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What do the Canvas buttons do?Updated 3 years ago

The Control Square for your Nanoleaf Canvas features 6 LED backlit buttons that perform a variety of functions. These are as follows:

Simple Button Actions

Button

User Input

Result

Power

Single press

Toggle panel power

Brightness Up (+)

Single Press

Increases brightness by 10% increments.

(NoteHolding the button for >1s will increase brightness in 30% increments.)

Brightness Down (-)

Single Press

Decreases brightness by 10% increments.

(NoteHolding the button for >1s will decrease brightness in 30% increments.)

Select Color (>) 

Single press

Triggers Color Scenes.

(Note: Pressing the button >1 will cycle through saved Rhythm Scenes.)

Select Random (Shuffle)

Single press

Randomly chooses a scene to play 

Select Rhythm

Single Press

Triggers Rhythm mode

(Note: Pressing the button >1 will cycle through saved Rhythm Scenes.)

 

For more advanced buttons, see the table below:

Advanced Button Actions

Button

Input

Result

Select Colour (>)

Hold for 3s

If the currently shown scene is not in the favourites list then add it. Flash panels white to indicate that the scene was saved. This is most useful when shuffling through Random Scenes

Select Colour (>)

and

Brightness Down

Hold for 3s

If the currently shown scene is in the saved list then remove it. Flash panels red to confirm.

Shuffle

Hold for 3s

Return to last randomly selected scene (history of 5 scenes). Flash LED once. If the user is at the end of their history, flash panels yellow for 0.5s once

Brightness Up

Brightness Down

Single press together

Cycle through white modes: 2700K, 4000K, 5000K. This should remember the last known state for “white” so you can switch back and forth between a Scene and White without having to toggle multiple times.

Brightness Up

Brightness Down

Hold together for 5s

Enables/disables heat map mode to help user place power supplies. Any scene, colour, or power change from any source will exit this mode.

 

Administrative Button Actions

Button

Input

Result

Power

Hold for 3s

Enable API pairing and Remote Pairing

Power

Brightness Down

Hold for 10s

Soft reset the control Square (deletes Wifi and Pairing information)

Power

Brightness Down

Hold buttons while plugging into power

Factory Reset of the Control Square (resets to factory settings)

Power

Rhythm Select

Single press together

Enables Hotspot mode
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