Works great – thank you!!!
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Sorry I am new to the forums and I realise I was being really vague. When I installed the update my light strip was no longer recognised by HA. I don’t have the logs for it as I tried fixing it a bunch of ways.
The problem I was having was downloading the repo. After you mentioned logs I went on a digging expedition and found that github doesn’t play well with IPV6 and for some reason its been fine with all my other integrations just when I tried to download this one it.
Now that I disabled IPV6 on HA it downloaded and worked like a charm. It seems that the update didn’t fully download which is why it went a bit wonky! Thanks for the integration and sorry to have gotten a bit muddled!
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No worries, we are nice here 
Hm, IP is all aiohttp package in this integration, I’m requesting >=3.7.1 which was released almost 1.5 years ago. But home assistant core itself uses 3.8.1, which is the current version, so we should get the same.
No idea what doesn’t work here.
Broken for me with the latest update…
Maybe I’m missing something obvious here, but considering most Govee lights are predicated on their ability to “play” different scenes, what is the point of using an API that doesn’t support that ability? We can turn then on and off, change brightness and solid colors. That completely defeats the purpose of most of their RGBIC products.
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From what I can see online github just doesn’t fully support the protocol so if you try and download something with home assistants V6 enabled it can play up. Just a weird coincidence that it was this integration that caused me to discover it I think
I’ve been contemplating whether or not to dive into the Govee ecosystem but I’ve not been able to find any integration for all these other devices aside from lights. Are you aware of any way to get those other types of smart home devices into HA?
I was wondering the same if it’s worth it to invest into smart devices other than Lights and LED strips.
Given that it’s a cloud-only integration and they limit API calls based on their whims, with the exception of products that don’t exist with other manufacturers or are several times more expensive, I’d say HELL NO.
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That’s part of the reservation …… using HA was partly because of local controls. Can you offer other suggestions?
I see lots of people go with xiaomi; they set things up with an account and then block all connections afterwards, but their products aren’t readily available in Canada.
It depends on what actual devices you need…IKEA has some local Zigbee stuff, Shelly is also excellent if you have them in Canada.
Ive building a docker install of HA core, and added the govee to the custom component folder.
I go to add the integration and I get the error shown in the image.
Given someone said theirs broke with latest version, can someone confirm whether this has been tested with a docker install and with version 2022.4.3
Ive already added lots of other custom components, and integrations that work, so I know the process is fine, its just this one Ive trouble with at the moment.
thanks.
Hi there,
I just bought myself a govee backlight and wanted to integrate this. According to this thread, I assumed govee integration was already present, but it seems not:
So, am I missing something or has it been removed from catalog?
This is a HACS integration, it will not be available using the vanilla HA add on installer. You have to install HACS first at https://hacs.xyz/
This integration (as far as I can tell) has been broken since 2022.4.0. I raised an issue on GitHub 20 days ago, but there has been no response/input/reply from the original developer. Is this still under active development, or do we have to look for another way of getting Govee devices working in HA ?.
(I understand the dev(s) might well be busy with other things…)
Broken how?
I am on 2022.4.7 and works fine for me with a Govee H6199.
I downloaded the master.zip from the op link and compared it to my working installation and there were a few differences. I have listed the differences in the 2 files below, you can try manually changing them if you want to see if it makes any difference…
Oh and on a side note, hacs doesn’t update very often any more and it doesn’t cause any sort of slow downs, so I do recommend using it, but obviously it’s your installation.
config_glow.py
Change line 6 from govee_api_laggat.govee_api_laggat import GoveeError
add line 13 from typing import Any
light.py
change line 6 from govee_api_laggat import Govee, GoveeDevice, GoveeError
remove line 8 from govee_api_laggat.govee_errors import GoveeError
change line 50
hub.events.new_device += lambda device: add_entity(
async_add_entities, hub, entry, coordinator, device
)
to
hub.events.new_device += lambda device: add_entity(async_add_entities, hub, entry, coordinator, device)
change line 319
"rate_limit_reset": datetime.fromtimestamp(
self._hub.rate_limit_reset
).isoformat(),
to
"rate_limit_reset": datetime.fromtimestamp(self._hub.rate_limit_reset).isoformat(),
@sleeepy2 Very much appreciate the fast response, however I bit the bullet and installed HACS (used and early version of this years ago and it put me off…).
Installing the integration with HACS works perfectly…, don’t see why this is any different from doing a manual install from the repo, but hey ho…, I’ll just see if I can live with the HACS integration this time around.
Thanks Again.
Hi,
I have integrated Govee LED strip with home assistant successfully and it was working flawlessly until we had power outage. Now it would not connect to HA. I have requested new API apparently it does not work either also tried with old API still no luck. Any input would be greatly appreciated.