I have 12 nanoleaf essential matter over thread bulbs and an m100 hub and I want to have them be controlled via voice commands to Google assistant/Google home so that the commands communicate via the aqara hub to the bulbs only over matter, and not requiring Bluetooth. I want to have scenes set up in the nanoleaf app that the voice commands can turn on, as well as automations set up via Google home or aqara that turn on different scenes based on time of day, geo fencing, and voice commands. I imagine it would be faster if the automations were set up all in aqara with voice commands to Google home routing to aqara to run the automation, rather than setting up the automations Iâm Google home to then give commands to the aqara m100 hub to relay to the bulbs. This is all based on assumptions, Iâm very open to being wrong; I often am and itâs why I came here for advice/assistance.
I started out by connecting all of the bulbs to the aqara app. I tried to add all of them as child devices not really understanding what that is and even though I use the button none of them show up as child devices. But at least I did get them all set up in the aqara app. Setting up automations for them is challenging because they are not aqara products so they canât be automated as a group, so I had to set up individual automations for each light for each scene and of course Iâm not able to set their scenes to be nanoleaf scenes - I tried having the aqara app create matter codes for each bulb and then adding them that way to nanorleaf, but nanorleaf didnât take any of them - it seemed to only want the original matter code.
To complicate it (I guess) Iâm in Italy and to add them to Google home has proved challenging. When I do so, only the hub adds, and it showed up as a âsimple security deviceâ, with none of the bulbs.
Even if I find a solution to that, it still doesnât solve the problem that I want to automate nanoleaf scenes on command from Google home to be controlled via matter through the aqara hub.
I feel like Iâm doing a lot wrong, I feel like I probably havenât read/found a post in the forum that could solve most if not all my problems, but I do want to tell you guys that I did look and didnât quite find a solution. I hope this doesnât waste any of your time, but if any of you could redirect me to a post that gives some solution that will solve some of these issues I would be most grateful.
Did you mean Google Home? Your Matter lights added to Aqara hub have to be shared one by one to Google Home using Matter. The original Matter code is only valid for the first platform you add the lights to.
And to add a Matter device to a platform like Google Home you need a Matter controller for said platform, like a Nest smart speaker.
You wonât be able to do that with any platform. Support for vendor scenes in Matter is almost non-existent at the moment, the protocol supports it but vendors do not implement it and neither do smart home platforms.
If you want to trigger Nanoleaf scenes by something that is not the Nanoleaf app, get a Nanoleaf Sense+ wireless remote.
According to the German manufacturerâs website, Nanoleaf 4D and Nanoleaf Essentials Thread HomeKit light bulbs and light strips are not currently supported. The American website only states that Nanoleaf 4D is not supported at present.
@Spence Therefore, please check in advance whether all functions are available in your country.
OP only mentions the Nanoleaf Essential Matter over Thread bulbs and those are compatible with the remote (they are not the HomeKit ones). Double checking is always recommended of course.
On the website, you can choose between Matter over Wi-Fi and Matter over Thread. Matter over Thread is compatible with Apple Home, but the Matter over Wi-Fi page is currently unavailable. How can I tell the difference between âNanoleaf Essentials Thread with HomeKitâ and âNanoleaf Essentials Thread without HomeKitâ? Very confusing.
I meant the nanorleaf app. I tried having the aqara app create matter codes for each bulb and then adding them to the nanorleaf app, but nanorleaf app wouldnât accept those codes
I did however manager to add them all to Google home from the aqara app.
Thank goodness I had an old Google home mini 2nd gen laying around.
Via the nanorleaf app, I can download scenes to each bulb, and then I believe I can create routines in Google home that can trigger nanorleaf scenes upon voice commands that trigger the routine
Create a scene in Aqara Home and export the scene through matter, this will then allow you to call the scene, the beauty of scenes are that you can indeed add multiple bulbs to the scene.
My brother has 25 Nanoleaf bulbs ( thread versions ) and this is how he uses them, he also never gets issues like some people complain about
OP wants to use Nanoleaf scenes created in Nanoleaf app, they have nice dynamic modes and user created colour animations. Those scenes are impossible to trigger from any platform when using Matter since theyâre not exposed.
So I grouped all of the lights together in aqara, and boom, I lose the ability to control colorâŚ
So I create an automatic one bulb by bulb⌠And aqara canât automate fading from one color to another. So I build an automatic increasing brightness 5 percent, wait one second, increase, wait, increase, wait, up to full brightness, then back down again, then up again another color, and back down again.
Then I want to loop it, however aqara automations canât trigger or be triggered by another automation, or be triggered by a scene, so thereâs no way to automate a fade, thereâs no way to automate a transition, or a âslow onâ, and thereâs no way to smoothly change from one color to another, or fade from one color to a another.
Also, setting the color wonât let you set the color you want; you have to use a slider that is inexact. It displays the FF color code, but wonât let you type one in, and after being the automation, I canât manually set the hue even though it looks like it I click it in the automation sentence, that I can manually set it, but no, itâs just there to tease.
One automation as a âvirtual switchâ that is never triggered. In my case, a camera in the interior that will never see a car and the previously created scene:
I mean if you were buying today, Iâd say skip nanoleaf altogether. I have a handful of the thread bulbs and donât have many issues, but based on features and performance they wouldnât be my first choice.
