Make it festive in and around the house with the brand new Nanoleaf Smart Holiday fairy lights! The perfect decoration for the Christmas tree, or in your entire house to bring out the ultimate Christmas atmosphere. Thanks to the effects and easy controls, anyone can add any style they want to the tree.
Nanoleaf is known for a wide range of light animations and the most beautiful customizable color palettes. These create a festive atmosphere in no time. You can connect these from the app, with just one press of a button or a simple voice command.
Nanoleaf Holiday String Lights
For years, Twinkly dominated the smart Christmas lighting market, but this year a formidable competitor has emerged. The Holiday String Lights from Nanoleaf are colorful, stylish and fully customizable.
Do you already have several Nanoleaf products at home? Then you will probably be happy with these Christmas lights. They connect seamlessly to the existing system, but can also be used as a first introduction to the brand.
The 20 meter Nanoleaf Smart Holiday light cord has 250 LEDs that you can set ‘individually’ in more than 16 million colors. You can control them with the connected controller, Nanoleaf app or via a Smart Home ecosystem such as HomeKit. They connect to WiFi, Bluetooth or Matter over WiFi.
Super smart Christmas lights
Nanoleaf’s Christmas lights can not only be controlled via WiFi or Bluetooth via the app, you can also activate and change them via HomeKit, Google Assistant and Alexa. This is a nice addition because the HomeKit and Google Home products are also becoming increasingly popular in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Finally, the Nanoleaf Holiday String Lights are one of the first to support Matter. This makes the Christmas lights completely ready for the future.
Matter is an IP-based connectivity protocol that allows smart home devices from different brands to work together. This means that you can also connect the Nanoleaf lighting directly to a Matter hub without the intervention of the Nanoleaf app. This can be done, for example, on a HomePod or Apple TV 4K.
Bright and full colours
You have to love colored Christmas lights, but the Nanoleaf lighting cannot be compared to traditional colorful lighting. The LEDs are fuller in color and anything but standard blue, red, green LED light.
For example, the lights can also display soft pink, purple, green, yellow, warm white, etc. This allows each family member to set their favorite Christmas lights. Thanks to the playlist option, it is possible to put together your own effects and alternate them automatically.
Nanoleaf light chains can display more than 16 million colors. That is certainly the case, but of course they remain shades of the basic colors of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet and everything in between. And if you like it cool, white is also an option.
The colors remain beautifully full, even if you adjust the brightness. Nanoleaf does this better than their competitors. With Christmas lights from other manufacturers, such as Twinkly, the color often becomes less beautiful when the brightness is adjusted, Nanoleaf retains the set color in most cases. This way purple remains purple instead of dark blue.
Using effects
Nanoleaf products are known for their versatility and personality. You can personalize almost all of the brand’s products in detail, and this is also the case for the Christmas lights.
With the extremely advanced app, the possibilities are almost endless. This way you can activate different scenes and put them together yourself, so you can give the LEDs your own color, brightness or effect. At first the application is busy and confusing, but fortunately after a few days you will soon find out exactly how the app works.
By default, the lights feature some bright and colorful scenes such as “Candy Cane”, “Holiday Magic” and “Crackling Fireplace”. These create a magical atmosphere and you can adjust the speed, brightness and movement.
The controller contains a microphone that is used to control the lights to the beat of the music. Turn up your favorite Christmas song and watch the lights respond to the music, dancing and moving along to every beat.
Discover new combinations
The Discover tab is a page in the Nanoleaf app that you will visit regularly. Via the tab it is possible to download and install new scenes for your Nanoleaf products. There are thousands of light shows available for download for all categories. With one tap on the scene you can view it in real time on your Christmas lights and via the download button you can add them to your own library.
Easy installation
Connecting the Nanoleaf Christmas lights is very easy and the app helps you set it up step by step. Then you can use them immediately.
Of course you also have to hang the lights in the tree. It’s best to start slightly below the center and work one half of the cord up and the other down. The string of lights contains 250 LEDs divided into two times 125 LEDs per 10 meters, sufficient for Christmas trees up to 180 cm high.
Perfect for indoors
The Smart Holiday Lights are perfect for indoors and can also be used outdoors. Please note, they have an IP44 certification. This means that they are splash-proof and resistant to rain. They are not waterproof. This does not have to be a problem, but with prolonged use the water resistance may decrease.
Looping through is not possible
The string of lights contains 250 LEDs divided into two times 125 LEDs per 10 meters, sufficient for Christmas trees up to 180 cm high. If you want a lot of Christmas lights in your tree, you can of course hang several sets in it. Unfortunately, you cannot loop this through to make one long garland. In the Nanoleaf app you can group them so that you can operate them at the same time, but effects are not continuous.
Conclusion: Nanoleaf Holiday String Lights
REVIEW SCORE
If you are looking for special and beautiful Christmas lights, the Nanoleaf Holiday String Lights are a great choice. With the app you can set the Christmas lights exactly as you want and provide the necessary effects. You have control over which colors are displayed, from bright colors to gold or pastel. Of course, the price is much higher than ‘traditional’ Christmas lights, but you certainly get value for your money.
You can also use the lighting in combination with HomeKit and other smart platforms. This way you can switch on the lights using Siri or automations. You can also easily control the lighting via the controller on the lights themselves and a smartphone is not always required.
- Very good quality LEDs, with full colors
- Can be fully personalized to your own wishes
- Suitable for Matter, HomeKit, Google Home and Alexa
- Beautiful effects that you can adjust in detail
- Quick manual operation via integrated controller
- Advanced app sometimes makes creating effects complicated
- Not waterproof, but IP44 certification
- Looping is not possible, but grouping is possible in the app
Buy Nanoleaf Holiday String Lights
We also have an extra tip, the lights can also be purchased via the Nanoleaf webshop. They have a points and friends system there. By purchasing products, posting a review, liking posts, etc. you can save points that you can then exchange for a gift voucher for their webshop. So be sure to create a Nanoleaf account before ordering your products because every euro is worth 10 points.