Having problems getting the Govee lights local integration working

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Using the built -in Govee integration doesn’t discover the devices. It comes up “No devices found on the network.”

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The lights are on a separate subnet which I use for 2.5Ghz devices, so generally IOT things. I can communicate with other devices like Hue Hub and Elgato lights. The subnet is listed in the system network settings:
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Is the built-in integration broken, as I can only seem people using the HACS ones? If so which HACS one works best for local control?

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I’ve been having issues with the official govee integration for a little while so decided to reinstall but not I’ve reinstalled I’m getting the same issue you are.

Integration installs ok but when setting up it finds nothing, where previously it recognized 4 govee devices. all are connected to 2.4GHz, accessible in the govee app and all have the lan option enabled.

Bit confused…

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I don’t get the integration installing, I just get it failing with no devices found. As no one had responded I just installed the Goveemqtt add-in and that found the devices immediately, so it would seem to be a problem with the built-in integration.

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I’m also running into this issue. I’m hosting home assistant in a docker container, but with host networking so I don’t think it should have any issues with multicast device discovery. I wish the integration gave us the option of just supplying an IP address.

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Same issues as described above. Don’t suspect any weird local network issues or MDNS problems. Hoping for a solution!

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This is looks to be a known issue, it is only checking for devices on the primary interface. I tried disabling that interface but it still didn’t look to be checking the 2nd one. There is a fix waiting to be merged into HA. So I guess when that get released it should work>> Add multiple NICs in govee_light_local by itewk · Pull Request #128123 · home-assistant/core · GitHub

I guess you could possibly merge the changes yourself on your system but I’ve not done it before and don’t have time to research the process.

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Having exact same issue here, recently got 2 ‎H607C Floor lamps, Set in Govee app for API control. Install Govee Integration & put in API key & Integration installs fine, but does not see the lamps. Tried 3 times, removing integration & deleting Govee folder, but same result. Very frustrating.

FIXED IT!!

When in the add integration search, you need to type
“Govee Lights Local”
To get the correct integration (& it does not need an API key)

Lamps now visible & controllable!!