Govee Home

It's competent and fairly feature-complete. Some things I'd like to see changed are: 1. Give us an option to enter a numerical value for brightness levels of lights. The slider is too imprecise. 2. Give us an option to enter a specific hexadecimal value for color, or at least a proper color picker. The current color picker is entirely predefined colors, and while there is a good selection, there is sometimes a difference in colors between two different devices, so color would need to be offset.

The app is overly complicated to use. There are too many ways to choose colors, but it took multiple steps and locations in the app just to set up a simple schedule of on and off with a certain color scheme and in the evening based on the sunset time. The "effects" section just seems to show more color choices and no effects. To me an effect color changing sequence, flash, fade or smooth fade effect. I use an app with smart bulbs and outlets in my home already and that app is really simple.

Buy any other light. It's such a shame because the presets are AMAZING. the colors are awesome. But.... I've had multiple govee lights for many years, and they only connect 5% of the time if that. Doesn't matter if you follow the instructions or get closer to the device. You will never be able to actually use your devices outside of the manual buttons.