Govee integration

wiltodelta · January 6, 2025, 5:02pm

Updated the guide on how to support Govee heaters. Now supports state from API GitHub - wiltodelta/homeassistant-govee-smart-heater-h7131: Govee Smart Heater H7131 Integration for Home Assistant

Tamiami · January 21, 2025, 7:53pm

@LaggAt Since last update of HA many users encountered issues with homekit. A recommendation by users was to deactivate Govee integration. That worked for me. Are you aware of it? HomeKit Bridge stopped working when Govee entities are included · Issue #135358 · home-assistant/core · GitHub

channa · January 26, 2025, 4:04am

I keep receiving errors when I try to use the Govee integration, my lights connect just fine and then I try to control them from the dashboard and it works for the first few times and then it stops working and I get a whole bunch of errors about rate limit exceeded. Any help would be great.

anon31320818 · January 26, 2025, 3:51pm

You’re being rate limited. Meaning your auth key is hitting the govee API too many times per minute.

Do you have a lot of devices? Or several govee integrations setup?

cdmichaelb · January 26, 2025, 11:12pm

Just happened to me too,

Could not connect to Govee API: API: API-Error 429: {“message”:“rate limited! the limit is 10000 requests every 24 hours. X-RateLimit-Reset in Http Response Header shows the reset time.”}

No integrations.

3 listed* devices
H6078 lamp, H605C tv backlight, and H6045 RGBIC Smart Backlight.

It happened after:
adding H6054 RGBIC Smart Backlight (Bluetooth only)
adding H6045 backlight light strip
adding H5151 WiFi Refrigerator Thermometer gateway
adding H5108 WiFi Refrigerator Thermometer
changing my H6078 lamp to be a distributed gateway

anon31320818 · January 27, 2025, 12:35am

Seems like the integration needs to try and send less requests. It resets every 24 hours apparently.

Need to open an issue.

saimanoharnethi · February 9, 2025, 4:52am

Thank you for this integration. You could add H601A to the list. These are smart recessed lights from Govee. Your integration worked beautifully. Much gratitude.

Rice_Eater · February 9, 2025, 5:11pm

Just wondering but is this thread about a specific Govee integration or all of them? I’m using Govee Life(HACS), Govee Bluetooth, and Govee Lights Local. I know about Govee2MQTT but didn’t bother with it because the other 3 were enough to get my 5 Govee devices into HA.

But I’m interested in getting one of their electric kettles now and from the looks of it, work on the Govee Life integration is dead. So anyone knows if Govee2MQTT support kettles now?

saimanoharnethi · February 9, 2025, 9:54pm

Nvm, I got rate limited as well.

P6Dave · March 6, 2025, 10:02am

I hear the official Govee integration has had an update in HA Core 2025.3. The update includes the addition of scenes/effects available in many Govee lights. I’ve not updated yet and am using Govee2MQTT. Just wondering if anyone has updated yet and if they have noticed any improvement?

deeess206 · March 6, 2025, 8:18pm

I’m using the Govee to MQTT bridge to control an H6072 light but when the light comes on, several random segments of the light come on at a random brightness that is less than I set. Here is the YAML code related to the automation.

The dim segments change each time it turns on. How dim they are changes each time as well. I’ve tried adding a step where it goes to 0 brightness, waits, then goes to 100 with no success.

Is this just a limitation in the integration or is there a way to fix this?

  alias: Wake Up Light
  description: ''
  triggers:
  - domain: sleep_as_android
    device_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    type: alarm_alert_start
    trigger: device
  conditions: []
  actions:
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data:
      brightness_pct: 100
      rgb_color:
      - 255
      - 244
      - 224
    target:
      entity_id: light.bedroom_lamp
  mode: single

Cure · March 9, 2025, 9:43pm

It does, however, I got it to recognize my H7171 kettle but after a day or so the entities are greyed out.

Rice_Eater · March 9, 2025, 9:59pm

I actually did buy a Govee Kettle(H7173) and setup Govee2MQTT even though I wasn’t sure if it was supported. It works perfectly so far.

I have no idea what could be the problem on your end but I haven’t had any issues since I got it about 2 weeks ago.

Cure · March 10, 2025, 12:02am

I just had to reinstall the Govee2MQTT and now it works fine.

kahilzinger · March 10, 2025, 4:34pm

I would love to see more Dream Viewer or video added to the list of options so that in the event I start a moving playing, we can automate that to start.

qJake · March 10, 2025, 7:04pm

I just bought the Sync Box 2 (H6604 C) and while the core functionality is great (LED lights sync near-instantly with the TV signal and look awesome), I’m disappointed by the smart connectivity.

I currently have it connected into Home Assistant via Matter, and it looks like I can only control the LED colors themselves, nothing else.

Am I missing something? Or is the following list currently not possible with Home Assistant?

Local/LAN control (not via Matter - just the Govee LAN API)
Changing HDMI inputs with a service call or via button entities
Setting the scene from static color back to TV sync with a service call or scene call (e.g. I changed the lights to be white via Home Assistant, and now I want to set them to go back to live TV sync - I can’t do this in HA?)

This is a really great product that’s just hindered by a bit of software. Govee needs to release a firmware update addressing some of these (or at least, make the app experience better - why is the input switch SUCH A TINY BUTTON IN THE APP??). And if you’re going to make an HDMI switch, it better be a good one - you should be able to toggle on or off features like power control (HDMI CEC) and auto input switching (when I turn on my PlayStation, you can’t switch to that input automatically? Really??).

Am I way off base here, or is this the same experience other people have with this product, too?

Lumos · March 11, 2025, 2:03am

Hey any luck with this?

soul350 · March 16, 2025, 9:27pm

Looking to better understand what the polling is doing. I have 4 can lights, and a floor lamp, and every day they stop working at some point because of the stupid 10000 API limit. 10000 calls per day/5 is 2000 calls per day per device. (24x60x60)/2000 = 43.2, so does that mean I need to set my poll interval to ~44 seconds to avoid hitting the API limiter?

If so, what is the side effect of this? Is it just polling state to see if lights are on or off? I care more about controlling than seeing status.

TheBartoMan · March 23, 2025, 7:49pm

I have the H6604B (Govee HDMI 2.1 Sync Box Kit 2). I have it all setup in the iPhone app and working, I alse the integration setup in Home assistant with the API entered.

The device doesn’t show up? Is it supported, please?

remsta · April 1, 2025, 7:24am

Anyone else constantly getting
“Cannot connect. Is the API-Key correct and the internet connection working?” when trying to add a new API key.

I had one in there which worked a few days ago, I had polling set to 10 because I didn’t understand the instructions, 2 days ago, controlling stopped working on the lights. I assume I was blocked but I am not sure — I don’t understand the polling piece, I have 4 lights, so do I set it to like 200?

Thank you