Govee Lights & Google Home (What You Need To Know?)

Govee products like smart light strips & bulbs are well known on the market and they provide a variety of features to increase comfort inside your home such as reducing energy consumption, remote control from its mobile app, timer, scheduling and group control, ability to adjust the brightness level, and more.

But folks are wondering if it works with Google Home in order to manage their Govee lighting products via voice commands.

Yes, all Govee lights strips are compatible with Google Home and the same thing for the bulbs except the H6001 model, with this combination you can take control of your lights through your voice using Google Assistant, create scenes & routines and integrate them with the rest of your smart home devices.

How to connect Govee lights to Google Home?

Govee relies on Wifi as its own communication protocol so it talks directly to your smartphone and you don’t need an additional hub to connect it to the Google Home app.

The Govee product you want to pair with Google Home needs to be set up on the Govee app first, and here’s how to do it:

1. Download Govee Home app from the Play Store or Apple Store.
2. Ensure that your mobile’s Wi-Fi is activated, and register a Govee Home Account.
3. Tap on “+” to search the product, and select the model you have to connect.
4. Choose a wifi network and enter the password of the network.
5. Name your lights with English words.

Now follow the instructions below to connect Govee with Google Home:

1. Launch the Google Home app on your IOS or Android device.
2. Tap the “+” icon at the top left corner of the home screen.
3. Then select “Set up device”.
4. Choose “Works with Google”.
5. Tap on the magnifying glass and search for “Govee Home” and tap on it.
6. Log in to your Govee account using the same credential you’re using on the Govee app.
7. Then tap on the blue button “Allow” to let Google access your account information.

Now your Govee products installed on the Govee app are connected to Google Home go back to the Home screen to see your Govee device and control them.

If you want to receive the notifications of your Govee devices via Google Assistant on the smart speaker or display or your mobile phone you need to deactivate the “Do not disturb mode”, follow the next steps to do it:

1. Check if your smartphone or tablet is linked to the same account as your speaker or display.
2. Open the Google Home app.
3. Tap your speaker or display.
4. Then choose the Settings gear icon.
5. Click on “Notifications & digital wellbeing”.
6. Select “Do not disturb” and turn it off.

After that you can modify the name of your Govee products using the Google Home app, putting a simple name is important if you want to remember it easily and make Google Assistant recognize it faster, and here’s how to change it:

1. Open the Google Home app.
2. Select the Govee device you want to edit.
3. At the top right corner, click on Settings.
4. Then Device information and then Device name.
5. Enter a new name and tap Save.

What I can do if I face connectivity issues?

When pairing the Govee products with Google Home you may face many connection issues such as problems in the router or interference issues, you can solve this problem by reading this article: “Govee Lights Won’t Connect To Google Home (Troubleshooting Tips)“.

What are the voice commands you can use to control Govee lights?

When you pair your Govee lights with the Google Home app you’ll have the possibility to control them with your voice assistant by using voice commands and without having to open the app through devices such as your mobile, “Google Home Mini”, “Google Audio”, “Google Nest Hub” and more.

These are the voice commands you can rely on:

• “Hey Google, Turn Off (lights name) “.
• “Google, Turn On (lights name) “.
• “Ok Google, set (lights name) to red.”
• “Google, turn on (lights name) and make the color blue.”
• “Hey Google, set (lights name) to 68% percent.”

Devices from which you can control Govee lights.

There are many gadgets that you can use to control the Govee light strips or bulbs and some of them are provided by Google like speakers & displays.

Here are the devices:

• IOS and Android phones and tablets.
• Google Nest Mini.
• Google Nest Audio.
• Nest Hub (2nd gen).
• Nest Hub Max.

How to unlink Govee Home from Google Home.

Generally, you can do this step when you’re done with the Govee lights and you want to switch to another brand or if you want to connect them to another app such as Alexa or SmartThings, or just if you find that the Google Home integration is not for you.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Open the Google Home app on your phone or tablet.
2. Tap on the “+” icon at the top left corner.
3. Select Set up a device, then choose “Works with Google”.
4. On the account listed press “Govee Home” and select Unlink account.
5. A popup message will appear, tap on Unlink.

Final Words.

Connecting Govee products to Google Home will add a lot of comfort because you won’t have to access the app every time you want to turn the lights on or off, and it’s more convenient for elderly people who aren’t very comfortable with technology so they just have to use their voice to turn on the lights.