4. The mirror's buttons
Each light on your mirror has its own touch button on the side, built into the frame rather than on the glass — so the mirror stays free of fingerprints and smudges. One for the front light, one for the back light (depending on which lights your mirror was built with). Three gestures cover everyday use, and pressing both buttons together lights a candle:
| Gesture | What it does |
|---|---|
| Tap | Turns the light on or off |
| Double-tap | Cycles the white tone: warm → neutral → cool |
| Hold | Dims the light smoothly — release to keep the level |
| Both buttons together | Candle light — the light flickers softly like a candle flame |
Tap — on and off
A single tap toggles the light. The light responds a short moment after the tap — the mirror briefly waits to see whether a double-tap is coming. Turning on brings back the brightness and tone the light had before, with a gentle fade.
Double-tap — white tones
A double-tap steps through three tones of white: warm (cosy evening light), neutral, and cool (daylight-like), then back to warm. Double-tapping a light that is off turns it on as well. If the light is currently between two tones (see chapter 6 on natural light), the cycle simply continues from the nearest one.
Hold — dimming
Hold the button and the light sweeps smoothly through its brightness range; let go at the level you like. Each new hold sweeps in the opposite direction — if it dimmed last time, it brightens next time. Holding from off always brightens, starting near the bottom. Dimming all the way down turns the light off.
One detail: a hold longer than about six seconds locks in the level on its own — the button then waits for you to actually lift your finger before it listens again. (And a much longer hold — 10 seconds — is a deliberate, separate gesture: it opens WiFi recovery, chapter 3. Ten quick taps in a row are another: the factory reset, also in chapter 3.)
Both buttons together — candle light
On a mirror with both a front and a back light, press both buttons at the same time (within about a third of a second — neither light switches on by itself first) and the mirror turns into a candle: the back light glows a soft, warm white and flickers gently and irregularly, like a flame, while the front light does the same at its very lowest level. Made for a relaxing bath.
To end it, tap any light button — both lights go off, and that tap does nothing else. Tap a button again to switch its light on as usual. Pressing both buttons together again also ends it.
Good to know:
- The candle runs inside the mirror, so it works without WiFi.
- Circadian lighting (chapter 6) leaves a burning candle alone.
- With motion lighting on (chapter 6), the mirror switches its lights off — the candle too — once it has not noticed any movement for the wait you chose. For a long, still bath, choose a longer wait or switch motion lighting off in the app.
- After a power cut the mirror starts with its lights off; light the candle again with both buttons.
- A mirror with only one light has a single button, so this gesture needs both lights.
The heating button
If your mirror was ordered with anti-fog heating, it has its own touch button for it. Tap it to switch the heating on or off. It stays on until you tap it off, and the button glows red the whole time.
The heating pauses by itself when the glass reaches 40 °C and resumes once the glass has cooled to 38 °C. If the heating is off and the glass is still warm, a tap won't switch it on until the glass has cooled to 38 °C.
The button's glow
Each button has its own colored glow, separate from the mirror's white light. You choose its color and intensity in the app (chapter 5) — and it can show a different color while your finger is on the button. The glow remembers its color even after a power cut.
The heating button is the exception: while the heating is on, it glows red, whatever color you chose.
Blue pulsing is special: a button pulsing blue once a second means the mirror is in WiFi setup mode (chapter 3).
Always on duty
The buttons work in every situation — with or without WiFi, before pairing, during software downloads. Local control at the glass is never interrupted by anything except the brief restart at the end of a software update (chapter 7).