#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH HOW TO#
#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH INSTALL#
#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH PATCH#
#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH PRO#
#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH VERIFICATION#

Stick the camera to the top of your screen, in the center, using the tear-off sticky strips, then attach the USB cable to the control box. You can go with whichever configuration suits your setup or is most aesthetically pleasing. I've tried overhead and underneath the screen, and it makes little difference to the camera picking up on-screen color changes. You must now decide where you want to position the ColorSense camera.

#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH PRO#

Connect the Govee Flow Pro Light Bars and Camera to the Control Box Once they click into place, they won't budge unless you attempt to remove them specifically. The screen mount stands attach to the back of the light bar with a handy secure notch. With the desktop stand, you slot the cable end into the stand, allowing the cable to escape at the bottom.

#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH PATCH#

Whereas, the screen mounts come with a self-adhesive patch ready to stick to your TV or monitor.Īttaching the light bar to the stand is easy in both cases. The desktop mounts are weighted and freestanding, so you can move them around to adjust the lights' position. If you have any questions I’ll try my best to respond.Once you decide on where you want your Govee Flow Pro Light Bars, it's time to reach for the mounts. You can rename your device and set up routines from within the Alexa app. The payload message from the “chair” device is already either on or off depending on your command to Alexa so just pipe that into a node-red mqtt-out network node that send messages over “govee/power” and you are all set.

#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH INSTALL#

I will say that for my specific case where I have my Alexa devices on a separate IOT vlan, I had to put one of the alexa devices on the same vlan as my node-red install in order to discover the device (which I called chair in the image below) and then put it back on the IOT network.

#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH HOW TO#

There are many posts and tutorials on how to set this up so I won’t go into details. The Alexa plugin for Node-RED I use is node-red-contrib-amazon-echo ( node-red-contrib-amazon-echo (node) - Node-RED).

'on' : ,Īt this point you can test that your mqtt messages can control you govee light by sending an “off” or “on” message payload to the topic “govee/power”Įverything else from now on is setting up Node-RED to send Mqtt commands and install the Alexa plugin. # topic payload value program & arguments Mqtt_transport_type = 'tcp' # alternative: 'websocket', default: 'tcp'

#GOVEE WIFI VS BLUETOOTH VERIFICATION#

Mqtt_tls_verify = None # Configure verification of the server hostname in the server certificate, None means to not vorifying Hostname and should not be used in production If using TLS, this must be set to the domain name signed by your TLS certificate. Mqtt_broker = 'CHANGEME' # default: 'localhost'. You can create a service to run mqtt-launcher.py in the background or run “nohup /path/to/mqtt-launcher.py &” nf - Make sure to change the Mosquitto login info and PATHS as well. Once you have mqtt-launcher setup and working. WorkingDirectory=/home/CHANGEME/Documents/bluetooth Sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/rviceĪnd copy paste in the following ( BE SURE TO CHANGE THE PATHS TO THE SCRIPTS): Īfter=rvice network.target syslog.targetĮxecStart=/home/CHANGEME/Documents/bluetooth/keepalive.sh This will start the keepalive.sh automatically. There are other commands you can send to do other stuff as well like change color and brightness etc but for me all I wanted to do was to turn it off and on via Alexa. You can run the script keepalive.sh then run the script writelightsoff.sh to turn off the light and writelightson.sh to turn on the light. Lights.txt - Should be empty, don’t forget to make it readable and writable.Īt this point you can test if it’s working for you.

Writelightson.sh - Be sure to change the path to point to your appropriate directory. Writelightsoff.sh - Be sure to change the path to point to your appropriate directory. # device connected, keep alive and wait for on off command Keepalive.sh - Change XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX to the Mac Address of your govee lights. Except the text file which should be readable and writable. On your device of choice you will want to create a directory in your home dictortory to store the control scripts.Ĭreate the following files and chmod them to be executable. A Raspberry Pi will work or in my case I had an Intel Compute Stick STCK1A8LFC laying around doing nothing and I installed xubuntu on it.

A cheap device capable of connecting to bluetooth low energy devices to use as a dedicated hub.

Mqtt-launcher ( GitHub - jpmens/mqtt-launcher: Execute shell commands triggered by published MQTT messages) installed on the hub device you choose.

Govee wifi vs bluetooth