The stock Govee integration is OK. The Govee Lights is better with local control and I get to control devices that the current stock Govee integration does not do.
I would like to see the scenes get imported, some way.
Which scenes do you mean, do you mean the light effects on RGBIC strips?
When you go into the app, under “Scene”. I could get where DIY would be too hard to implement. Music might also be a setting some would like, especially for a party setting.
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The problem is that Govee didn’t make the API for that publicly available, not even cloud-based…
And I pester Govee, too.
I did also write them 4 mails complaining about the lack of local API for DIY modes and scenes, and the “best” result I got was a customer support survey, where I realistically gave them 1 star out of 5, I would have given them -5 if it was possible…
I don’t think the 1 out of 5 stars helps your case when you do that. I did ding them one star because of this issue. 1 stars usually make them just ignore the review and I usually read a few and think in my head, “yeah, they are overblowing the situation” or “they have no idea what the product was intended to use”. To me, a 3 or a 4 tells them, they did a good job but there is room to improve.
Keep with the E-Mails. Encourage others. I am at least one other doing that. Squeaky wheel.
I already thought that I came one step closer to my goal of a full, local HA integration of my H619C light strip when I saw this message from the user JosueToday on the govee discord:
I was able to reverse engineer how to make the LAN API do more! I have to send an email to Govee to see if they don’t want to allow this or if it’s a matter of documenting how to do it. If it’s a lack of documentation I will publish a how to
Just as I wanted to ask him if he can share his RE results with me, I got a response from a mod that he is no longer on the server
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The LAN API is night and day better than the stock one. Interesting that he was no longer on the server. Wonder why.
I think he either got a refuse from Govee and then left it in frustration, or Govee (-> mods) kicked him, but I think the former.
But anyway, I think they (Govee) just didn’t (and still don’t and won’t) care about two people writing them an email, because introducing local APIs doesn’t bring them any economic benefits or money (Gove is like 
), so they just don’t give a sh*t as long as the “standard customers, non-HA users” still buy their products without it.
this sounds promising…
Hello,
I had some time and I wanted to practice yaml so I tried to make my govee radiators work with the new API :
https://developer.govee.com/
To do this, I added to my config.yaml :
rest_govee_newappliance:
url: https://openapi.api.govee.com/router/api/v1/device/control
method: POST
headers:
Content-Type: application/json
Govee-API-Key: !secret goveeapi
content_type: ‘application/json; charset=utf-8’
payload: ‘{“requestId”: “1”, “payload”: {“sku”:“{{ cmd_sku }}”, “device”:“{{ cmd_device }}”, “capability”: {“type”:“{{ cmd_type }}”, “instance”:“{{ cmd_instance }}”, “value”: {{ cmd_value }} }}}’
verify_ssl: true
This creates the service, which must then be called with the data as follows:
service: rest_command.rest_govee_newappliance
data:
cmd_sku: "device model
cmd_device: "device id
cmd_type: “command type name”
cmd_instance: "instance name
cmd_value: "desired value between ’ since this can be either a text or a name
Can this also bebused for toggling scenes until the LAN imtegration supports it out of the box (or does it already?!)
Nevermind this post before I edited it. I had to disable the Govee LAN integrations. Got it working. NICE!
I do not see scenes.
I can see the H7033s have individual segment control, now. I guess if I wanted to, I could get created but no chasing or moving.
My H7050 and H7051 just allow for overall on, off, overall color, and brightness.
Getting there.
Has there been any progress on this front? I just picked up a couple 6076 stands since Amazon is doing a fire sale on the first generation light sets.
I just hooked them up to HA’s local integration but a little surprised it didn’t have any form of scene control - only color and brightness.
Would it be better to move to Govee/MQTT?
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