Nanoleaf Matter Essentials B22 LED Bulb, RGBW Dimmable Smart Bulb - Matter over Thread, Bluetooth Colour Changing Light Bulb, Works with Google Apple, Room Decor & Gaming

Picked up a Nanoleaf Essentials Matter B22 bulb to replace a previous non-matter bulb, and it’s been spot on from the moment I plugged it in. Joined Apple Home without a fuss and has stayed reliable. No random dropouts, no weird colour shifts, none of the usual smart-bulb drama. Brightness is solid, colours look clean, and the white temperature range is actually useful rather than just "for show”. I’ve been using it for warm evening lighting and brighter daylight scenes, and it handles both really well. I love using the adaptive mode in Apple Home to adjust the temperature to match the light outside. What I like most is how responsive it is. Changes from Apple Home or automations happen instantly, and Thread support keeps everything snappy. It feels like a proper, modern smart bulb rather than something clunky hanging off Wi-Fi. Also love that I can tie it into scenes or bedtime routines without thinking about it. It just behaves. If you’re in the Apple ecosystem and want a reliable Matter/Thread bulb that doesn’t cost a fortune, this one’s a no-brainer. I also joined it into Home Assistant with no issues at all.

This nano leaf bulb was a great purchase. It was extremely easy to setup, I used apple homekit and it was a scan, switch on and it linked extremely fast. The home kit options are great but limited. So I later used the official nano leaf app and there are a range of options, strobe effects etc. The bulb itself is nice quality and can be easily dimmed or set to 100% for a very bright light. The nano leaf bulb offers a range of apps to use along side the official app and allows me to use my Alexa, nfc tags (through shortcuts and apple homekit). This was definitely worth the money, especially at the price I got it for (1/4 of the price)

Constant issues with matter, won't connect to home assistant, when it eventually does it disconnects and have the task of repairing the devices. It's a shame because the colour is really good. Let down by poor software and the worst connectivity I've ever seen in a smart device

I am deep in the Apple ecosystem, I have returned bulbs that no matter how long I tried, I couldn't get them to connect despite their claims that they are HomeKit ready. This one connected in less than a minute and has never missed a beat, highly recommend.

Warning: whilst this bulb uses Matter, it only supports matter over thread and doesn’t support matter over WiFi. As a result, I couldn’t connect to Alexa or Google Home as I didn’t have the latest version of Nest or Echo that has a built in Thread-based router (TBR). I wasn’t prepared to upgrade my Echo Dot to the 4th Gen so instead bought the Osram bulb, which does support Matter over WiFi as that easily connect to my home WiFi. Whilst I could have installed the Nanoleaf app to control the bulb, I don’t want yet an other 3rd party app on my phone connecting to my home network. Bulb also seemed to get quite hot after 10mins

Key points: Good light bulb, nice colours, useable maximum brightness, latency/performance is highly variable, 'works' with my Google home assistant. Extended review: I have a Google nest display 2, so I thought it would be a good idea to get a smart lightbulb for a cool sunrise effect and use the red light at night (for better sleep obviously). Connecting the bulb to nanoleaf's app was fine and work pretty well to be honest. The problem is that it used Bluetooth, and the whole point of buying a matter enabled device is to use matter. This is where my Google nest display comes in, it acts as a thread router, basically allowing my bulb to use matter (I believe it creates some sort of separate network on a different frequency so it doesn't interfere your WiFi or Bluetooth devices, that's one of the the main benefits). And like a lot of other people I had trouble with setting up and it took hours blah blah blah... I had to disconnect from the nanoleaf app, reset the lightbulb to default settings via some magic light switch code: power cycle the bulb 5 times (turn on the bulb, turn off the bulb immediately, wait 3 seconds, repeat for a total of 5 times) If done successfully the bulb will flash red like some intruder alarm. Connect to my Google home app as a matter enabled device by scanning the qr code on the bulb or the sticker on the included quick start guide (the better option if you don't want to be blinded while the bulb is on). I also installed the nanoleaf app afterwards and made sure to connect the bulb again and ensured it was using the thread network. Results? A smart bulb that works most of the time 👍, there are occasional hiccups where it takes sthe bulb about 5 seconds to turn on or switch colours, which doesn't seem to happen on Bluetooth... But usually it performs well, takes about 1-2 seconds to change in Google home app, and instantly on nanoleaf's app. As for what smart things I use it for: I give control of it to my alarm and morning schedule to turn on slowly before the alarm. I also made 2 single word routines 'daylight' and 'night light' (that's just how Google interpret speech, I would have preferred 'day light') It changes the colour and brightness of the bulb simply. Oh right, main downside of a smart bulb, you would want to control it with smart stuff only. You can still turn it on and off at the light switch, but it will disrupt the connection between the bulb and the smart device, so it will have some issues when you then try to change some settings. (There are some cool smart switches that allow you to operate smart bulbs without cutting power to them, but those are expensive and require installation)

Absolutely perfect. Keep in mind that you'll need a Thread hub to get the most out of this bulb, but once set up it's been very smooth and unbelievably quick - finally a product meeting the promise of smart home ads!

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Works great - appears most negative reviews are from people who don't understand how Matter over Thread works. If you're a Home Assistant nerd this will work no problem for you.