Posted July 5, 20214 yr Overview Govee creates high-quality LED lighting and smart home devices. They diligently strive to provide you with groundbreaking products that help illuminate your greatest moments in dynamic color. Govee devices include smart plugs, indoor LED strips, TV backlighting, floor lamps, table lamps, smart bulbs, guided lighting and more Features Bi-directional control and feedback Cloud based integration. Import of all Govee lighting from the customer account. On / Off control Brightness control Color Temperature control RGB Color control Advanced Lighting Scene Support FAQ Where can i purchase these devices from? Govee is available in the US, Canada, Europe and United Kingdom through various retails. Please visit http://www.govee.com for more details What hardware does this support? This supports any Govee wifi enabled devices. I want to try this driver out before buying it? All Chowmain drivers for Control4 come with a 90 day trial. How do I find out more information about the driver? Please see the links below for more information about the driver. Driver Link
July 5, 20214 yr Author On a side note Govee is having a 20% off sale on for their US customers. Looks like it'll finish in the next 24 hours so be quick. https://us.govee.com/
October 3, 20222 yr the issue with the cloud based integration is the delay and if for any reason you lose internet connection. you lost control of the whole house lights. sad...
October 5, 20222 yr On 10/3/2022 at 9:31 AM, Mr.barillas said: and if for any reason you lose internet connection. you lost control of the whole house lights. sad... True, but that is with any cloud integration, and the limitation is generally on the product/manufacturer (ie they only have an API for cloud integration)
October 5, 20222 yr On 10/3/2022 at 8:31 AM, Mr.barillas said: the issue with the cloud based integration is the delay and if for any reason you lose internet connection. you lost control of the whole house lights. sad... Just so it is clear this has nothing to do with the quality of the driver. I am sure if there was local network control it would have been implemented. Cloud services make a lot of sense when you need intensive hardware processing to make certain things happen. Turning on a light bulb i think is ridiculous to need a cloud connection for, and for other similar devices as well. Just have to be careful with products today. We already have seen the results of cloud services being terminated and whole homes ceasing to function correctly.
April 3, 20232 yr Is there an issue with the driver this morning? Maybe something to do with a C4 service issue currently on-going (4/3/23)? I seem to have lost connection, wondering if it's a Govee thing, C4 thing, and/or me?
April 4, 20232 yr Author 7 hours ago, Scrib said: Is there an issue with the driver this morning? Maybe something to do with a C4 service issue currently on-going (4/3/23)? I seem to have lost connection, wondering if it's a Govee thing, C4 thing, and/or me? Govee's servers are offline.
November 26, 20231 yr Is there any thought around adding local LAN control for the devices that support it vs. relying on cloud?
November 29, 20231 yr Author On 11/26/2023 at 11:48 AM, Scrib said: Is there any thought around adding local LAN control for the devices that support it vs. relying on cloud? We are aware of the local API. At this stage we do not plan on implementing the local API as we have other priorities.
February 19, 20241 yr G'day Guys, We've pushed an updated driver today for this as well 1. Even more performance works to reduce system latency overall. Especially with Debugging enabled, worst-case benchmarks showed a CPU processing time drop from 6.6s to 0.06s for 10000 log entries (28x-100x speedup). Other benchmarks showed a 9-22ms drop in time for certain operations (which in some circumstances may have appeared to be a CPU spike). 2. Scenes will work correctly now on CCT Only Govee lights 3. You can now see diagnostics for ALL Govee drivers in one click 4. Huge new Diagnostics tools, which not only identify more potential issues with our drivers, but, also if your Control4 Controller might be experiencing certain issues Andy
September 16, 2024Sep 16 G'day, Huge New Update in Govee today 20240917. Govee LAN Control is now supported. This is a FREE upgrade for existing users! This allows hugely improved responsiveness, bypasses server quotas, provides dimmable button links and other features. OS 3.4.2 is required, and you will need to replace your Light V2/V1 drivers with the new Local light driver. Download Link: https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-govee You will also need Govee LAN-Control compatible devices, and to turn on LAN Control in the Govee App for each device. To confirm if LAN Control is supported, the Govee App should show the option to turn it on.
October 18, 2024Oct 18 I wanted to check, does this driver work with the Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Pro? https://us.govee.com/products/govee-rgbicww-led-permanent-outdoor-lights?variant=43762138579129
October 18, 2024Oct 18 3 hours ago, BY96 said: I wanted to check, does this driver work with the Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Pro? https://us.govee.com/products/govee-rgbicww-led-permanent-outdoor-lights?variant=43762138579129 The list of lights which officially support the lan protocol is available in https://app-h5.govee.com/user-manual/wlan-guide The known list of lights which should support cloud (according to the API docs) is: Lights, Plugs, Switches: H6160, H6163, H6104, H6109, H6110, H6117, H6159, H7022, H6086, H6089, H6182, H6085, H7014, H5081, H6188, H6135, H6137, H6141, H6142, H6195, H7005, H6083, H6002, H6003, H6148, H6052, H6143, H6144, H6050, H6199, H6054, H5001, H6154, H6072, H6121, H611A, H5080, H6062, H614C, H615A, H615B, H7020, H7021, H614D, H611Z, H611B, H611C, H615C, H615D, H7006, H7007, H7008, H7012, H7013, H7050, H6051, H6056, H6061, H6058, H6073, H6076, H619A, H619C, H618A, H618C, H6008, H6071, H6075, H614A, H614B, H614E, H618E, H619E, H605B, H6087, H6172, H619B, H619D, H619Z, H61A0, H7060, H610A, H6059, H7028, H6198, H6049, H7031, H7032, H61A1, H61A2, H61B2, H7061, H6067, H6066, H6009, H7041, H7042, H604A, H6173, H615E, H604B, H6091, H7051, H7062, H618F, H605D, H6046, H601A, H61A3, H610B, H6047, H7065, H61E1, H6057, H604C, H6065, H605C, H705A, H705B, H7055, H61A5, H6078, H604D, H6168, H6601, H70B1, H61A8 If you already own the lights, you can try our 90 day trial
December 14, 2024Dec 14 There are newer gu10 bulbs by govee(H600D) that are not showing up in my dealers program, are they supported?
December 15, 2024Dec 15 G'day, Firstly, check if they have LAN control. If so, your dealer should update their driver and update to our new LAN Control Govee driver (which has much lower latency and doesn't rely on the cloud). This is a free upgrade for all Govee users. Otherwise, we're investigating their new Cloud API which seems to have a lot more options (but, there isn't much information regarding whether it will). This new API also allows more commands too Andy
June 25Jun 25 Just a few (missed) updates. The Govee V3 Local light and new V3 cloud driver did actually dd support for the new GU10's as while ago (we added the new cloud API, but you need to switch to our new V3 drivers for these lights). This was actually implemented in FebruaryWe also pushed a major update today (20250625) which adds support for generic capabilities and range capabilities, which may open up control of more Govee devices. These can be accessed via Actions and commands. And includes a slew of new improvements, fixes and workarounds too. Particularly people using the "previous on" preset for color, it has been tweaked for better results (and uses less of your rate quota if using the cloud V3 driver) . It should also be more responsive too when using the cloud lights in particular. Changelog is available on https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-govee#revisionsAndy
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