Nanoleaf Essentials Smart Light Bulbs, Matter LED Bulbs A19 E26 60W 2PK

Update: I upgraded my home WiFi and that seems to have solved the problem. Everything works great. Original review: I bought 9 bulbs and added each to HomeKit; however, as soon as I did all the bulbs were unreachable and could not be controlled with the app. The bulbs would only respond to turning the physical light switch on or off. I tried resetting several times and the lights remained unreachable each time. I paired the bulbs with an Android tablet and connected over Bluetooth and I was able to control the lights and update the firmware. Even with the latest firmware the bulbs will not connect to Apple devices or HomeKit. The only reason I bought these bulbs was to use them with HomeKit. So since that’s not working there’s no point to using these over regular cheap bulbs.

I love these! We are an apple House and these work with HomeKit very well. I have six or eight of them around the house and I love that. I can just tell Siri to turn them on off and of course we have many automations so it always looks like we're home even when we're on vacation. They're super convenient and you can adjust it to almost any color. You couldn't think of. I love these.

Edit: I did some research and, it should have been obvious since it’s in the title, but they require a 2.4Ghz Wifi Band. My wifi is an apartment amenity and doesn’t separate the bands in the access point, so to solve this, I got a Wifi Repeater which also separates the 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz bands out, and connected my smart accessories to it; this seemed to solve it so far! So for those with a similar situation, consider this. They’re cool and seem to work ok at times, but they’re constantly needing to be reset or have a significant amount of time where they lost connection, and are such a headache. The whole point of the smart bulbs was to have convenience, but to have to get up and spend more time toggling on & off is worse than just a regular damn bulb. I wish Apple hadn’t suggested these, I’m going to try Linkind bulbs instead which seem to be better.

Pros: - Rich color options with 16M+ RGBW colors - Simple HomeKit setup - More affordable compared to other smart bulbs on the market Cons: - Requires constant power to the lamp - Response time can be slow Insights: The Nanoleaf Smart LED A19 is a versatile smart bulb that shines with its vibrant colors and easy integration with Apple HomeKit. However, its design only draws power from the lamp it is installed in. So, like all electronics, continuous power is crucial for maintaining its connection to HomeKit. If the lamp's power is turned off, then you will lose connectivity and all home automation integration. You must use the Apple Home app, Siri, or another compatible home automation platform to control the on/off function of the bulb. It's also worth noting that you may experience slower than expected response times when using this bulb with Apple HomeKit. On the positive side, it is considerably less expensive than other smart bulbs on the market. Overall the Nanoleaf Smart LED A19 is a solid choice for enhancing your smart home lighting.

Nanoleaf Essentials Bulbs Review: Thread vs. WiFi Comparison ## Shared Strengths Both the Matter over Thread and Matter over WiFi versions of Nanoleaf Essentials bulbs offer: - Seamless pairing with Apple Home and Hubitat - Rich colors with granular control over color and temperature - Adequate brightness (though this is subjective—I personally prefer dimmer lighting) ## Matter over Thread Version: Recommended The Thread-based bulbs have been consistently reliable in my smart home setup, maintaining stable connections and responding promptly to commands. ## Matter over WiFi Version: Not Recommended After three months of troubleshooting with Nanoleaf support, I cannot recommend the WiFi versions due to persistent connectivity issues: ### Connectivity Problems - Bulbs disconnect regularly, typically staying connected for only 12-16 hours - Current workaround requires physically turning them off for 30 seconds to reconnect ### Excessive Requirements (According to Nanoleaf Support) Nanoleaf claims these bulbs require: - Placement more than 25 feet from routers and other WiFi devices - No Zigbee devices in the environment - All network devices on 2.4 GHz only (5 GHz network must be inactive) - No WiFi 6 or WiFi 7 in the environment - Manual IP assignment on your router -All devices in the network must use WPA2 security. WPA3 cannot be active. Despite meeting these requirements, the connectivity issues persist. My requests to have them replaced with the Thread version have been unsuccessful. ## Conclusion For those interested in Nanoleaf Essentials bulbs, I strongly recommend the Matter over Thread version. The Matter over WiFi version, despite sharing the same quality of light, has proven unreliable and difficult to maintain in a typical smart home environment.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Good product. Worked as described.

Excelente producto

I’ve used these bulbs for years. Still very happy with them! They are easy to use and connect to my Apple Home set up. My only complaint is that you use to be able to save color scenes to the bulbs and activate them via voice control, but you can’t do that anymore apparently because of matter integration. Still love the bulbs though!

Bought these to replace dying Philips Hue bulbs and they work great with Apple Home. Very happy with my purchase. Will probably buy more when I need more lightbulbs. It is a little unfortunate though that they don’t seem to be compatible with Apple’s auto light temperature in the Home app, but it’s not a big deal.

Ces lumières intelligentes sont pour moi les meilleures parmi celle qui fonctionnent avec Apple Home.

Fácil conexión y funciona perfectamente con HomeKit

Cumplen con lo prometido

I was skeptical after reading about these bulbs online, but have ultimately added six of these to my already large HomeKit home. They are probably the most reliable bulbs I have. The only gripes I have are the scene sync functionality in the Nanoleaf app behaving odd and filling my HomeKit home with default scenes with each bulb I add (that I need to manually remove with the Home app) and the colour brightness is a little weak compared to some of the Wi-Fi bulbs on the market like the VOCOlinc bulbs. Pros - Rock solid connectivity with Thread. Really one of the most solid bulbs I have for connectivity hands down. - White is incredibly bright. Great white colour spectrum - Awesome HomeKit integration - Colours are pretty deep and rich Cons - Colour brightness is pretty disappointing. Other bulbs easily outperform these Nanoleaf bulbs in colour brightness - The Nanoleaf app is.... finicky. Trying to get all the bulbs to share an animation scene is a messy procedure of editing and sharing the scenes in the Nanoleaf app to save them to a bulb, then closing the app and opening the Home app to see what the app ended up actually syncing to HomeKit. Repeating until the scenes are set properly. The bulbs seem to randomly rename shared animation/scenes as "Scene 1" creating multiple scenes in HomeKit. - The bulbs have multiple default scenes/animations that instantly sync when you add a new bulb. This is frustrating since I'm not a fan of having scenes I'll never use, so I have to delete the scenes from the bulb and then from HomeKit. Let us choose whether these default scenes get added. Don't just throw it into the HomeKit home. Ultimately, these are really reliable HomeKit bulbs that have AMAZING brightness for white colours and nice deep colours with lacklustre brightness. They have solid connectivity and perform extremely well. The app could be improved by making the scene copying function a little more reliable, and removing the default scenes from the bulbs when we set them up as new so we don't get cluttered with scenes in HomeKit.