Govee Home Reviews

by Work Lots Play Some

I had asked for the Govee as a gift with WiFi and two temperature/humidity sensors. I found it a little bit of a challenge to get things to connect over WiFi, but not too bad. I put one sensor inside and one outside between a window and screen. I really like that I do not have to use Bluetooth on my phone and that I can check temp. and humidity from anywhere I have a signal.

The first problem I had is that GoveeHome will periodically loose the sensors and I have to look up my password and re-login. I also found the help through GoveeHome to be not much help, especially when a phone call would be significantly more efficient and effective. So problem is still not solved.

Now both sensors report a fault. One then started working. I replaced the batteries on the other and it still showed a fault. So I deleted its connection to add it back manually. Just to find out there are no instructions to add the sensor back manually. I was give these for Christmas 2019. It is now May 3rd, 2020. Needless to say I will not buy more for the rest of my house or recommend to family. Very disappointed.

by Alantingle

My iPhone 13 is running iOS 15.2. The Govee home app installed is version 4.7.2. I am on cellular data and I tried connecting multiple 5705 thermometers to GoveeHome . They show up as Bluetooth devices within GoveeHome , with the correct device names. When trying to connect to them, from GoveeHome , you can see the connection icon on the device, so they are communicating over Bluetooth. GoveeHome then comes back with a Network Error indication and the device doesn’t pair. If I use my iPhone as a hotspot, then connect my iPad running 15.2 to the hotspot, I can use GoveeHome on my iPad to connect to my the devices successfully. Since I don’t have Wi-Fi at my location and these are Bluetooth devices, why are they dependent on a Wi-Fi network to setup on GoveeHome ? Please update GoveeHome to allow set up of the devices, when using cellular data. Also the Network Error indication is misleading, as it should say Wi-Fi Network Error. The user assumes it is a Bluetooth Network Error, because they are pairing a Bluetooth device at the time.

by Varzo11

Update: so this would be awesome if it pushed data to my iPhone at regular intervals. It does not. So it really doesn’t matter if you set the alarms, you will not get a high/low alarm unless you manually sync. If you are manually syncing you don’t need an alert, because you will see it yourself. So the only thing that is good about this unit is that I can manually check the current humidity and temp without having to open my humidor.
UPDATE: this unit has always been off compared to two other hygrometers I have. I decided to perform a salt test. After the test, my other two were fine, one at 75% and one at 76%. This Govee unit read 88.6%!!! Off by 13.6%! Unfortunately GoveeHome calibration will only adjust 9%, so it always reads 4.6% higher than it really is. Stupid. Please please make GoveeHome so it will allow a larger calibration! Honestly 13.6% is really bad, but if I could calibrate it to correct the full difference I wouldn’t care. GoveeHome should easily be able to increase from +/- 9% to +/- 15% or 20%. The Govee hygrometer should be better than this but at least I could use it.

by Angels Fan #*^{}]#

Every Question or Review of your backlights keeps asking if you can place the unsightly camera BELOW the TV instead of having that AWFUL Camera On Top of the TV! Many customers, as myself, have placed the camera UNDER the TV And are happy and satisfied with your product. IT IS NOT THAT HARD to CHANGE YOUR APP to ALLOW CALIBRATION ROTATION BY 180 DEGREES. If your app “designers” are so smart to create this WONDERFUL device, a MINOR CHANGE WOULD ALLOW CALIBRATION OPTIONS AT BASIC ANGLES, such as 90, 180, 270 and 360 angle degrees. Such a simple fix! And also a GREAT SELLING POINT! Your sales would GO UP AND UP AND UP!!! When I had my camera at the top of my TV, my guests were impressed, but did not BUY YOUR PRODUCT because of the UNSIGHTLY CAMERA ABOVE THE TV. If you allowed the option to calibrate the camera from those 4 other angles, I’d bet your sales would go up super FAST! Now, can you please, please your customers and ADD THIS SIMPLE OPTION TO CALIBRATE YHE CAMERA AT different angles? You will see your success and sales RISE IMMENSELY! Your attention is much appreciated!!!

by Mollyec_art

We just have lights for our house, specifically I use Govee lightbulbs for my bedside lamp. It really has the bare minimum of features. There are a lot of things that I would expect with this kind of app and bulb that are just not met, including:

- App does not sync to the world clock - in other words, it didn’t change the time with Daylight Savings and there’s no way I can find to manually change the time, I think I’d have to reset the whole thing or something

- The gradual brightness only works with certain settings... “Wake up” doesn’t work with alternative colors or warmth. “Sleeping” changes the lamp settings to a specific scene and you can’t even schedule it.

- Also with “Wake up”, an automatic turn off doesn’t work. I use the wake up function in the morning and then wanted it to turn off automatically in case I forgot but it just... doesn’t do anything

- there’s no widget for lamps, just for a thermometer I don’t have, so it’s a pain to dig through my apps just to turn off my light (which I have to do because the auto off doesn’t work)

- tried setting up Siri and it just didn’t work

These are just the things that annoy me the most, it feels like they really didn’t bother actually making the lamp functional or testing it with users. It changes color, sometimes turns on and off, and has a couple extra functions that don’t integrate whatsoever with the rest of the functions. Can’t recommend in good faith.

by Raeb37

The thermometer itself works great and communicates data to GoveeHome . The only problem is that GoveeHome does not allow one device to act as a hub and allow for other devices to read the data being sent by the “hub”. I have a device that is always connected to the thermometer via Bluetooth and that device is also connected to WiFi. GoveeHome itself should communicate the same data no matter what device it is installed on if they are all signed in under one account. However, that is not the case - each device has to be within range of the thermometer in order to read the data. This makes no sense and is useless to me when we are away from the home. Can GoveeHome be modified so that multiple devices can sign into the same account and see the current temp reading from whatever device is reading the data??

by Rys0n

First of all I want to say I love that you guys are updating GoveeHome to make it better. The new update is a great step. Siri Shortcuts and IFTTT integration for scenes would REALLY make this system great. I’d love to be able to set the lights up to do certain things based on Siri Shortcut triggers and be able to set something up to integrate with my Twitch stream using IFTTT or something like that.

Buuuuut I can’t change scenes on my H6117 after the new update. I clicked on the new Glacier scene and it changed, then all the scenes disappeared. I can tap “scenes” and they pop up again, it does the thinking animation, and they go away again. I can send you guys a screen recording if you want. Glacier is neat, but man I would like to change it to any other scenes rn lol just gonna have to settle for solid colors until a fix comes in

by Worldomination1

I’m very satisfied with the RGBIC light strips I purchased other than two separate strip lights of the same model don’t match up with colors and tones and white lights. GoveeHome also does not live up to par. The most recent update states RGBIC lights now support individual segment brightness but that option is no where to be found along with the finger sketch feature under DIY missing. The new music mode that uses the phone mic doesn’t work under group mode so when you try to do it to separate strip lights at the same time, it stops the mic feature when you go back to the main menu. Also when you have music mode activated with the rhythm setting, it doesn’t work whatsoever when theres any type of bass. App needs a lot of work!

by TooMuchCowbell_77

I use a bunch of these to monitor my attic and my freezers. I want to be aware if the pipes in my attic are in danger of freezing, and if the expensive meats/foods in my freezers are in danger if the freezer quits working or the door is left open.

The one major shortfall in the software so far is that the alerting for temperature range cannot be split between high temp and low temp. You can only have alerts on or off, but for freezers this is problematic because the low range is only -4F, so you constantly get alerts that it is “too cold”, when all you really care about is if the temp gets too warm. Would be perfect if you could turn on alerts for hot/cold separately or have a lower value than -4F for the cold side.

by Maryclairemoran

I’ve had the car lights for a while and i just bought a few strips for my room! The brightness is astounding for making my room lighter in the day and when I want a cool vibe in the night i love all the different color choices! ONEE thing i would ask y’all update is the group choices (scenes). Since my room’s perimeter is larger than 16 ft (duh) I grouped the three strands i have into one scene and i control their color from there with no issue. HOWEVER, one of my favorite things about Govee lights is the option to have the lights flash to the beat of my music. With three separate strands of lights i cannot get them to sync when they flash so i suggest adding the music option to the scene pleaseee that would make them literally perfect thats all I ask. Overall worth the buy though!!

by My Review999

Overall, GoveeHome is very good and does just what it should. I use it for multiple thermometers and linking them and collecting the data is very simple— a lot like downloading my steps from my smart watch. I have two issues that I think would be easy for the developers to address. First, I wish GoveeHome worked in landscape mode. As it is, it only works in portrait mode. For our application of this product we use ipads with keyboards, so a landscape mode would be helpful for us. Second, there doesn’t seem to be a way to export the data. If there is, it is not readily apparent. It would be great to be able to export a file with the data that we could then use in other ways. But, if you only use this with a phone in portrait mode and have no need to export the data, GoveeHome works great.

by Productive Procrastination

I’m using GoveeHome to control a set of the RGBIC LED strips I purchased from Govee.

The different lighting features are fun to play with and the diy section is interesting (although limited in that you can’t program diy scenes with static colors for each subsection).

The timer for automatically turning the lights on and off is flawed. I was hoping to use this function to gently fall asleep/wake myself up everyday, but you can’t individually program how the lights will look when they turn on and how they will look when they turn off. This means you can really only use the sunrise OR sunset scene (both of which I find quite pleasant, but not when they play at the wrong time). Whatever the settings are when you fall asleep, that’s what you’ll wake up with. But you’re going to have a hard time waking up with the sunset scene in the morning, that’s for sure.

I’m surprised they don’t have an option to create multiple scheduled programs for the lights where you can choose from the scenes (and music modes, and segmented color modes) that already exist within GoveeHome . In my humble opinion, the automated lighting is not automated enough.

by Reyyan Elfiky

So I got the govee led strips and I connected them to govee home and it was simple and easy, there’s just addition that would be nice and bug, so the bug is when I added a shortcut by long pressing GoveeHome (iOS) I saw that there was a shortcut thing so I added it. Now I don’t know if this has anything to do with it but when I go into GoveeHome and I see all my devices and click on for one of them it takes a little bit and then says operation succeeded but no lights turned on but when I click it again it works, and I do not own Alexa and do not plan to so I think that it would be great to add in more support for instance the shortcut app like make a shortcut that turns on the lights or changes the colors. Those two elements aside I think you have a great product I would love to see those two worked on.

by C00lkatz

Bought the Bluetooth ARGB LED strips from Govee. They work very well, get plenty bright. GoveeHome works great. You do need an external USB power adapter, though, higher the amp rating, the better. Didn’t work well powered off my TV or with a typical 500mA charger, some effects would cause the LEDs to reset: Swapped it out for a higher power charger adapter. Still get some feint “flicker” at times but not too bad or noticeable unless you’re really looking for it. GoveeHome is nice and mostly intuitive. I do wish there were better control over speed, though, not very much difference between high and low. Been running these strips for nearly 2 years without issue once I got the power situation sorted. Bluetooth always connects and is much better than the flimsy remotes you typically get. Don’t know about their other products but happy with the LED strips.

by IT Has Crystal

It’s very cool, and playing around with it has been fun, however, I noticed that when you create a scene you also limit the amount of functions you can use with the lightbulbs. You can still go into each lightbulb individually and set them to mic mode for example, but even if all are on, only one will work at a time. If they added all of the functions to Scene you could control all of the lights in your light fixture with the different modes and I feel that really needs to be added. ALSO, turning on the mic function automatically turns off any music you are playing on your phone and disconnects a Bluetooth speaker. This may be because the mic is set up to come from your phone but if there’s any way to change this, it would be nice to use this problematic function. Otherwise they’re great though!!

by DigitalPimple

The lighting is fantastic. What I can’t stand though is the lights stay on when the TV is OFF and not ON when Turning the tv ON. Manually must turn lighting on and off. I set them up through Alexa. Alexa will turn them ON and OFF fine BUT will not set it to it last state - IE Movie mode. When I set it in Alexa to movie setting, it seems to do nothing. I end up having to open up the lighting app and resetting it to movie. Avoids the whole purpose. Highly disappointed that every time I turn on the TV I have go into my phone app to turn the lights on/off and set them correctly. Needs a **FIX** or a smart way to tell when tv is on/off on its own. otherwise great effects.

by Josh Skidmore

Govee was running a sale on their thermo/hygrometers, so I bought one to test it out. I was so impressed by the quality of both the hardware and GoveeHome that I ended up buying five for the house🤣! What I really like about GoveeHome is that it's very organized; all their products appear in a consistent, thoughtful way. It's easy to add new products, and I haven't had an issues syncing my hardware from GoveeHome . They update GoveeHome often and provide a detailed changelog.

Many of their products have cheaper bluetooth-only and more expensive bluetooth+wifi versions. If you buy the bluetooth-only version, you can only sync/control that hardware when you're in range of the device. When you're outside of the range, the device will appear within GoveeHome with the most recent data, but you cannot sync or take action on the device. The bluetooth+wifi versions allow sync/control when you're not near the device. (The company is very clear with these limitations, but I've read many reviews where this causes them to remove stars.)

by Noxtreme

Update: they have now fixed GoveeHome scaling for the 15in iPad Pro. THANK YOU! I’m now happy with this bulb and GoveeHome .

Update: GoveeHome is now 100% unusable with 15inch iPad Pro. After the update it was crashing on open. I was able to get that to stop by deleting and reinstalling but it’s now impossible to get my light added back in because of the scaling issue. YOU SHOULD AT LEAST REMOVE IPAD FROM THE COMPATIBLE DEVICES LIST IN THE DESCRIPTION.

didn’t care about the colors or modes or any of the fancy things this light bulb could do. I simply wanted a bulb that I could turn off from my iPad without having to get out of bed. It was ok at first even though GoveeHome had scaling issues. But, Over the last two updates the scaling issue got worse, Now there are connection issues where it does not even connect to the light unless I put GoveeHome in the background and reopen it. I’m about ready to see if I can get a refund since GoveeHome developers seem to be consistently making GoveeHome for controlling these lights worse. A smart bulb is just a very expensive lightbulb without competent app developers. Fix GoveeHome for iPad please!

by KuraFire

Can I think of shortcomings, improvements, bugs or other issues with the newest Govee home experience? Sure, but a 5-star rating is not reserved for the purely flawless.

I’m giving it 5 because of how satisfyingly excited the newest feature updates make me. With the addition of Siri control and DIY mode for schedules, my dream smart room just became significantly closer to reality. Now, I can use Siri to change not only my HomeKit-enabled smart lights (etc), but also my Govee light strip (and soon, strips). Mood switching, mornings & evenings & late evenings, it all got so much better overnight with this change.

GoveeHome itself is getting better and better along the way. Still much to improve, e.g. this crashing bug: drag to reorder Smarts. But what used to be cosmetic frustrations over a deeper qualitative dismay about the lack of Siri / HomeKit integration, those have now become my primary remaining complaints. A massive win, truly.

If you like the quality of the Govee light strips, the latest app update has made them that much more versatile and powerful. Joyful.

Thanks, Govee team!

by Bridgebuilder99

Update #2 - GoveeHome continues to get better and more stable, as do their products. I have many strip lights and bulbs in my home, one of which stopped connecting to WiFi. Excellent Customer Service! After a few unsuccessful emails to try resetting etc, they are shipping a new one, free of charge. Can’t ask for more than that!!!

Update: Since my previous review below this function has been added so you can now control any number of sets of lights together using the scene function. This completes GoveeHome for me and is now 5 stars. Shout out to Govee for updating their app regularly and not just abandoning it like lots of others do.

GoveeHome is overall very good and easy to use and set up, however, it lacks one critical function. You can not link multiple bulbs or LED strips so to change colors or anything you have to do each one individually. It’s unnecessarily painful. There is a work around using Alexa routines but still very tedious. I hope the developer reads this and others similar requests as this would be an easy 5 stars if they added this function.

by Yohippo

I have had these lights for 3 years. I like them a lot. The lights have work perfectly but GoveeHome is terrible. GoveeHome will NOT work on IPad as have of the screen is cut off. You just can’t use it on iPad because buttons are cut off. I understand GoveeHome is meant for phones but my phone was broken for a couple of weeks. During this time I had to move the lights and could not connect them to WiFi after the move from my iPad so Alexa could not control them. I know that it’s not GoveeHome makers fault that my phone was broke but still. To summarize I just think that GoveeHome should work on iPhone and iPad.

by Bobbyhel

my wifi enabled lights will just stop being connected to my wifi because GoveeHome needs my location. You don’t need my location to work. My lights aren’t moving anywhere they are stuck to the wall. There is no reason to have my location. When using alarms to have the lights turn on it only shows 24 hour clock format. you also have the ability to set the alarm to a certain color and brightness but when it turns on it only uses the previous color and brightness not the one the alarm is set to. Also all light controls should be able to be done over wifi but for some reason it only does it over bluetooth.

by Software Support Admin Drew G

GoveeHome is not ready to be used with iPad’s , not user friendly , not able to change from C to F not able to view GoveeHome but in one mode this is NOT READY TO BE DEPLOYED ON IPADS JUST DON’T DO IT!!! I wish i knew this before i spent my hard earned $$ on this. GOVEE ....PLEASE UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE TO WORK FULLY WITH IPADS ...PLEASE!! Should be able to see in in more then one mode.....left to right or top to bottom of iPad...able to access setting to change from C to F... the hardware is great so far the software not so much... just sayin think twice before spending any $$ on this till it is updated.. if you are using and iPad..

by Med City Rider

Can someone over there figure out what the issue is with WiFi connectivity between your devices and app, once and for all... and actually resolve it? With every minor bug fix update, it either gets slightly better or takes a noticeable step back and becomes unreliable again. This most recent update seems to be one of those steps backwards, where attempting to connect an existing devices to the WiFi just results in repeated WiFi setup failure messages.

by Austin Son

For the love of Christ please fix this. I cannot put into words how annoying and frustrating it is for an app to abruptly begin prompting login requests once a week out of no where. Then when you incorrectly attempt a password that you know is correct you are forced to reset your password. Please fix this, if this was a beta version fine but for a functioning app to ridiculous. Other than that I have no issues using GoveeHome. If this issue was fixed I’d say 4.5 stars for overall quality but this login issue is a big issue.

by @TheFollowList

I bought a strip light system and it’s almost perfect for my application. However I was really hoping to have one very specific lighting effect with this system that currently doesn’t exist. I really need the color follow effect where it appears that one color after another follow each other down the strip, making it appear as though the colors move from the beginning of the strip towards the end. Not a new effect by any means, just not available via GoveeHome controls or settings.

by Iowasjk

I think the only thing missing is the ability for the colors to all go around the room at the same time.. Like they’re chasing each other or something like that. That would make this product really cool.

by KMSoftly

GoveeHome and lights work as expected. GoveeHome is easy to follow, just find the lights you bought and connect them. From there it’s choosing how the lights go off. I would prefer if the music mode could follow the song that you’re playing on your phone instead of using just the mic, the light strip i ordered is far away from the speaker in my room and the lights just sort of spazz out when put into music mode.

by Texinthecity

I purchased two remote temperature/humidity sensors. They work just fine and U am very happy with them. GoveeHome on my iPhone XR works fine and I am happy with it. It is quite annoying however that GoveeHome does not work well on my iPad, where it only presents in portrait mode and you only can see part of the data for each sensor at a time. You have to scroll to get the data. So I use my phone, but it is ANNOYING!!!

by DannyDuncan69

Lights work great, the colors are awesome, and decently easy to install. HOWEVER, the money you are paying for the amount of lights you get is a bit much AND GoveeHome won’t even install on my brand new IPhone XR which means until this problem is fixed I am stuck with paying nearly 50$ for 5 different colors of lights that I have to get up to turn on/off.

Update GoveeHome pleaseeeee.

by Rommytommy

I bought one of the LED light strips and overall the two products work great together; however, one feature I would like is when creating a DIY light setup to be able to have my different colors stay on without having to flash or jump around, like one of the regular single color setups just with multiple colors

by Ninja Squirrel 1980

I use this with the bluetooth Govee meters. Works really well overall.

2 things I would like added... Ability to change the name of the meter in app at anytime would be really nice.
Not having to be connected to the internet for GoveeHome to work. I have to use the devices in remote locations and WiFi/LTE is extremely spotty. So I have to put my phone in the right place for it to work.

by ItsSamCam

If you purchased the led strip lights and downloaded GoveeHome, you’re in for a treat! GoveeHome works great for your led strip lights, it tells you how to use them on GoveeHome , it gives you modes you can change to, it even lets you make your OWN modes! If you downloaded GoveeHome because you bought the led strip lights, you’re in luck. GoveeHome deserves 5 stars!