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Matter Smart Holiday String Lights (2024 Version)

How to install your Holiday String Lights for the best light effect?

Nanoleaf Holiday String Lights can be used indoors and outdoors. They are made up of two connected string segments with color animations flowing along the extended length (from one string light segment to the next) in one continuous direction. To get

Button Controls for Holiday String Lights

While you can control your Holiday String Lights (2024 Version) through the Nanoleaf app, it also has 4 buttons on the controller that allow you to perform various actions by just pressing or holding it. See below the instructions on how to use those

Pairing your Holiday String Lights

We strongly recommend pairing your lights in the Nanoleaf app first as we are able to ensure that this is the smoothest experience possible for getting access to Nanoleaf-exclusive features and firmware updates. We also provide a slick handoff to sup

Sharing your Holiday String Lights between ecosystems

One of the features of Matter is Multi-Admin which lets you share your Matter-compatible smart home device between ecosystems. Using this feature, it can be controlled by any or all of Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings si

How do the Nanoleaf app and Smart Home Ecosystems connect with your Holiday String Lights?

TL;DR: Nanoleaf app: Bluetooth and Wifi. Smart Home Ecosystems: Wifi only. The Nanoleaf app uses a proprietary protocol separate from Matter to communicate with Essentials devices. Using this protocol, we are able to support pairing and control via b