Do you want to connect the Govee and Phillips Hue devices together? If yes then you are at the right place.
Govee and Hue are both brands that specialize in smart home devices, particularly in the realm of smart lighting and related home automation products.
Govee is a brand that offers a range of smart home products, including LED lighting strips, light bulbs, temperature and humidity monitors, smart plugs, and various sensors.
Their products are designed to be controlled and managed through smartphone apps or smart home ecosystems like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
Govee focuses on providing affordable smart home solutions that offer features such as remote control, customizable lighting effects, voice control, and integration with other smart home devices.
Hue by Philips is a smart lighting system developed by Philips, offering a wide array of smart LED light bulbs, fixtures, and accessories.
Philips Hue products are known for their high quality, vibrant colors, and extensive integration capabilities.
The Hue system allows users to control their lights wirelessly using a bridge connected to their home network.
Users can adjust brightness, color temperature, and color settings through the Hue app or via voice commands using assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple HomeKit.
Philips Hue also supports various features like routines, schedules, and geofencing, allowing users to create personalized lighting experiences and automate their lighting based on different scenarios or preferences.
How To Integrate Govee With Phillips Hue?
The Govee and Hue devices aren’t designed to work directly with each other’s dedicated apps.
They cannot synchronize or control each other through their native applications.
The reason behind the lack of direct compatibility between Govee and Hue apps lies in their different proprietary systems and protocols
However, both Govee and Hue devices can be integrated and managed through third party apps like Alexa, Google Home, and IFTTT.
Google Home: The Google Home app, created by Google, is designed to manage a vast range of compatible smart lights, including devices from Govee and Hue. However, it’s worth noting that specific models, such as the Govee H6001, might not be compatible with this app.
In addition to controlling lights, Google Home enables users to create customized scenes and routines. Furthermore, it offers the convenience of checking reminders and recent notifications—all from a unified and easy-to-use application interface.
While most Govee and Hue devices are supported by the Google Home app, it’s advisable to confirm compatibility for specific models, to ensure seamless integration and control within the app.
To integrate Govee devices with the Google Home app and Hue devices with the Hue Bridge, follow these steps:
For Govee devices:
Open the Google Home app on your phone.
Click on “Add Devices.”
Choose the specific Govee device you have.
Proceed to set up the device as per the instructions provided.
Agree that Govee can work with Google Home.
Allow Govee to share information with Google Home.
For Hue devices with the Hue Bridge:
Set up the Hue Bridge using the Hue app.
Once the Hue Bridge is set up with your Hue app, proceed to the Google Home app.
Follow the same six steps mentioned earlier for Govee devices but instead select “Philip Hues” (Hue devices) during the setup process.
These steps should help you connect your Govee devices with the Google Home app and your Hue devices through the Hue Bridge, allowing for convenient control and management of smart devices using Google Home.
Amazon Alexa: By integrating Govee and Hue lights with Alexa, users gain access to advanced functionalities, including the ability to create lighting routines.
These routines offer a range of options such as setting schedules, basing routines on location, and coordinating light behavior based on the activities of other smart devices like door locks, smart doorbells, or security cameras.
The Alexa app is available for download on both the Apple Store and Google Play, providing users with a convenient interface to control and manage their smart home devices, including Govee and Hue lights, with a wide array of customizable features and integrations.
Follow the steps below to connect Govee and Hue with Alexa:
First make sure that the Govee or Hue product is already set up and working correctly using their respective app
Open the Alexa app and enable the Govee or Hue skill.
Skills are essentially voice driven capabilities for Alexa. You will find the skill in the Alexa app’s skills section.
Select “Devices” within the Alexa app and tap on the plus (+) sign to add another device.
Choose “Discover new devices” to allow Alexa to search for and detect your Govee or Hue devices that are ready for pairing.
Once Alexa discovers the devices, select the specific device you want to add.
After your Govee or Hue devices are successfully added to Alexa, you can organize them into groups.
This grouping feature allows you to control multiple devices simultaneously.
Using groups, you can combine various smart devices, including lights, plugs, switches, etc., to perform actions collectively with a single command.
For instance, you could create a “Living Room” group that includes Govee and Hue lights, and then turn them on or off together using Alexa commands.
By following these steps and organizing your devices into groups within the Alexa app, you can efficiently control and manage your Govee or Hue devices along with other smart devices using Alexa’s intuitive voice commands and routines.
IFTTT:
IFTTT (If This Then That) is a widely used third party app in the smart home industry, allowing users to automate their various home devices by connecting different brands, including Hue and Govee, to this platform.
If you wish to control both your Govee and Hue lights through a single app instead of managing them separately, IFTTT offers a solution. You can achieve this by creating “Applets” within IFTTT.
An Applet essentially connects two or more apps or devices, enabling an automation or integration between these services that individually might not have been possible.
For example, using IFTTT, you can create an Applet that triggers actions between your Govee and Hue lights.
This Applet might turn on your Hue lights when your Govee lights are activated or vice versa, creating synchronized actions between these different brands of smart lights.
By leveraging IFTTT’s Applets, you can seamlessly integrate and control your Govee and Hue lights through a unified platform, streamlining the management of your smart home devices and enabling interactions that were previously not directly possible between these two brands’ apps or devices
These third party apps act as a bridge, allowing users to control and coordinate both Govee and Hue devices within the same ecosystem.
These are some third party apps you can use to integrate Govee with Phillips Hue.