Noon Lighting System review | TechHive

When you get down to it, most smart switches are not all that smart. A wireless radio that talks to a hub or an app? Maybe a touch-sensitive dimmer? That’s it? Surely we can do better than that in late 2017. Noon Lighting thinks it can, and even in version 1.0, its eponymous Noon Lighting System is easily the most inventive and capable smart switch on the market. It’s also very expensive, but oh so worth the cost.

The central idea of the Noon Lighting System can be found in the Noon Room Director, a single rocker-sized switch with an OLED touchscreen embedded into its surface. The Room Director replaces one centrally located switch and does the heavy lifting for the system. Additional switches in the area can be replaced with the less-expensive and touchscreen-less Noon Extension Switches.

Updated January 21, 2020 to report that Noon Home has been acquired by Racepoint Energy, a sister company to the smart home component manufacturer Savant. We have made an inquiry as to how this change will impact the retail availability of Noon lighting products and will update this story when we hear back.

Now here’s where the magic starts: The Room Director can control not just the circuit it’s wired to, but as many as 10 Extension switches, too. If your living room has three or four switches used to control various lamps and light fixtures, you no longer need to wander the room to turn them all on or off or adjust their brightness. You can program the Room Director to handle all of them. But that’s not the end of it, because the Room Director supports multiple lighting scenes that you create through its savvy, well-designed app.

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I installed the system in my kitchen, which has three types of lights: overhead canister LEDs, under-cabinet fluorescents, and a chandelier with incandescent bulbs in the dining area. With Noon Lighting I was able to set up scenes to turn on all the lights at full blast, or just a few of them at a lower brightness level in whatever combination I desired. Every Noon switch includes a dimmer system, so you really have a mountain of options available.

The Room Director is the centerpiece, and it works beautifully. Its integrated OLED is bright and vividly displays the name of the scene you’re running along with its icon, automatically lighting up when you pass by. To switch scenes, you simply swipe up or down on the switch panel. To turn the whole thing off, just depress the bottom of the switch as you normally would flip a switch.

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Extension Switches work independently of the Room Director, too, so if you have…