nanoleaf Skylight Expansion Pack, 1 Smart LED RGBCW Ceiling Light [Requires Starter Kit to Function], Modular Wi-Fi Colour Changing and Dimmable Square, Works with Apple Home Amazon Alexa Google Home

The Nanoleaf Skylight Starter Kit brings a futuristic twist to home lighting with its smart LED RGBCW ceiling lights. These modular, Wi-Fi-enabled squares offer an impressive array of features, including color-changing capabilities, dimming options, and synchronization with music and screens. The compatibility with major smart home systems like Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home adds to its appeal, making it a versatile addition to any tech-savvy household. The Nanoleaf Skylight Starter Kit brings a futuristic twist to home lighting with its smart LED RGBCW ceiling lights. These modular, Wi-Fi-enabled squares offer an impressive array of features, including color-changing capabilities, dimming options, and synchronization with music and screens. Compatibility with major smart home systems like Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home adds to its appeal, making it a versatile addition to any tech-savvy household. The innovative design of these lights is truly eye-catching, transforming ordinary ceilings into dynamic, customizable light displays. While some basic DIY skills are required for installation, I found the process straightforward and the end result well worth the effort. The creativity and ambiance these lights bring to a space are remarkable. I absolutely love how they blend functional lighting with artistic expression, dramatically enhancing the mood and aesthetics of any room.

Positioning: Not so easy. Required careful measurement to make sure it does not look weird on the ceiling. A laser level helped immensely. Make sure you have the central one in the position you want. I managed by myself, but would be a lot easier with 2 people, one hold the light in place and another marking the holes. Install: Easy enough. Has live and neutral connections, completely standard unlike other reviews. Follow the pictures in the manual and you will see at one end on the fixture board in BIG letters where to connect. The others are for connecting other lights the central one. What may not be standard is your own home wiring, as mine were. Made things complicated but worked it out. The hole at the top for the mains to go through was a bit small. My mains wiring had 6 wires. Extra lights: Making them tight against the main light was ok. Used a straight edge and matched edges, making sure there was a tight fit, before marking the holes. Be very careful, as even a small deviation will show an ugly gap when the lights are off. Connecting them to the main central light its easy. Use any of the remaining connections on the board. With the smaller and thinner wires, its pretty obvious where they go so just link one light to other through the rubber gasket in the side of the fixture. it is a bit finnicky though. NOTE: Tightening the cover too tight caused one of the lights to not work. Loosening it and making sure the wires are seated correctly remedied. Aesthetics: Good quality plastic, but still looks plasticky. I am ok with that. You can see the gaps in the sides, which may detract visually. That aside, my room could have done with only one, but I put it up in the extension, to give the impression of a skylight. If they were thinner and could recessed, I would somewhat agree. I am thinking of making a wood surround for the sides to make it look prettier to hide the gaps and something nanoleaf should consider selling. Maybe a clear plastic panel inserted within to make it look more homogenous and more skylight looking. But I like the lights. I have quite a few LIFX lights for a long time and some other generic smart colour lights. The only thing I am not so keen on in the app. It is good enough and responsive. But you cannot save individual colours. I have tried to save it as a scene but it keeps failing, maybe it is me. Alexa integration is good. Ask alexa to turn skylight on and off, it will, BUT if you want scenes, you have to say "Alexa....Turn Northern lights on"......simple right???!!! Not when other apps require you to state the name of the device 1st. This will take a while to get used to. I have yet to integrate into home assistant, so cannot comment on this as I am still learning this.

Item was faulty on arrival. Kept randomly disconnecting from the Matter network, going non-responsive and then after a few hours totally died. Unfortunately I’d waited for Nanoleaf support (who are so slow it’s basically useless - 2+ weeks for each step in the to and from while they ask all the o cups I questions about “does it have power” 🙄- but the time I’ve given up I’ve now missed the returns window with Amazon. So they’re basically useless. Support is non existent and I can’t return them 😤 Avoid - or make sure you can install them as soon as they arrive and any sign of an issue, don’t bother with nano leaf support- return them straight away

From the outset i would recommend getting a qualified electrician to fit these. You get three light panels and all fixings inc instruction booklet. The first thing i have to say is the instruction booklet is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, not very clear, you have to take the top panel off the lights to get to the wiring connections underneath and this can be a bit fiddly. Two of the units come with twin mains cable ( live and neutral ) and these have to be connected to the middle unit ( this unit is the one that is connected to your house mains ). I personally have these on the wall connected with a three pin plug. To use these you have to download the nanoleaf app, simple enough but the app isn't that good in my opinion, firstly the app didn't want to connect to the lights, it took a few times to eventually get it to work and then i found the app to be pretty basic. For what they are i found it to be too much of a mess on, connecting them, installing them and getting them to work, in my opinion not worth it.

The lights look really nice. I spent hours wiring the lights up and trying to get them to pair with the App, but in the end I gave up with it. First of all I could not install the App on my phone because it needs a very recent version of Android. I've never had an app that required this before. I ended up installing the App on my tablet instead, but then I had issue trying to get it to pair, and in the end I could not get it to pair. I tried using the QR code in the manual and on the light fitting (very hard to scan with the light turned on), and I tired the manual pair button on the app, to no avail. For the electrical installation, the instructions were extremely confusing, and the connections inside are non-standard, so it took me ages to figure it all out. The lights look like they might have been nice if they had worked, but due to the poor instructions, fiddly installation and inability to pair with the App, I can't recommend this.

I purchased this product and have faced constant issues—one malfunction after another. Despite multiple attempts to contact technical support, I have received no response whatsoever. I have reached out through every available channel—official support, help desk, even social media—and after three weeks, I am still being completely ignored. This level of customer service is unacceptable. If something goes wrong with your purchase, you will be left without any support or resolution. I strongly advise against buying anything from this company. It’s a complete waste of money.

I was very keen to try these Skylights as nanoleaf is a well know name in the world of LED lighting, being the brand that all the big vloggers seemed to use. When I saw the RRP of these lights I was quite surprised and assumed they must be a premium product. In the starter kit you get the three panels, some fixing hardware and instructions, it didn't seem like much at all, especially for the price. The instructions are quite basic consisting mostly of diagrams that you need to decipher as to what they are implying. The fixing hardware, however, is good with two different types of plugs for different materials. I found that having a perfectly flat surface was critical for installation otherwise you cannot clip the covers back on if the lights are twisted in any way. After installing and powering on the Skylights I followed the instruction in the Nanoleaf App and was able to configure the light and was able to control it, it was even detected and added to my Apple Homekit environment. All seemed ok until I tried to add a schedule to the light using the App, I could configure a schedule and then when I tried to save it, it just disappeared after a couple of seconds, I tried several times with the same result. I decided to try removing the light from the App, and re-adding it, to see if that fixed the scheduling problem, boy was that a mistake. I now cannot control the light at all, I can add the light back into the app but every time I try and control the skylight in the app, the app states the skylight is offline, I know this isn't the case because I can see it connected to my home network, the only thing the light will do is flash when I use the App to identify the light. So, I know have a light I cannot use on my ceiling and removing it will leave 12 holes in the ceiling that will need to be repaired. Overall, a terrible mistake installing these lights which will cost me dearly to remove and put the ceiling right again.