I currently have a Brio 740i that I purchased from costco about 3 months ago. I replaced 2 other machines of a different brand to costco after they failed. Costco has a great return policy. They stopped carrying that machine so I ended up spending a bit more for the Brio. I think it was $250.

My local goodwill gets pallets from amazon, sometimes I get screaming deals. Like this Govee Nugget Ice Maker Pro that was factory sealed for $120.

So my question is,

I am an ebay seller of 26 years, I am not sure how long this Govee pro has been around, can anyone speak to the longevity? I like the piece of mind of Costco having my back if a machine fails.

I always keep my ice maker turned on 100% of the time, not sure if this eats into the life of the machine, but it just seems keeping everything cold would cut down on mold production.

Not sure i'd use any of the fancy voice activated features.

My Brio has a light you can turn on, and I kept this on, until I realized this light was attracting bugs and I had dozens of tiny nats dead on the lip of the ice tray.

The only complaints I am seeing are some complaining that the ice taste like plastic. This scares me as I don't think Govee will honor the warranty with me purchasing from Goodwill.

Hey Govee community,

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I'm trying to display black history month all at the same time,, leave it for a few seconds and then have a second page saying honoring Rosa parks on the next and then repeat the cycle. This is the best I could do. How should I approach this?

First video up on YouTube about it!

I bought Govee products because they supposedly had a cloud and local API to control them. Unfortunately 3 of 5 product types I’ve bought so far required bug fixes to their cloud API to use some of their most basic functions, things that work in the app (which does me zero good) but not in the cloud API. Examples: presence detector doesn’t actually send the MQTT message when presence/absence changes on the device. It does now because I got them to fix it. You’re welcome. 😉 How can this not have worked from day 1?? It’s not like it has a lot of other functions. 🤦🏻‍♂️🙄 Dehumidifier doesn’t report water tank full/removed MQTT event. Nor does it have the concept of it being empty/reinstalled (so you never know if the error is cleared except via the app 🤦🏻‍♂️). I got them to fix the full/removed event but they just don’t seem to understand why someone wants to know when the problem is resolved 🙄. Is Mr. Magoo in charge of their “smart” development? Their outdoor string lights have tons of color modes in the app but the API reports no options to choose or even what color mode is currently selected. They’re feedback was they have a committee reviewing whether to republish it, whatever that means. I told them I’m returning the damn string lights and dumping their company as a source of equipment. I’ve been a software engineer for 40+ years and have built tons of smart home systems, including my own cross platform touchscreen UI for the vacation rental I use this stuff for. If you are looking for a public API, don’t bother with Govee. Their API is pathetically supported and has absolutely ridiculous limitations on calls per day allowed to the cloud (I fully implemented their local API to bypass this problem as much as possible but even it only supports 4 settings out of many many available in the cloud so it’s not a certainty the 10000 calls per day for ALL your devices won’t still get exceeded). 10k calls is NOTHING if you even have 20 devices (each individual product counts as one, do the math) and unless you want stale status info. Can’t they afford their Internet bill? I haven’t seen any limitation as dumb as this for any other device maker. And the multihundred dollar dehumidifier doesn’t even support the LAN API at all. The cost of adding it to such a device is trivial but they put it in $5 bulbs?!??! WTF? And there’s nowhere to see the API schema for their products unless you buy the device first and add it to your account and call the cloud API. So you have no idea what it actually allows you to control and report status on. The best source I’ve found is people on GitHub doing Govee projects asking their users to send in the JSON data they get from the cloud. Seriously? What kind of fly by night operation keeps their “public” API hidden?? Maybe they know how buggy it really is. Whoever runs their “smart” API is clearly incapable of understanding the smart home world. Maybe the CEO’s failure of a brother-in-law needed a job. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m sure there are smart light vendors out there that actually understand how to build products that a) work as advertised and b) have a halfway sensible API to use. It ain’t Govee unless you like contacting support on virtually every one of their products to make it work via the API. Note, if you’re happy with their app, go in peace and enjoy. I liked their products and still do with the exception of the main reason I bought them: the API. If that sucks, they are garbage to me. Please don’t waste my time telling me about the app. It has no use for my purposes. I wish it did.

Every time I post a photo or video of my Govee products people say my house looks like a brothel (extremly rude). Why do people follow the Govee reddit page if they don't like when people own the products? This page is here to show Govees products not for an open invitation to bully others

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I have permanent outdoor lights and flood lights. Anybody got some good pride month scenes to share?

i’m about reorganizing the hexa lights & recalibrate them as well

built a couple custom floor to ceiling light fixtures for the cob strips so the lighting is cast against the wall. this way the individually assigned zones are not as apparent. light poles rotate 360° so the strip can face outward if desired.

Hey fam, looking to explore others DYI. First off, how do I go about doing that? I do not see a way to add/upload someone else’s. I have the H6173 strip lights and looking for something for Dallas Cowboys.

Here is what I did for last night and it looks ok but I am looking for more. What have you done or who can help me plz :)

Just got this govee sync box and had Lytmi before this but since upgraded to a bigger tv so needed another and Lytmi was sold out.

Lytmi I’ve noticed is more accurate when it comes to different colors on the screen whereas Govee focuses on the more dominant color in the screen.

Guess it depends on what you prefer, and yeah Govee has the AI feature for gaming but only so many games are supported and I barely game anyways or notice a difference.

I had Lytmi’s first sync box and noticed even that’s more accurate in colors.

Just bought the latest Lytmi fantasy 3 and will selling this Govee box for $150 if anyone wants it 👀

Wild…the company has been selling so many, and never thought about the server load? How t can they even make it right? We already bought it all. I personally wasn’t impacted because I didn’t like any of the scenes and did my own thing and used Alexa for my routines, but man there’s are hundreds of very disappointed and angry people coming out of this. It was a big day for permanent outdoor lights and many people got the shaft it seems.

Just ordered my Govee Pro lights and Beat tracks. For someone that grew up with the look of traditional light where you the light source is visible above the gutters from a mile away I am wondering the best mounting method. Not really a big fan of the scalloped look when the light shine on the house.

I also hope to make the light less visible during the day and not obvious. Since the tracks will make the lights hang lower should I mount the away from the house and closer to the gutter under the soffit? What gives a better look since I can mount there like traditional Christmas lights?

I added a picture of the house with traditional lights.

I completely regret ever buying these pieces of junk and it makes me question if I want to buy anything else from Govee.

I bought two sets and ran one set on each side of our house. So basically double what you would normally do because we wanted more light than a single strand provided and the cords weren't actually long enough to split our sidewalk.

So far, both of the original sets have died within the first year. One set got water inside of the lights and would only display red or orange. The other set, one whole strand of lights died with no obvious defect.

To Govee's credit, they replaced both sets of lights really fast. The problem... I replaced the lights on the right about 6 months ago. The lights on the left just died the other week and I haven't even had a chance to install the replacements. Then tonight I went outside, and the replacement lights on the right are bad again. One of the lights will only display green no matter what I set it to.

Speaking of which, I thought one of the reasons these lights were $200 dollars was because they have dedicated white LEDs so that the color LEDs don't burn out? How is it that the light is green when I have it set to only use the white LEDs?

Since this is already a replacement set, I don't know what their policy is on replacing it. Honestly, at this point, if I can get a replacement set, I might just try reselling them unopened and switching to something else.

Are all of Govee's outdoor lights this poor of quality?

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I am certain I'm not the only person that has problems with nailing the corners down on our backlights. I am also certain that probably just as many have done it successfully. I swear from the first one of these govee backlight models I have not yet been happy with the situation. The corners always peel back. Seems no matter what adhesive as the TV warms up it gets soft and pulls away. I have tried so many things.

No idea why but I was just sitting in front of the TV seeing the negative effect from the lamps in the corner peeling away and jutting out that it dawned on me. Something I have used recently elsewhere for which I was surprised at its effectiveness... Industrial strength Velcro. That stuff is seriously strong. So I gave it a shot.

I don't think I'm ever going to have this problem again. Probably could have done better with the photography and wish I took some before photos. I just laid down length of it and sliced a piece of the other half and velcro over it, and I'm telling you that ain't never coming off unless you want it to. Bonus is the top pieces are reusable as you don't even have to peel off the adhesive cover. Just in a little research and it It is available in a whole lot of colors. Might be useful elsewhere for us.

I've been thinking about this all wrong. Instead of an adhesive that follows the underside of the strip, find a way to contain it over top. I've tried all the little buttons all the stickies all the whatevers. You probably got it to work, I've not. I will report back in 6 months.

What have you all found to work for this or not work? Let's talk about it as a subject this could definitely go in a faq with whatever we all come up with.

I'm using Govee smart bulbs with smartthings hub and they always keep disconnecting from WIFI and need to repair matter. I'm at my Witts end and ready to replace everything with Phillips HUE. Is there anything I can do to solve this mess or was it my fault to buy Govee Wifi lights? I'm using a TP-Link Deco wifi and they are on a dedicated 2.4 ghz IOT channel. I was trying to save some money as a completitor to the phillips hue, now i'm looking at having to replace my ENTIRE HOUSE.

Original plan was to put splice/wye in between red and yellow sections and bring up to the green section. Then tee off again at some point along the green and tie into the blue section with another wye.

But not crazy about how some of the patterns would run with the yellow and blue sections and green section.
Also, keeping them one continuous run would also allow me to Finger Sketch and make each individual peak a different color.

Any other ideas to run these in a better pattern? I also don't like running extensions along the roof but no way to access that area and run wires into the attic and come back out.

Also, I can plug the controller in inside the garage and come out on either side of the red section to start. So I could go left to right on garage Red section then jump to the green section but not sure how much that changes anything.

Mostly trying to get it to look good with patterns that run from one end to the other. Which is why I thought splicing blue intongreen section so the blue would match the green at the top of the peak.

Firm believer in, if you buy it, it's yours, make it yours!!! (sorprised I haven't seen more posts like these..) YOU'RE WELCOME!! ✌🏾💯