Help & Setup Guide
Getting the most
out of your Nuur.
Everything you need to know - from first power-on to changing your reciters. Setup takes under a minute and works from an iPhone, an Android phone, or any laptop.
Connect your Nuur to WiFi
This only happens once — when you first plug in your Nuur, or after a factory reset. No app to install, no account to create. The whole thing takes under a minute.
Plug in your Nuur
Connect the USB-C cable to the fast-charging power supply. Your Nuur starts broadcasting its own WiFi network named NUURXXXX (the last four characters are unique to your device).
Join the NUURXXXX network
On your phone or laptop, open WiFi settings and connect to NUURXXXX just like any other network or scan the QR code displayed on screen. No password is needed to join it.
The setup page opens automatically
iPhone and Android will prompt "Sign in to network" and open a browser for you within a few seconds. On a laptop, open any browser tab if one doesn't appear on its own — you'll land on the same page either way. If no page has opened after about 20 seconds, Nuur shows a second code marked OPEN PAGE: scan it with your camera to open the setup page.
Choose your home WiFi and enter the password
Pick your home network from the list (or tap Other network… to type its name), enter the WiFi password, and tap Connect.
Look at your Nuur
Your phone disconnects from NUURXXXX while Nuur joins your network, which can take up to about 20 seconds. The setup page may close by itself; that's expected. From here, Nuur's own screen shows how it went.
Connected, then your settings
Nuur shows a check and CONNECTED, then fetches today's official MUIS prayer times. Next it shows a code with a gear: scan it with your camera to choose reciters and volumes, or tap the نور pad to skip. You can open the same code any time by holding the pad.
Step 2 — joining the device's own network
Step 4 — entering your home WiFi
Step 6 — setup complete
Typed the wrong password? No need to restart the device. Nuur shows the reason on its screen, then its join code again with TRY AGAIN. Rejoin NUURXXXX and the setup page reopens with the reason and your network already chosen.
Opening your settings page
Your Nuur is pre-configured and works out of the box — opening settings is optional. When you do want to change something, there's no app store and no account. Just a QR code on the display.
Hold the middle touch pad (نور)
Press and hold for about 1.5 seconds. This works from the normal clock face at any time — except during the adhan itself.
Open your settings page
Option A: A QR code appears on the display for 60 seconds. Open your phone's regular camera app and point it at the screen — no separate app needed. It opens your Nuur's private settings page in your browser.
Option B: If you can't scan the QR code, open my.nuur.sg in your browser and enter the access code shown on the display manually.
The code disappears the moment you use it. As soon as your phone opens the settings page, the display goes back to the clock without waiting out the 60 seconds. That is the code being spent, not the screen failing — it has done its job and is no longer worth showing to the room. Hold نور again whenever you need a fresh one.
Put it on your home screen — it installs like an app
Once the page has opened, a card at the top offers to install it. Do it once and your settings open from a Nuur icon like any other app — full screen, already signed in, no QR code next time. Nothing is downloaded from an app store; it is the same page, kept one tap away.
- Android phone or tablet, or Chrome or Edge on a computer
- Tap Install on the card.
- iPhone or iPad, in any browser
- Tap Share (tap the menu button first if Share is hidden), then Add to Home Screen, then Add.
- Safari on a Mac
- File → Add to Dock → Add.
- Firefox
- Firefox doesn't install web pages. Bookmark
my.nuur.sginstead — your browser remembers you, so it opens without scanning again.
Closed the card by mistake? The small install button beside ? at the top of the page brings it back.
Hold نور for ~1.5s to bring this up
What scanning the code opens
No login, no password. The link itself grants access to your Nuur settings page. The access code is valid for only 5 minutes and changes every time you request one.
What you can change
Today's MUIS prayer times are shown at the top of the settings page for reference (read-only — they always come straight from MUIS). Below that, everything is adjustable per prayer.
Master volume
One slider (0-15) that controls every prayer's audio proportionally. This is the same level you can change day-to-day with the touch pads on the device itself.
Per-prayer reciter
Choose the adhan reciter independently for Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha, with an in-page preview so you can listen before saving.
Per-prayer volume & ambient
Set a relative volume per prayer (e.g. Fajr quieter, Maghrib louder) and pick a pre-adhan ambient track — or turn it off — for each prayer individually.
Pre-adhan window
Choose 5 or 10 minutes of gentle amber glow and soft ambient audio before each adhan begins, so the household is ready before the call is made — or turn it off entirely.
Display brightness
Set the peak brightness level and toggle the automatic dimming ramp that runs after Isha for a quieter nighttime glow.
Media volume & sleep timer
The media player has its own independent volume, an optional sleep timer (15 / 30 / 60 minutes, or off) that stops playback automatically, and a repeat setting — all / one / once — across all five categories, not just Al-Quran.
Reciters for the player
Two separate choices: the reciter for listening to a whole surah, and the one that renders the short Quran passages inside the morning and evening adhkar. They answer different questions, so changing one leaves the other alone.
Daily Remembrance
Every reading Nuur plays on its own, with a switch beside it, and a longer or shorter version where there is a choice. See what your Nuur plays on its own.
Quiet moments
Sunrise, Qiyam and the Ramadan suhur alarm — when each opens, how long it plays, and its own ambient track and volume. All three are silent until you choose a sound.
Ramadan
The month's adhan voice, the suhur alarm and the month's own readings, all in one place — visible year-round, so it can be set up before the month rather than on the first night of it.
Today's prayer times, per-prayer controls, and the display, media and programme sections
Changes apply within seconds — your Nuur is notified the moment you save. If it happens to be offline at that exact moment, the change is picked up automatically the next time it syncs.
The three touch pads
Everything on the device itself is controlled with three capacitive touch pads on the front — ◀, نور, and ▶. What they do depends on what's currently playing.
Volume down, or move backward through the grid or the track list
نور
Tap, double-tap, or hold — meaning depends on context (below)
Volume up, or move forward through the grid or the track list
The three pads sit along the bottom edge of the face
| While showing the clock (nothing playing) | What happens |
|---|---|
| Tap | Master volume up/down, shown briefly as a level bar |
| Tap نور | Open the media player — the four categories. Nothing plays yet |
| Hold نور (~1.5s) | Show the settings QR code for 60 seconds |
| While the media grid is open | What happens |
|---|---|
| Tap | Move the highlight between categories. Faded categories are empty and get skipped |
| Tap نور | Open that category and play where you left off in it |
| Double-tap نور | Close the grid and return to the clock |
| Wait 15 seconds | Closes on its own, without playing anything |
| While something is playing | What happens |
|---|---|
| Tap | Media volume up/down — independent from master volume |
| Tap نور | Pause |
| Double-tap نور | Stop and return to the clock |
| While paused | What happens |
|---|---|
| Tap | Scroll through the tracks in the current category — the name appears on the display |
| Tap نور | Play the selected track |
| Double-tap نور | Stop and return to the clock |
To change category, stop with a double-tap and tap نور again — the icons reopen on the category you were just in. There is no gesture that switches category mid-playback, on purpose: the pads you would use for it are the volume.
During the adhan itself, only (master volume) respond — نور is disabled so it can't be interrupted by accident. To mute at any time, turn master volume all the way down with ; there's no separate mute button.
Playing Al-Quran, adhkar, nasheed and tazkirah
One tap on نور opens a row of four categories. Everything streams live over WiFi so you can choose from multiple reciters — and if the connection ever drops mid-surah, Nuur restarts it with a backup reciter saved on the device rather than going silent.
| Category | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Al-Quran | All 114 surahs, in your chosen reciter |
| Adhkar | Remembrance and supplication: the morning and evening adhkar, Du'a al-Duha, Ruqyah, Salawat, and in their season the Laylat al-Qadr munajat and the Eid takbir |
| Nasheed | Devotional songs |
| Tazkirah | Short reminder talks, added over WiFi. The category starts empty |
Tap نور from the clock face
A row of four category icons opens over the prayer schedule, with the name of the highlighted one underneath. The clock, date and banner stay where they are, so you can still see the time and the next prayer while you choose. Nothing plays yet.
Move between categories with
The highlighted category is the amber icon, with its name underneath. The row opens on whichever category you used last. A category with nothing in it yet is drawn faded and is skipped as you move past it.
Tap نور again to play
Playback starts from wherever you last were in that category — each one remembers its own place, so switching to adhkar and back returns you to the surah you left. If you leave the grid untouched for 15 seconds it closes on its own without playing anything.
Tap نور to pause, then browse
Once paused, scroll through the tracks in the current category by name instead of adjusting volume. Tap نور again to play the one you've chosen. While it's playing, those pads are the media volume — separate from your adhan volume, so getting it right here won't change how loud the adhan is.
Double-tap نور to stop
Two quick taps (within about 0.5 seconds) return the display to the normal clock — from the grid or from playback. A pre-adhan window or the adhan itself will also pause playback automatically and resume it afterward.
One tap opens this — the clock and next prayer stay visible above it
The category stays on screen while it plays, so you can tell what you're hearing
A sleep timer is set from the settings page (15 / 30 / 60 minutes, or off) and applies to everything the player plays, not just Quran recitation. The volume works the same way — one media volume across all five categories.
When a track finishes
What happens next is up to you, and it is set on your settings page rather than on the device — it sits in the player bar beside the sleep timer.
| Setting | What happens at the end of a track |
|---|---|
| All the default | Moves on to the next track in the category and keeps going — through the surahs in order, wrapping from 114 back to 1 |
| One | Plays the same track again, and again, until you stop it or the sleep timer does |
| Once | Stops and returns to the clock — the same place a double-tap takes you |
This only affects what you start yourself. A reading from the daily remembrance always plays once and then ends, whatever this is set to — so leaving it on One will not put the morning adhkar on a loop. Everything that already interrupts playback still does: a pre-adhan window, the adhan itself and the sleep timer all take over regardless of the setting.
What your Nuur plays on its own
Beyond the adhan, Nuur reads a short daily remembrance through the day. Each reading is tied to one of today's MUIS prayer times rather than to an hour on the clock, so it stays in the window it belongs to as the year moves, without you adjusting anything. You can switch any of it off, and switch more of it on, from your settings page.
On from the start
| What plays | When it plays |
|---|---|
| Morning adhkar | 15 minutes after Fajr, and always finishing before Syuruk — the morning remembrance belongs between Fajr and sunrise |
| Surah Ya-Sin | 42 minutes after Fajr, also finishing before sunrise |
| Du'a al-Duha | 20 minutes after Syuruk, once the sun is properly up |
| Surah Al-Waqi'ah | 30 minutes after Asr |
| Evening adhkar | Starting 75 minutes before Maghrib and finishing 15 minutes before it — the part of the evening window closest to Maghrib is the more emphasised one |
| Surah As-Sajdah | 22 minutes after Isha |
| Surah Al-Mulk | 37 minutes after Isha, straight after As-Sajdah — the two before sleep, in the order they are narrated |
Off until you want them
| What plays | When |
|---|---|
| Surah Al-Kahf | Fridays, finishing before Jumu'ah |
| Al-Kahf, first ten ayat | Thursday evening, 45 minutes after Maghrib |
| Ruqyah Shar'iyyah | An hour after sunrise |
| Salawat | 17 minutes after Maghrib |
| Surah Al-Isra | 27 Rajab, after Isha |
| Mawlid al-Nabi | The eve of 12 Rabi al-Awwal, after Maghrib |
| Takbir, Days of Tashriq | 9–13 Dhul Hijjah, after each obligatory prayer's du'a |
If a window closes, the reading is left — not played late. Each reading has to fit inside the window it belongs to. On a short morning, if the adhkar cannot finish before Syuruk, Nuur does not start them and does not run them past sunrise instead. Nothing is broken; the day simply moves on. This is the single most common thing mistaken for a fault, and it is the behaviour working as intended.
Most of it works without WiFi. The whole list above that is on from the start is kept on the card inside the device, along with the ruqyah and the takbir, so a router outage does not silence your day. What does need WiFi is nasheed, and anything dated or seasonal. If Nuur cannot reach one of those, it skips it rather than substituting something else.
Turning things on and off is done under Daily Remembrance on your settings page — a list of every item above with a switch beside it. Some have a longer and a shorter version to choose between. What you will not find anywhere is a time field: each item already knows the prayer it belongs to, and that is the whole point of it.
Three quiet moments
Nuur marks three moments in the day that are not prayers. Each one replaces the prayer schedule with a scene for a few minutes and then puts it back. All three are silent unless you turn their sound on, in the settings page, where each has its own track and its own volume.
Sunrise (Syuruk)
The sun rises on the panel and clears the horizon, at the minute it rises outside. Set it to open 5 or 10 minutes early, and it holds for 5 minutes after.
Qiyam
A quiet night sky at the start of the last third of the night — worked out from tonight's own Maghrib and tomorrow's Fajr, so it moves with them. Runs every night of the year.
Suhur
Ramadan only. First light on the panel, with sound that rises to wake you. See the Ramadan section below for how the timing works.
None of these three is a call to prayer. Sunrise, Qiyam and suhur are not prayer times, and Nuur will never play an adhan at any of them — there is no setting for it and no way to reach one. The audio you can switch on is an ambient track only. If you find a sound option here, that is what it is.
Ramadan, Eid and suhur
Ramadan arrives on its own. Nuur follows MUIS's published Islamic calendar, so the month begins and ends on the dates Singapore actually observes — including a date MUIS revises after a moon sighting, which reaches every device on its next sync. There is nothing to switch on.
The suhur alarm
Off by default. When you turn it on, you choose how early you want it: 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour or 1½ hours before Imsak.
| What people expect | What it actually does |
|---|---|
| That 90 minutes means it plays for 90 minutes | It does not. That setting chooses when it starts. It then plays for 5 or 10 minutes, rising in volume, and stops. It is an alarm at an hour you picked, not a soundtrack until dawn |
| That Night Mode will keep it quiet | It will not, deliberately. The suhur alarm sounds through Night Mode — waking you is the entire point of it. This is the one thing on the device that overrides a quiet display setting |
| That it needs an Imsak setting too | It does not. MUIS defines Imsak as 10 minutes before Fajr, and Nuur already has it. If your pre-Fajr window is on, it simply opens at Imsak for the month — an extra five minutes if you had it set to 5. If you had it switched off, it stays off: Ramadan does not turn anything on that you asked to be silent |
The month's own programme
- A Ramadan adhan voice. Choose one reciter for the month and Nuur uses it for Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha, leaving your usual choices untouched when the month ends. Fajr keeps its own voice — the Fajr adhan has words the others do not, so it is never swapped.
- The iconic Iftar Qasidah, Ya Rabb — Ya Rabb Karamuka Alaina — after the Maghrib adhan.
- The Tarawih lead-in, 15 minutes after Isha.
- The Laylat al-Qadr munajat on the odd nights of the last ten, an hour after Isha.
The two Eids
Eid al-Fitr: the takbir plays after the post-Maghrib du'a on the eve of 1 Shawwal — the Maghrib MUIS announced, whether Ramadan ran 29 days or 30 — and again shortly after sunrise on the day itself. A clock that assumes a 29-day Ramadan plays the takbir a day early in a 30-day year, on a day that is still Ramadan. Nuur waits to be told.
Eid al-Adha: the takbir of the Days of Tashriq, after each obligatory prayer from 9 to 13 Dhul Hijjah, is available but off by default — it is frequent, and whether a household wants it is a real choice. Turn it on under Daily Remembrance.
Reading the display
The display is organised into four fixed zones, top to bottom, so the information you need is always in the same place.
| Zone | Shows |
|---|---|
| Date bar | Today's Gregorian and Hijri date, in dim white |
| Main clock | The current time (HH:MM) in large digits, with small status icons |
| Banner | The single most relevant thing right now — e.g. an upcoming prayer countdown — shown in amber |
| Prayer schedule | All five prayers for the day in dim white, with the next upcoming one highlighted in amber |
Dim white = general information · amber = what's happening now or next
During Ramadan, the same clock face automatically gains an overlay — Imsak time, the current Ramadan day number, and a Lailatul Qadar indicator on the likely nights — with nothing to turn on. It switches back on its own once Shawwal begins.
The status light
A single small LED on the rear of the device gives you an at-a-glance health check without needing to open the settings page.
Connected to WiFi and synced with MUIS — everything is up to date.
Connected to WiFi, but hasn't synced fresh MUIS times yet — usually resolves on its own within a few minutes.
Offline. Prayer times are still accurate — see below.
If your WiFi changes
If your Nuur loses its connection — a new router, a changed password, or a move to a new home — it doesn't lose accuracy. It keeps showing correct prayer times from its own memory and an onboard backup clock, and shows a small offline indicator so you know reconnecting is worth doing.
Hold نور
While offline, holding نور for ~1.5 seconds reopens the same setup network from Step 1 (NUURXXXX) instead of the settings QR code.
Reconnect exactly as before
Join NUURXXXX from your phone or laptop and enter the new WiFi network and password — exactly as you did during the first-time setup above.
No need to disconnect the device for a simple reconnect — a single hold of نور is enough. Disconnecting the device (the rear button) is only needed if you want to change WiFi while it's still connected, or to pass it on to a new owner.
Disconnecting the device
A small recessed button on the back handles both a simple restart and forgetting your WiFi — the difference is how long you hold it. This doesn't touch your settings — for a true factory reset that also clears them (e.g. before passing the device on), see Passing It On below.
| Press | Result |
|---|---|
| Short press | Reboots the device — same as unplugging and plugging back in |
| Hold ≥10 seconds | Clears saved WiFi credentials only, then restarts into the WiFi setup step above |
Your reciters, volumes, and other settings are kept in the cloud and are not erased by this button — only the saved WiFi password is cleared. That's exactly what you want for reconnecting to a different WiFi within the same home. If you're passing the device to a new owner, this button alone isn't enough — see Passing It On below.
Passing your Nuur to someone else
The rear button above only clears the saved WiFi password. Your settings — and your own browser's access to them — live in the cloud and survive that button on their own. To hand the device over cleanly, do both of these, in order.
Reset it from your settings page first
Open my.nuur.sg, scroll to the bottom, and tap Reset device to factory defaults in the Danger zone, then confirm. This clears every saved setting back to default and signs out every browser that had access to this device — including yours. It takes effect immediately, whether or not the device is online at that moment.
Then hold the rear button for 10 seconds
This is the same rear button described in Disconnecting the Device above. Holding it clears the saved WiFi password so the device disconnects from your home network and restarts into the WiFi setup step, ready for its next owner to connect it to theirs.
Do step 1 before step 2. Step 1 works from your phone right now — the device doesn't need to be nearby or even online. Step 2 just makes sure it stops using your WiFi; skipping it isn't harmful, but the device would keep running on your home network (with default settings) until someone else changes it.