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Nanoleaf - Aurora Smarter Kit

Personalize your space with the Nanoleaf Aurora Smarter lighting kit. Customize the illuminating color patterns of the RGBW LED panels with the included controller, the Nanoleaf Smarter Series app or voice control. The Nanoleaf Aurora Smarter lighting kit is easy to install and comes with panel connectors and drill-free mounting accessories.

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Great wow-factor at a high price.

on December 10, 2016

Posted by: GallopingCow

The colors are super vivid and bright. Definitely enough to light up a whole room. I hope they follow through with their promise of more features including IFTTT and Amazon Echo integration. The app is pretty straight forward, but could use some work in usability. On my HTC 10, I find it difficult to tap in the correct place on certain screens, such as when I'm "painting" individual panels different colors. It could definitely be made to scale to different size screens a bit better.

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In many of the rendered photos of these lights, they have them climbing up the wall and then bending over onto the ceiling. I had planned to wrap from one wall to another, but this is simply not possible with the included setup. The connector that you put between tiles is a rigid circuit board material, and cannot be bent without breaking. I have not tried to create my own connector, but I would think this could be done without too much trouble. Really disappointing that I wasn't able to use the lights as I had intended and as they were advertised.

Apple Homekit works out of the box, but that doesn't do much for almost 90% of the world that carries Android. Sure in the US the market is closer to the halfway mark, but it's still frustrating that so many people choose to develop things for Apple first when clearly Android carries a global advantage.

I would also say these are overpriced by a margin of about 40%. It happened to be quite a bit cheaper for me to buy two "smarter kits" than one kit plus several expansion panels. At a retail cost of $200 for the Smarter Kit and $60 for three expansion panels, I would rather spend my money on Philips Hue bulbs. I ended up purchasing two starter kits for a total of 18 panels for $320 during Black Friday, and I still feel like I overpaid by quite a lot. I feel like a fair price would be around $12 per panel.

Overall, they have some really neat effects if you have the disposable income. They can really add a wow-factor to a room, but you're going to need more than the 9 panels you get out of one starter kit.

My Best Buy number: 3528213167

I would recommend this to a friend!

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Google - Nest Protect 2nd Generation Smart Smoke/Carbon Monoxide Wired Alarm - White

Nest Protect reliably detects and alerts you to the presence of smoke or carbon monoxide in your home. The alarm speaks to you in a calm, clear, human voice, telling you the location of the danger. It also provides smartphone alerts and battery status updates to help protect your home. This hardwired version is suitable for homes with existing hardwired smoke or CO detectors.

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the wired one if you loose power does it have battery backup

yes

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