How To Animate Hue Lights

whats up guys mike here the detroit borg with a really quick look at the nano leaf aurora modular smart lighting kit. so this retails for $199 but i picked this up on black friday for $149. i actually bought two kits now each kit has nine triangles these are led back light triangles that are designed to be used on the wall sorta as an accent lighting. and you can arrange them in a hole variety of different configurations. their actually attached to the wall using 3m command strips which means they can be easily pulled of and replaced, so if you need to re position them.

How To Animate Hue Lights, which means no tools and you wont damage your walls pulling these off. each starter kit includes this control module which connects to one of the triangles and then daisy changes to the rest of them. and this is what controls the lighting and connects it to wifi as a remote control we also get a power adapter and tones of wiring so you have lots of wire to work with

put of course this does mean you have a wire going up to the module no these are very similar to other smart lighting systems like hue light, in fact this also works with home kit which means you can use siri or the home kit app to control these lights. now the triangles together using these little tabs which are modular, which means you can repossession them to what ever side you want them to connect to. this actually allow you to chain up to 30 panels and you can buy expansion packs to add on to what ever configuration you have now they do include a whole bunch of 3m command strips but what you might want to do here is actually overlap the panels so they hide the tabs that stick out.

so you kind of have to plan ahead of time they also give you these paper templates which you can affix to a wall and experiment with the configureation you want but in my case i am just going to lay the configuration on my desk and then transfer that to the wall one piece at a time know the great thing about this setup is that you do not need to connect it to wifi in order to get a light show out of it so if you just want to throw it up on the wall and click a button to turn it on and cycle through the various programs you can do that you get several different light shows that you can cycle through which look very nice but of course the fun reely comes down to using this with an app which allows you to use voice to turn it on and of change the color change the brightness and much more now you can use the nano leaf app to customize the color for each panel you can also customize the brightness and the speed which those colors rotate

their is a lot of really interesting patterns you can select from and of course the more lights you have the better and the great thing about this system is that it knows the configuration automatically so you don't have to tell it what shape your nano leaf is setup in so if you ever change the arrangement the app will automatically update it you can also choose and customize a variety of lighting scenes so if you want to change up the colors you can go ahead and select the scenes and you can add your hue light bulbs under the settings now the great thing here is that i can control it in siri but you are limited here so you cant change the animation or the individual colors of the panels you can just basicly change the brightness or the color

so for example i can change it to purple, blue, red, pink or what ever color that siri recognizes and it will change the entire panel of course i can change the brightness by telling it to 'dim down to 50%' or what ever now these panels are very bright to look at and they may not light the room effectively but they are defiantly bright when they are staring you right in the face so most of the time you'll probably want to dim these lights to about 50% to get a nice ascent effect instead of lighting up the entire room now you can really dim these down so if you want a nice ambient night light you can enable that just by dimming it to about 10%

now i actually think this could be a really cool setup for a child's bedroom as it can act as a night light if you dim it all the way down the panels themselves are edge light so you will see the light sort off coming from the corners of the triangles i actually think it is a really neat effect especially when it dims in and out it also has a really cool on and of effect so each panel goes off at a random pace alright guys i hope you enjoyed this quick look at the aurora by nano leaf if you guys want to know more i will leave a link in the description below so you can pick them up for your self hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did give it a thumbs up to let me know and i will see you again in the next video