Review: Govee Christmas Sparkle String Lights

Govee Christmas Sparkle String Lights

I've had my eye on Govee Christmas lights for a year now and when our pre-lit tree died I took the opportunity to try them out. Here's some Pros, Cons, and some thoughts.

Pros:

• Very easy to set up

• Very nice warm white, compared to some some other "warm whites" I've experienced.

• Many fun animated scenes kids and color lovers will enjoy

• Matter support

Cons:

• Matter support is very limited, only On/Off, Brightness and Single Color

• I was hoping for a way to make a color set that simply alternated between Red, White, and Green, but you only seem to be able to select the color of segments of lights.

• I still think that Govee is unable to mix the Warm White LED with the color LEDs, so in my example of creating a Red, White, and Green color pattern, I believe the Warm White is emulated RGB Warm White, not actually using the dedicated Warm White LED. I've seen this with all of their light sets that allow you to choose individual colors. I believe it is a limitation of the chips that are used, and I don't know if anybody offers a better solution.

• Even though Govee to MQTT Bridge exists for Home Assistant, it's still not a direct and straightforward integration, and not built in. I wish Govee would work with Home Assistant like LG has to make an developer supported integration, and take advantage of their LAN API, which this device supports. LAN API is not enabled by default, so my Govee to MQTT where going through the cloud for a while, not that that doesn't work, it's just silly and unnecessary.

More To Come

More info and videos to come on this Product.

Links

Amazon Affiliate Link (Helps me a tiny bit maybe? I don't know):https://amzn.to/48bsMHk

Amazon Regular Link (Doesn't help :-)): https://a.co/d/gplQR4I