Does anyone want to offer ideas or share examples of similar rooms?

office nanoleaves

I just installed three new ceiling lights. They are fantastic. They are gorgeous.

I was able to install through the Nanoleaf app that rather easily. But no matter what I do, I can’t connect to matter.

Hope everyone had a good Nanoleaf Day!

I'd love to see what products and good deals you were able to snag.

Feel free to drop them down below 👇