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WAIT a minute... where is the Paul Hibbert music ? I tune in JUST for the Paul Hibbert Music !! Where has the Corporate greed gone ?? CANCELLED....(Head blows up inserted here)... We need to change the Business model !!
man living in Aus sucks sometimes... lol nill availability on amazon US, ridiculously expensive from UK (like $180 au delivered) and direct store doesnt sent to Aus :-(
Govee and Hue are the only two smart lighting I’d recommend. I never had an issue with hue. Govee I only had a few issues with but that was with their older stuff, now I believe Govee are the king in smart lighting
hey you can also do the slow fade up over time in home assistant on the automation -> actions select Call service -> Light: Toggle or Light: Turn on -> slect transition and set the duration it takes to get to light leve you want
😳 I've been looking for this for ages!! There are forum discussions with people making code that doesn't work all o er the place, but not one entry that explains this! (or at least there weren't when I was looking). Thanks so much for this man! I can't believe the home assistant crew have buried this option under services!!
@@paulhibbert lifx had a fade up schedule - ( as long as it stayed connected) but my normal bulbs do, only issue i eer really had was with the beam, the strips would fade up
Keep in mind that it only works as well as the device you are scaling up. My inovelli dimmers seem to increment about 3% at a time rather than smoothly with my halo lights. I'm not sure if I should blame the switch, config, or bulb but it isn't the smoothest.
Regarding the whole 20 minute fade of the lights to wake up, google home can do that with any smart light. You just have to set a recurring alarm and in the menu there's an option to turn it on, called something like sunrise lights or something like that. I just know there's a slider to turn it on then you get to select which lights do it. Mine do it every morning and they're CYNC lights.
Here in my town, you can only purchase Philips Hue in our electronic stores. They don't have Govee or anything Else in stock. By the way, it's the same with Nanoleaf. Thanks for your Video, I finally ordered my first two Govee Produkts, one of them the M1 Llghtstrip. And I'm just happy with These.
Seriously, £80 for a 2m light strip? Build your own with an Athom Controller and WLED for probably half the price for a 5m strip. You NEED to take a look at WLED.
SUBSCRIBED!! Informative and funny content. Just bought some GOVEE string LED color lights for my yurt before I came across you video. Compatible with Alexa, includes light bulbs which can also individually be controlled using the app. Arriving tomorrow; can’t wait 😅 Switching to Govee team from Phillips Hue team!!
The "rising sun" thing can be done with just about any controller system. I've been doing it for years with a Sengled Zigbee bulb, and FHEM. I tell it when to turn on, and it starts the bulb at 1%, increasing 3 every minute for half an hour or so before I want to be up.
I really want to like Govee, but the strips I've got here (H6159 and H6143) have the worst yellows I've ever seen from an LED. It's basically lime green, and given they're RGBW, the "warm white" is therefore also sickly green. The uplight (H6058) is better - I actually really like that product. Hopefully the newer chips here fix that? Oh, also one of my power supplies died and I've no idea where to get a replacement. Can't find any spares or parts on their website 😥
Same experience with mine and cool white is purple, which is evident still in this video. 3 LED’s have now died just on their two year anniversary. Won’t be buying Govee agaib
great stuff as usual. Could you start showing the connectors and power supplies for stuff you review where possible? So many of LED strips for example have shite flimsy connectors. Im not suggesting a full unboxing but an overview of the hardware.
great presentation. I've seen this product demonstrated by another youtuber and there was no mention of required internet. That's a big concern to me as my mountain home has no over the air reception and the internet is DSL based so it tends to fail for hours if there are high winds or a storm. Thanks again for your diligent efforts and comedic style.
Thanks again for de great review Paul! Could you measure the power consumption when off? Individually addressable led strips have a very bad reputation for idle power consumption. That could be a dealbreaker here.
I am quite fond of my Govee TV Backlight (the one with the camera, but not the latest version) and am always hoping they will bring out something that will allow me to recreate the effect I had some years ago with a Philips Ambilight TV and some Hue light strips and bulbs, all nicely synchronized. I know this is sort of possible already, but last time I checked there were still some caveats. I won't be getting the "AI Sync box" version, because routing all my HDMI stuff through there would cause endless problems (HDMI 2.1 and all that...) so a camera based one with the ability to sync more Govee lights is what I cam aiming for.
Finding just govee normal bulbs is quite difficult idk if they just don't make them? But the "dreamview" setting in the govee app is what unifies all your govee lights with the camera and back light but there are only 'select' product that are compatible with it. i have a pretty big govee setup in my lounge with the dreamview thing set up and gaming on it on stuff like street fighter is so cool with a group of friends
i also do not route ANY HMDI though a sync box, the box mine comes with is just to power the strip and camera via the usb as i imagine for the same reason; i wanted the higher refresh rates at 4k
The thing that keeps me coming back to Phillips Hue is the Lutron Aurora. As a renter I can’t replace light switches and I don’t want to just cover them.
A few things to add. 1. Govee has had scenes on many devices that do a gentle wakeup that turn on from 0% to 100% over 30 min. If that doesn't fit your need for other devices my integration for Hubitat also does a fade over time for any device that supports the LAN API. 2. The Govee Lan API is available for the M1 Strip as well as many of the new devices that have been released over the last year or so. It is also completely local and removes the need for the cloud. 3. Last thing to point out is the integration community recently found ways to load scenes for Govee devices. It works fantastic. The best part is it works for built in scenes as well as the DIY scenes.
Why don't they put the controller to the side and add more lights? Because I'm slow to do most things I still haven't sorted my PC area fully but seems I'm still waiting for a fully addressable COB strip with decent density (plus some DIY lights are better than anything you can get from Govee, Philips etc) - just need to buy a controller and install WLED on it.
I have 2 Govee strips (H6141) that have sections where the blue LEDs have stopped working. First one, then several. I just checked and it's about half of the sections, at random. Red and Green work fine, so I have to stick to red/orange and yellow.
Just ordered the new govee M1 earlier today from £79.99 to £55.00 just checked again on Amazon UK 🇬🇧 they have gone up to full price again I was going to order another one going to wait for the second one when they go back to £55.00 fantastic video again bravo 👏
Does it matter, yes it does. LOL :) On a more serious note. Does Philips reduce the brightness of the LED strip to extend the lifespan of the LED's in comparison to other brands?
I've had phillips hue for like 5 years and I can confirm, it does just work! So many benefits to having a bridge over just wifi also the govee home assistant integration is basically non existent and youc can do everything you can with the app in home assistant for phillips hue.
The lack of local control without internet is probably a govee issue not matter. Even though you integrated it with home assistant the issue is likely int the govee led controller firmware. It can be a bug or it can be govee forcing users to be connected to their servers.
It is possible for a Wi-Fi matter device to be controlled over the local wi-fi network. He's just pointing out that that didn't work for him. There are a lot of factors that play into this, so it's unclear if it is a govee limitation or something about his wifi hardware configuration.
@@andersonimes1892 yes matter over Wi-Fi will work locally on a network, but he didn’t say he did that, he turned off his router and said he no longer had control. I presume he thought as long as a Matter Border router was still connected it would work.
Hey gents, to be clear I turned off the ISP's router, so my WiFi LAN was still up and working via the amplifi HD router. I am totally confused as to the point of matter, I figured HA would act as the border gateway, or even my google Nest hub max, but as soon as the Internet is down nothing responds. 🤷
Looks like what I've been looking for .... But when Amazon suggests payment plans - ouch! $60 for one strip! I think I'll stick with neopixels for now. Great video as always!
Thank you for the great video today. I'm from the US and woke up to your video as part of the start of my memorial day weekend. Based on this video my weekend should be great.
I only buy TPlink smart home products just because I do not want 10 different 3rd party apps. TPlink is one of the few manufacturers that covers almost all smarthome products i use and is owned by a reputable parent company that has been in the IT game for a long time. MATTER changes this completely. Even in its current state, being able to do on/off and schedules is a good start.
'Here in the future even the tin-foil hat brigade doesn't have to worry about privacy. Here in the future, there is no privacy.' I really thought that was where you were going with that one!
The only thing that is swaying me to the Hue is HomeKit. Glad ONE product from Govee has it now, but until at least their bulbs are compatible, I'm going Hue.
I love this (definitely need help waking in the mornings) but I'm having trouble figuring out where I'd install one not to mention everything has to go through W.A.R. first!
Reason I pick Philips hue over Govee is because hue has a better app, and also has switches so there’s no need to turn my phone on or speak an assistant to turn on the lights
I feel like there might be an oversight in this video. The strips look like they've got ICs on them, which normally means you can control every 3-4 LEDs, not everyone individually. It's not a massove deal, but it just means the rainbow is a little looser than if you did it with a true WS2812B strip and WLED. Can you confirm?
Hey Paul. I really enjoy your channel. But Philips Hue are still in business because they really are the best. I have bought many other brands and used you affiliate links but hue are a cut above everything. Just my experience.
How are these lights when highly dimmed. We have a Hue light strip under our bed as a motion activated nightlight. We find the sweet spot to be 7%. Can the Govees be reliably dimmed to very low light levels?
My biggest concern is security. Are you saying that is now not an issue? Ie giving access to your Wi-Fi network is something I would only do with companies I can fully trust
hmmm, i guess im an old sceptic … but have been directly involved in leading edge technology for the last 40 years … ive heard the “universal compatibility “ arguments and promises .. waaaay to many (failed) times… ive seen corporate greed, agendas and self serving objectives get in the way and motivate bad behaviours that muddies the water and drives bad behaviours… lets not even mention IP wars … i do hope that “matter” may make some headway.. but at the moment i believe the greatest beneficiaries are the industry commentators and you tubers that are generating mileage from it. i do hope that im proven truly wrong ! and my scepticism is misplaced …. time will tell. bust out the delorian in a few years I say! as always i love the channel and your perspectives.. great work.
What!?! Paul is talking positively about Matter! LMAO Matter is fully local so the basic commands (on/off, 1 solid color, brightness) should work without any internet connection. Anything beyond that will be specific to Govee and will not work through Matter. There is a provision in Matter to do vendor extension, which is allowing the OEM to add features and triggering them using the Matter messaging protocol but since those vendor extensions are not known by anyone else, there is no way to trigger them from any other Matter ecosystem UNLESS the OEM publishes the documentation of those extension and someone is adding them specifically to the ecosystem (Home Assistant, Alexa...).
I use Philips Hue for one very simple reason and one alone - it works with Apple HomeKit. HomeKit is soooo much better than Alexa or Goggle because it’s simple and isn’t clogged up with crap that people think they want but never use. I use an iPhone & an iPad because they’re the best at what they do. I have no fear of malware or infected apps. You can’t say that about any Android phone, even first party Goggle ones. Plus and this is a huge one, Apple support their older devices with software and security updates for years whereas Goggle and Samsung don’t after a couple of years. I’m still using my iPhone XR which I got from Apple by trading in my 6S on a special deal. It still works as well as the day I got it, appart from the battery only lasting about 16 hours now between charges - it’s still the OG battery.
Obviously I did - jumped around in the vid. Can’t blame me for assuming it didn’t support HomeKit when 99% of all smart light don’t cause they don’t want to pay Apple for the API access.
Hey Paul. I'm running Lifx strips which aren't fully individually addressable. What is this Lifx2 you mentioned? I can't find them. These Govee appear superior anyway...Thanks G.
Can you recommend any diffusers for the M1, I bought some from Amazon but you can see each individual LED shining through the diffuser. I wanted it to look more like one smooth light
00:34 do you know a colleague of mine? That's exactly the response I get. Oh, and more Rainbow please.... so funny what they got away with, same with likes of Going Live etc back in the day.
I had Govee light strips and for whatever reason, they stopped working with Google. Would always give me error messages, would hardly work when asked to turn off or on etc. Govee had no solution. Google had no solution. I replaced them with LE light strips and they work flawlessly. Sure, they are not individually addressable lights, but they work when I ask google to do stuff with them.
Amazing video as always Mr H, but I watched and I watched... No elephant. Does that LED strip have fire effect, because I think your pants have flames coming out of them?! I think it's dead from neglect. An elephant isn't just for YT, it's for life. On a more serious note, can you cut the strip to the length that you want? Obviously, not the end that the controller is attached to. That's the sort of silly mistake only an elephant would make.
Great video again mate! Quick question though….. can you link the strips like you can the LIFX ones? I spent £000’s on LIFX lighting throughout the house before their fall from grace and get brought out, despite the fact the new company has released more updates and new themes than I ever saw LIFX do. Now I have a 7m, 5m and a 3m strip just in my living room and they create a perfect rainbow! But it’s the fact I could link up to 10m of strip off a single supplied plug. Would these Govee be capable to do that? I have other Govee products around the house but I’m not their biggest fan. Some are awesome while others need so much manual input I’m gonna bin them! Lol
the govee ones come in strips up to 65 feet that can all be powered from a single plug socket if thats what you're talking about. i too was an avid fan of lifx, they were ahead of their game at one point with the effects and individual addressable shite. NOW though, all the bulbs have since blown, bits of the strip stopped working. moved over to govee completely. you just have to be wary which products you do choose coz as you've pointed out SOME require too much manual input for them to even be considered smart devices. The more modern ones though from last year to present is what you want. All of them are bright and vibrant, i have the tiles, wall bars, hexagons and a stand corner strip and they all work flawlessly
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Well timed vid, I’ve been looking at led strips recently! Have a great weekend!
WAIT a minute... where is the Paul Hibbert music ? I tune in JUST for the Paul Hibbert Music !! Where has the Corporate greed gone ?? CANCELLED....(Head blows up inserted here)... We need to change the Business model !!
man living in Aus sucks sometimes... lol
nill availability on amazon US, ridiculously expensive from UK (like $180 au delivered) and direct store doesnt sent to Aus :-(
Govee and Hue are the only two smart lighting I’d recommend. I never had an issue with hue. Govee I only had a few issues with but that was with their older stuff, now I believe Govee are the king in smart lighting
Not king until their entire line-up supports HomeKit.
hey you can also do the slow fade up over time in home assistant on the automation -> actions select Call service -> Light: Toggle or Light: Turn on -> slect transition and set the duration it takes to get to light leve you want
😳 I've been looking for this for ages!! There are forum discussions with people making code that doesn't work all o er the place, but not one entry that explains this! (or at least there weren't when I was looking).
Thanks so much for this man! I can't believe the home assistant crew have buried this option under services!!
@@paulhibbert lifx had a fade up schedule - ( as long as it stayed connected) but my normal bulbs do, only issue i eer really had was with the beam, the strips would fade up
Keep in mind that it only works as well as the device you are scaling up. My inovelli dimmers seem to increment about 3% at a time rather than smoothly with my halo lights.
I'm not sure if I should blame the switch, config, or bulb but it isn't the smoothest.
Regarding the whole 20 minute fade of the lights to wake up, google home can do that with any smart light. You just have to set a recurring alarm and in the menu there's an option to turn it on, called something like sunrise lights or something like that. I just know there's a slider to turn it on then you get to select which lights do it. Mine do it every morning and they're CYNC lights.
Here in my town, you can only purchase Philips Hue in our electronic stores. They don't have Govee or anything Else in stock. By the way, it's the same with Nanoleaf.
Thanks for your Video, I finally ordered my first two Govee Produkts, one of them the M1 Llghtstrip. And I'm just happy with These.
Seriously, £80 for a 2m light strip?
Build your own with an Athom Controller and WLED for probably half the price for a 5m strip. You NEED to take a look at WLED.
SUBSCRIBED!! Informative and funny content. Just bought some GOVEE string LED color lights for my yurt before I came across you video. Compatible with Alexa, includes light bulbs which can also individually be controlled using the app. Arriving tomorrow; can’t wait 😅 Switching to Govee team from Phillips Hue team!!
The "rising sun" thing can be done with just about any controller system. I've been doing it for years with a Sengled Zigbee bulb, and FHEM. I tell it when to turn on, and it starts the bulb at 1%, increasing 3 every minute for half an hour or so before I want to be up.
I really want to like Govee, but the strips I've got here (H6159 and H6143) have the worst yellows I've ever seen from an LED. It's basically lime green, and given they're RGBW, the "warm white" is therefore also sickly green. The uplight (H6058) is better - I actually really like that product. Hopefully the newer chips here fix that?
Oh, also one of my power supplies died and I've no idea where to get a replacement. Can't find any spares or parts on their website 😥
Same experience with mine and cool white is purple, which is evident still in this video. 3 LED’s have now died just on their two year anniversary.
Won’t be buying Govee agaib
great stuff as usual. Could you start showing the connectors and power supplies for stuff you review where possible? So many of LED strips for example have shite flimsy connectors. Im not suggesting a full unboxing but an overview of the hardware.
great presentation. I've seen this product demonstrated by another youtuber and there was no mention of required internet. That's a big concern to me as my mountain home has no over the air reception and the internet is DSL based so it tends to fail for hours if there are high winds or a storm. Thanks again for your diligent efforts and comedic style.
An esp, 2 minutes of soldering, a quick flash of the microcontroller with my phone and I'm good to go with Wled.
Cheapest and best way to do LEDs.
I keep mentioning WLED in the comments but he seems to be ignoring it. And if you want to avoid the soldering just get an Athom instead.
@@gordon861 or a digiuno or quad lol
Have you seen how difficult Paul makes fitting a door handle look? And you still want to trust him with a soldering iron?
Thanks again for de great review Paul! Could you measure the power consumption when off? Individually addressable led strips have a very bad reputation for idle power consumption. That could be a dealbreaker here.
Yeah, good question, someone please respond?
Was watching this before bed, now I'm laughing hysterically. Paul's way too funny 😂
Picked up one of these based on the review. Thanks!
I do like the outros :)
I saw Lewis started to use them, and it's awesome
I am quite fond of my Govee TV Backlight (the one with the camera, but not the latest version) and am always hoping they will bring out something that will allow me to recreate the effect I had some years ago with a Philips Ambilight TV and some Hue light strips and bulbs, all nicely synchronized.
I know this is sort of possible already, but last time I checked there were still some caveats. I won't be getting the "AI Sync box" version, because routing all my HDMI stuff through there would cause endless problems (HDMI 2.1 and all that...) so a camera based one with the ability to sync more Govee lights is what I cam aiming for.
Finding just govee normal bulbs is quite difficult idk if they just don't make them? But the "dreamview" setting in the govee app is what unifies all your govee lights with the camera and back light but there are only 'select' product that are compatible with it. i have a pretty big govee setup in my lounge with the dreamview thing set up and gaming on it on stuff like street fighter is so cool with a group of friends
i also do not route ANY HMDI though a sync box, the box mine comes with is just to power the strip and camera via the usb as i imagine for the same reason; i wanted the higher refresh rates at 4k
Green screen quality is up to par with Dr. Disrespect! I love it!
The thing that keeps me coming back to Phillips Hue is the Lutron Aurora. As a renter I can’t replace light switches and I don’t want to just cover them.
Oh my, I'm getting old when I remember Rainbow and Sooty and Sweep.
A few things to add.
1. Govee has had scenes on many devices that do a gentle wakeup that turn on from 0% to 100% over 30 min. If that doesn't fit your need for other devices my integration for Hubitat also does a fade over time for any device that supports the LAN API.
2. The Govee Lan API is available for the M1 Strip as well as many of the new devices that have been released over the last year or so. It is also completely local and removes the need for the cloud.
3. Last thing to point out is the integration community recently found ways to load scenes for Govee devices. It works fantastic. The best part is it works for built in scenes as well as the DIY scenes.
Fantastic review by the way.
Why don't they put the controller to the side and add more lights?
Because I'm slow to do most things I still haven't sorted my PC area fully but seems I'm still waiting for a fully addressable COB strip with decent density (plus some DIY lights are better than anything you can get from Govee, Philips etc) - just need to buy a controller and install WLED on it.
I have 2 Govee strips (H6141) that have sections where the blue LEDs have stopped working. First one, then several. I just checked and it's about half of the sections, at random. Red and Green work fine, so I have to stick to red/orange and yellow.
This has happened to me also! I wonder if they've fixed that issue with the updated versions.
@@Jassiepoohbear I'd hope so.
Leave me and my 1 person dance parties alone.
XD
Any idea when they will be releasing a 5M version, as my entrance way says size matters, Sorry been watching too many of your reviews.
I'd forgotten about that episode of Rainbow. Thanks for reminding me.
Just ordered the new govee M1 earlier today from £79.99 to £55.00 just checked again on Amazon UK 🇬🇧 they have gone up to full price again I was going to order another one going to wait for the second one when they go back to £55.00 fantastic video again bravo 👏
Looks great but I stick with Philips Hue obvious that is better lol
Does it matter, yes it does. LOL :) On a more serious note. Does Philips reduce the brightness of the LED strip to extend the lifespan of the LED's in comparison to other brands?
Cloudless? Great! So far nobody has shown me operation with their router unplugged from the Internet though. Ahh, you can't get it to work either.
I've had phillips hue for like 5 years and I can confirm, it does just work! So many benefits to having a bridge over just wifi also the govee home assistant integration is basically non existent and youc can do everything you can with the app in home assistant for phillips hue.
haha STILL the BEST home automation / smart home channel on YT.
The lack of local control without internet is probably a govee issue not matter.
Even though you integrated it with home assistant the issue is likely int the govee led controller firmware.
It can be a bug or it can be govee forcing users to be connected to their servers.
For those disco people, Govee also sells Music Sync Boxes. I got mine for free from them, and it is awesome!
I so look forward to Saturday because IT JUST WORKS!!!!! Have a great day mate...
Loved the Rainbow show references! hahaha what a great throwback, keep em coming mate
I remember watching that Rainbow episode as a grown up. I had to scrub myself in the shower afterwards 😂
Can someone count how many times Paul say "App" in this video 😂
Philips Hue all the way 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
The Govee Strip is Matter over Wi-Fi so it works with matter but only over Wi-Fi. Matter over Thread is where it’s all local. Hope
This helps
It is possible for a Wi-Fi matter device to be controlled over the local wi-fi network. He's just pointing out that that didn't work for him. There are a lot of factors that play into this, so it's unclear if it is a govee limitation or something about his wifi hardware configuration.
@@andersonimes1892 yes matter over Wi-Fi will work locally on a network, but he didn’t say he did that, he turned off his router and said he no longer had control. I presume he thought as long as a Matter Border router was still connected it would work.
Ah I assumed Paul knew how LANs work, but maybe not a safe assumption!
@@TechUpChannel Oh he does ?
I thought he kept it on but unplugged the internet in cable
Hey gents, to be clear I turned off the ISP's router, so my WiFi LAN was still up and working via the amplifi HD router.
I am totally confused as to the point of matter, I figured HA would act as the border gateway, or even my google Nest hub max, but as soon as the Internet is down nothing responds. 🤷
Looks like what I've been looking for .... But when Amazon suggests payment plans - ouch! $60 for one strip!
I think I'll stick with neopixels for now.
Great video as always!
That's the info I was looking for lol, I'll stick to DIY Arduino stuff haha.
Yeah that price really hit me hard. Even tplink had to bring down the cost of their strips to compete.
I raced to amazon to make another purchase recommended by the best youtube content provider! thank you
Thank you for the great video today. I'm from the US and woke up to your video as part of the start of my memorial day weekend. Based on this video my weekend should be great.
this is great but price is crazy
I only buy TPlink smart home products just because I do not want 10 different 3rd party apps. TPlink is one of the few manufacturers that covers almost all smarthome products i use and is owned by a reputable parent company that has been in the IT game for a long time.
MATTER changes this completely. Even in its current state, being able to do on/off and schedules is a good start.
Lifx just dropped a neon flex light. Trying to find a review of it. You should do one.
'Here in the future even the tin-foil hat brigade doesn't have to worry about privacy. Here in the future, there is no privacy.' I really thought that was where you were going with that one!
Is it weatherproof for exterior use?
Man, 2 videos in one week! You've convinced me to put a strip under my bed lol
Paul at your best. No bloody master bate jokes. 👍
The only thing that is swaying me to the Hue is HomeKit. Glad ONE product from Govee has it now, but until at least their bulbs are compatible, I'm going Hue.
Hey Paul, find me an low-voltage waterproof smart garden spotlight system. Hue is the only one!
If you have any led bulbs and led strips in smartthings it now also slowly increase brightness and color Temperature
I love this (definitely need help waking in the mornings) but I'm having trouble figuring out where I'd install one not to mention everything has to go through W.A.R. first!
I'll stay in the Stone Age for a bit and wait some more. These things constantly get cheaper and better every time I turn around.
There are people with this mindset who are still holding off on buying a PC.
@@hi-ccowboy7983
Lol, there's still people with that mindset, using abacuses for maths and still writing on papyrus reeds. 😂
Reason I pick Philips hue over Govee is because hue has a better app, and also has switches so there’s no need to turn my phone on or speak an assistant to turn on the lights
I feel like there might be an oversight in this video. The strips look like they've got ICs on them, which normally means you can control every 3-4 LEDs, not everyone individually.
It's not a massove deal, but it just means the rainbow is a little looser than if you did it with a true WS2812B strip and WLED.
Can you confirm?
This video is so f***ing brilliant, my sense of humor 😀😀😀😀😀. Matter on Alexa you will a least one echo gen. 4 or 5 for it to work
Thanks for that. Looks good but it seems expensive for 2m of strip.
Yea. It costs $138 for 2m in my country. Way too expensive
Hey Paul. I really enjoy your channel. But Philips Hue are still in business because they really are the best. I have bought many other brands and used you affiliate links but hue are a cut above everything. Just my experience.
They just werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk
Love it, just talking about your yt vid. Funny as Farouk!! 🤣
Hey I was not baited in by the master. I just love my Govee products
How are these lights when highly dimmed. We have a Hue light strip under our bed as a motion activated nightlight. We find the sweet spot to be 7%. Can the Govees be reliably dimmed to very low light levels?
My biggest concern is security. Are you saying that is now not an issue? Ie giving access to your Wi-Fi network is something I would only do with companies I can fully trust
Okay, but what do you do with all those Philip Hue light switches you have?
can you do video on trying. to setup m1 matter light strip by govve in home assiant
1:25 Amazon music playing Youth by Daughter, nice song
hmmm, i guess im an old sceptic … but have been directly involved in leading edge technology for the last 40 years … ive heard the “universal compatibility “ arguments and promises .. waaaay to many (failed) times…
ive seen corporate greed, agendas and self serving objectives get in the way and motivate bad behaviours that muddies the water and drives bad behaviours… lets not even mention IP wars …
i do hope that “matter” may make some headway.. but at the moment i believe the greatest beneficiaries are the industry commentators and you tubers that are generating mileage from it.
i do hope that im proven truly wrong ! and my scepticism is misplaced …. time will tell.
bust out the delorian in a few years I say!
as always i love the channel and your perspectives.. great work.
3:47 - more tea spurted! 🤣🤣🤣
What!?! Paul is talking positively about Matter! LMAO
Matter is fully local so the basic commands (on/off, 1 solid color, brightness) should work without any internet connection. Anything beyond that will be specific to Govee and will not work through Matter. There is a provision in Matter to do vendor extension, which is allowing the OEM to add features and triggering them using the Matter messaging protocol but since those vendor extensions are not known by anyone else, there is no way to trigger them from any other Matter ecosystem UNLESS the OEM publishes the documentation of those extension and someone is adding them specifically to the ecosystem (Home Assistant, Alexa...).
I use Philips Hue for one very simple reason and one alone - it works with Apple HomeKit. HomeKit is soooo much better than Alexa or Goggle because it’s simple and isn’t clogged up with crap that people think they want but never use. I use an iPhone & an iPad because they’re the best at what they do. I have no fear of malware or infected apps. You can’t say that about any Android phone, even first party Goggle ones. Plus and this is a huge one, Apple support their older devices with software and security updates for years whereas Goggle and Samsung don’t after a couple of years. I’m still using my iPhone XR which I got from Apple by trading in my 6S on a special deal. It still works as well as the day I got it, appart from the battery only lasting about 16 hours now between charges - it’s still the OG battery.
Did you miss the bit where I said this LED strip works with apple homekit? 😳
Obviously I did - jumped around in the vid. Can’t blame me for assuming it didn’t support HomeKit when 99% of all smart light don’t cause they don’t want to pay Apple for the API access.
@@MIK33EY aha! An avid house of pain fan! I too sometimes enjoy a good jump around.
Hey Paul what are the white colour temperatures and brightness like? And does it do adaptive lighting? Now that Govee supports HomeKit I’m interested.
I second this.
Hey Paul. I'm running Lifx strips which aren't fully individually addressable. What is this Lifx2 you mentioned? I can't find them. These Govee appear superior anyway...Thanks G.
Have they addresses the issue of others in the house that might need access?
So if I wanted to wrap this around the bed I would need 3 of these with 3 power sources or do they chain together with just one power source?
Nice. Thanks for another great, entertaining, and informative video. Now if these could be used outdoors and expanded to create long strings…
Thanks Paul. Happy Monday! 😁🖖🏻
Good band that Ron!
brother you made my day 😂 happy saturday
Great video and a cool bit of kit, but how much?!?!?! It's just one strip, right?...and doesn't come with anything else?!?! 😮💰💰💰💰
I can see Paul thowing his Phillips Hue stuff out a window like a mad girlfriend throwing all your clothes off a third floor balcony. 🤣
Can you cut these at a certain point to join more together?n Using only one plug?
The gradually wake up late alarm Google also has it to built into the alarm settings
I will be getting on in a couple of weeks
Hi Paul can the strip fade down at a set time as well as up if so it will be great in my bird aviary
Good review❗
Keep the jokes comin' without which it would be stuffy albeit thoroughly nformative.
IT JUST WHEEEERKS
Can you recommend any diffusers for the M1, I bought some from Amazon but you can see each individual LED shining through the diffuser. I wanted it to look more like one smooth light
Chris Maher does in-depth RUclips videos on this very subject. The U108 muzatta channels are the best for spotless diffusion
This guy does my head in !
Stick around, you'll change your mind.
With Matter, can you use the scenes and other features from Alexa or do you still need the app?
Also shame that you can only have two strips that can be attached. Not enough to go around my 18m ceiling. 😔
00:34 do you know a colleague of mine? That's exactly the response I get. Oh, and more Rainbow please.... so funny what they got away with, same with likes of Going Live etc back in the day.
It wasn't real, it was a joke for a Thames TV Xmas party tape 🤦
@@stepheng8779
Thats right Geoffrey.. 😂
I had Govee light strips and for whatever reason, they stopped working with Google. Would always give me error messages, would hardly work when asked to turn off or on etc. Govee had no solution. Google had no solution. I replaced them with LE light strips and they work flawlessly. Sure, they are not individually addressable lights, but they work when I ask google to do stuff with them.
Here in the future we use ws2811 with Wled at less than half that price 😅
wondering what power adapter options it has?
i'm AU 240v, want one but not sure if i'll be able to adapt to the power supply?
Amazing video as always Mr H, but I watched and I watched... No elephant. Does that LED strip have fire effect, because I think your pants have flames coming out of them?! I think it's dead from neglect. An elephant isn't just for YT, it's for life.
On a more serious note, can you cut the strip to the length that you want? Obviously, not the end that the controller is attached to. That's the sort of silly mistake only an elephant would make.
Taking away the internet conncetion took away control of the Matter hubs.... That would be my guess.
Great video again mate! Quick question though….. can you link the strips like you can the LIFX ones? I spent £000’s on LIFX lighting throughout the house before their fall from grace and get brought out, despite the fact the new company has released more updates and new themes than I ever saw LIFX do. Now I have a 7m, 5m and a 3m strip just in my living room and they create a perfect rainbow! But it’s the fact I could link up to 10m of strip off a single supplied plug. Would these Govee be capable to do that? I have other Govee products around the house but I’m not their biggest fan. Some are awesome while others need so much manual input I’m gonna bin them! Lol
the govee ones come in strips up to 65 feet that can all be powered from a single plug socket if thats what you're talking about. i too was an avid fan of lifx, they were ahead of their game at one point with the effects and individual addressable shite. NOW though, all the bulbs have since blown, bits of the strip stopped working. moved over to govee completely. you just have to be wary which products you do choose coz as you've pointed out SOME require too much manual input for them to even be considered smart devices. The more modern ones though from last year to present is what you want. All of them are bright and vibrant, i have the tiles, wall bars, hexagons and a stand corner strip and they all work flawlessly
So, if you installed these on all your walls you could have helpful lights to guide guests to any room in the house 🤔
Paul, not being in the UK for the last 18 years, where did you get the "it just works" saying from..... great vid as always..
That my friend is a Paul Hibbert original 😂
I noticed that Philips Hue users tend to say it in defence of the price tag a lot. 😉
@@paulhibbert lmao... I thought the first time I heard it, thought you was mimicking the 5 minute PM... Philips🤮
My lifx and nano leaf stuff works with google home and apple home kit I feel matter won’t change anything for me
How does this compare to the sonoff light strip. In South Africa we battle getting some brands. any advice