Simple Lighting Mode

The Lighting page has two modes of its own, and simple mode is the one that fits on a single screen: a palette, and every device Nexus controls wearing the color you press. No tabs, no device list, no effect editor. If what you want is a build that is all one color, you never have to leave this page.

1. Setting a color

Press a swatch. Every device Nexus controls takes that color and holds it, and the swatch you picked stays marked so you can see what is running.

The palette is a fixed grid: fourteen color families across, five shades of each down, from the softest tint at the top to the deepest at the bottom. Hovering a swatch names it, for example "Blue 3". There is nothing to save and nothing to apply - the press is the change.

2. Knowing what Nexus is driving

The line beside the mode chip counts how many of your lighting devices are being driven, out of how many exist: "5/8 lighting devices controlled". A device sits outside that count when it has been taken out of Nexus control, which the advanced page can do per device.

When some are not being driven, a Control all button appears next to the count. Press it and Nexus claims the rest, turns their lights on, and puts them on the current color; the button then goes away because there is nothing left to claim.

If the advanced page left a setup running that simple mode cannot show - an effect, or different colors on different devices - a note says so: "A custom lighting setup is active. Switch to advanced mode to manage it." Pressing a swatch replaces it.

3. Turning lighting off

The chip at the left of the row opens the page's own menu. Off stops Nexus driving RGB entirely. The menu says what that means: "Stops driving RGB. Devices fall back to their own lighting."

4. Moving to advanced mode

The same chip menu switches between Simple mode and Advanced mode, and the card at the bottom of the page is a shortcut to the same switch: More effects, templates and per-device options.

Advanced mode is where the rest of this section lives - the effect catalog, per-device colors, canvas layouts, and the LED map editor. Switching is not destructive in either direction: the color you set here is still what your devices wear when you arrive, and coming back to simple mode does not delete anything advanced mode set up.

Tip

The choice is remembered per page, so you can keep Lighting simple while Cooling stays advanced, or the other way around. Cooling has its own simple mode.

5. Next steps