Comments on: Nanoleaf Elements Wood Look Hexagons (Smarter Kit (7 Panel))

By: Steve H-T

Steve H-T — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:41:22 +0000

Super easy to install! The app is confusing at first but play around with it and youâll be fine. These lights are the perfect ambience for anything really. The different settings and moods are great. Theyâre mesmerizing and beautiful.

By: Julie Michaud

Julie Michaud — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:41:22 +0000

The colour is slightly different than my initial set to which it attached too. It looks kinda weird.

By: Amazon Customer

Amazon Customer — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:41:22 +0000

We tried everything it just would not connect to Apple HomeKit or Nanoleaf app. We have watched all the videos online and even reset but it did not work. We are experience with smart products and use them all over the house so itâs not like we are new.

By: Kamil Jakobczyk

Kamil Jakobczyk — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:41:22 +0000

Looks fantastic at night and really sets a warm mood. But it keeps dropping Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity every few days and the Nanoleaf company support is via email only and they canât figure out how to fix it

By: Clive Kriekenbeek

Clive Kriekenbeek — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:41:22 +0000

Love these for the warm orange glow. Nice for apple home eco-system

By: Lumbre

Lumbre — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:41:21 +0000

Beautiful, simple, and unique
Yes it has a large price tag but it’s more of an art piece and smart product produced at low volumes.Pros:Nice design with interlocking hexagons. I’d suggest to measure and lay out your design on the floor. Take a picture and hold up to the wall. Level your first hexagon perfectly then you don’t need to worry about the rest.Simple install. Once you get past your design anxiety and making sure your first hexagon is measured and near perfect, the rest just comes into place. They stay on the wall great.Smart home options. You can use their app and manage your lights there. It also comes with a “remote” that links to any of the hexagons you want. But you can also integrate with your favorite smart home solution. I personally use Home Assistant via HomeKit integration. You can also trigger different actions when you touch different hexagons, though this is more if you’re comfortable with smart home customization.Expandable. If I decided to add more hexagons or decorate the edges with colored triangles or lines, I could.Bright and variety of whites. You can use auto brightness adjust manually. Also set various whites from cool to warm to sunrise/sunset oranges. It comes with a large library of presets that you can save to your favorites for it to cycle upon shuffle, from cloud motion to star twinkle to starbursts to neon. Plus of course the music mode (if the music is in the same room, it doesn’t line up as much further away).Cons:Their app looks great but isn’t always reliable and firmware updates aren’t confidence-inspiring, though optional. Although compatible with Elements shapes, it’s more of an afterthought as it uses the same screens and sometimes gives you suggestions for RGB colors rather than just shades of white.For the price I wish you got an extra 2 or 3 hexagons. Or a more lightweight app. When I open it it seems like they want to upsell me.The “wood” itself is a bit too consistent and manufactured. Although this makes it easy to make sure the “grain” lines up to each other, it doesn’t feel as natural.Mixed feedback on removal. I tried to uninstall one and although I could see it be a bit awkward in a few years when I forget what the back looks like, it’s fine and replaceable with a spare 3m Command wall strip. I get the feeling that people who complain about removal don’t realize there’s a set way of removing the glue and instead accidentally rip them off. They’re like command strips and need to be stretched parallel to the wall and NOT pulled towards you away from the wall.If you have the time, knowledge, and tools, you could build this yourself at a third of the price. But that’s true with most anything: meals, computers, furniture, etc.

By: Graham Custard

Graham Custard — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:41:21 +0000

Best piece of ‘art work’ I’ve ever put on a wall
These are a brilliant invention (forgive the pun). They look good on a wall with or without the lights switched on. You don’t get colors with these hexagons, rather shades of white, from golden ember glows to bright whites. You can set them up from your iPhone with steady light, or waves of flickering whites, changing shades or intensity that wash gently across your pattern.They take a bit of setting up. Nanoleaf recommends setting them up temporarily first, such as on a table. It’s tricky to measure the dimensions to fit the wall where you want them: hexagons have their own dimensions, rather than squares which easily conform to width and height, so check and double check! But once you take the trouble to get it right, and set them up correctly with the connectors provided, it goes well when you apply them to your wall with the self-stickies on the back.I particularly like that I can abandon the iPhone and use a touch controller which they provide for you to place where you wish. You can select different lighting patterns and brightness from this control.I think the basic set doesn’t quite offer enough hexagons to make a satisfying pattern; they provide extender sets of three hexagons, and I bought two extensions to go with mine, giving me six extra to achieve the ‘look’ I wanted. Glad I did, but I wish they weren’t so expensive.The cost can seem prohibitive, but remember this is art work that can stay with you for the rest of your life and, in theory, you can even change the pattern after a few years, or when you move home. (They adhere firmly, so you may have to patch up the surface beneath them if you move them.)To sum up, these are not for flashy ‘disco-like’ color changers, more for those who like subtle changes in whites that wash across your pattern. Or let them hold steady with a warm glow. They’ll certainly be a focus of conversation and a comfort on dark winter nights.