For years, Philips Hue and Nanoleaf have basically ignored each other’s existence, each building its own walled garden of bulbs, strips, and panels. That’s changing. At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Signify — the company behind Philips Hue — announced a partnership with Nanoleaf that lets you bring Nanoleaf’s geometric wall panels into the Hue ecosystem for the first time.
The centerpiece is a new accessory called the Philips Hue x Nanoleaf Wall Light Module, a small clip-in adapter that costs $39.99 (£34.99) and attaches directly to a compatible Nanoleaf panel. Once it’s connected, you can control those panels from the Hue app or with a physical Hue switch, drop them into Hue scenes and schedules, and include them in entertainment/sync setups alongside the rest of your Hue lights — no more juggling two separate apps to get your smart lighting to act like one system.
That compatibility only extends to Nanoleaf’s Shapes lineup, though — Hexagons, Triangles, and Mini Triangles — so if you’re running Nanoleaf’s Lines, Blocks, or Elements panels, this module won’t do anything for you, at least not yet. A single Hue setup will support up to 100 connected panels, which should be more than enough for even the most ambitious accent wall.
One quirk worth flagging: despite Nanoleaf’s panels typically leaning on Thread and Matter, the new module talks to them over Zigbee and Bluetooth, Hue’s usual protocols. So this isn’t a Matter handshake between two ecosystems so much as Philips Hue building a bridge on its own terms.
The Wall Light Module will be sold on its own, as well as bundled into new starter kits alongside Nanoleaf Hexagon and Triangle panels, both arriving through the Philips Hue store on October 1st.
It’s a notably friendly move between two companies that have spent years competing for the same spot on your living room wall, and it comes as Nanoleaf, now under SwitchBot’s ownership, has been quietly shifting some of its attention beyond lighting. Philips Hue, meanwhile, used IFA to make it clear it’s not slowing down — the Nanoleaf tie-in landed alongside a new Sonos integration, refreshed Play sync boxes, and a batch of new gradient strips and decorative lights. But for anyone with a drawer full of unused Nanoleaf triangles, this might be the most useful announcement of the bunch.
