Intuitive remote controls smart home accessories
Looking for a functional, intuitive and all-around neat remote for smart home accessories? Looking for one that adds vibrant color and style?
The Nanoleaf remote is a dodecahedron-shaped remote to control HomeKit smart home accessories and Nanoleaf Light Panels in colorful style.
The 12-sided, light-up, Bluetooth-enabled device looks like a speaker, but it’s not.
Instead, each face of the remote can be programmed for a different smart home scene or command, which is controlled by sensors inside the Nanoleaf.
You can easily create a common scene with specific lights, temperature and entertainment devices turned on.
Your devices are connected to your HomeKit’s hub, which then connects to the Nanoleaf for controlling.
After you plug in two AA batteries for power and snap the remote together, you can start programming it with the HomeKit or Nanoleaf app. Or you can use the preprogrammed scenes.
I personally find smart home devices entertaining and useful. The Nanoleaf 12 Sides of Paradise just adds another feature to all of them.
According to the Nanoleaf site, with iOS, the Nanoleaf remote is a HomeKit experience. Because of that, it requires iOS8 and above.
In addition, it requires a Home Hub (Apple TV, iPad or HomePod).
On Android, the Nanoleaf remote requires Android 5.