8 Ways To Reconnect Govee Lights With Google Home.

Govee is a popular brand in producing intelligent home lighting such as LED Strip Lights, Smart Bulbs, and more. This gadget offers many features to add convenience and comfort to your house like remote control from an app or voice assistant, the ability to change color and adjust brightness, lower energy consumption, and many more.

Some people pair Govee devices with Google Home to control them through their voice via Google Assistant, create lighting routines and integrate the light strips and bulbs with the rest of the smart home devices in order to avoid using multiple apps at once which may add a lot of comfort to the user.

But sometimes Govee won’t connect to Google Home and users lose all these functionalities related to this combination, this article will show you the major tips and tricks that you need to implement in order to fix this issue.

How to fix Govee Light not responding to Google Home?

So when you control the Govee lights from Google Home products like Google Home Mini, Nest Hub Max, or Google Audio you’ll enjoy a lot of additional features but you may face connection problems that may lower the user experience.

In the following sections, you will find all the solutions that you can try to get your Govee and Google Home back to work.

Tip 1: Distance between router & your devices.

A Wifi router operating on the traditional 2.4 GHz band has the ability to reach up to 150 feet (46 m) indoors and 300 feet (92 m) outdoors, so ensure that your Google and Govee devices are within this range otherwise you will face frequent connectivity issues.

If you’re using an older router that runs on 5 GHz bands you’ll reach approximately one-third of the distance cited before, so a Wifi extender or a mesh network can also help you spread the signals to reach all your smart gadgets around the house.

Tip 2: Internet subscription.

You need an internet connection to control Govee products from Google Home devices, so this issue may occur when your subscription is over.

When your Govee device won’t connect to Google, check your internet subscription if it hasn’t expired yet.

Tip 3: Set the right frequency channel.

All Govee Wifi lights including light strips & bulbs work on a 2.4Ghz channel only, set a different SSID for the 2.4G Wi-Fi and 5G Wi-Fi if you have a dual-band router.

Google Home speakers have the ability to connect to both frequencies 2.4 GHz & 5GHz.

Tip 4: Power Cycle Google Home speaker or display.

When you’re managing Govee lights from the Google smart speaker and it suddenly stops working go and power cycle the smart speaker or display.

• Unplug the power cord from your speaker or display.
• Leave it unplugged for 60 seconds.
• Plug the power cable back in.
  

Tip 5: Power cycle the router.

If power cycling the speaker & display didn’t solve the issue you can turn it into your router and power cycle it by following these instructions.

• Turn off and unplug the router from the outlet.
• Wait for 1 minute.
• Plug in and turn on the router, and allow them to completely boot up.

Tip 6: Reset the router.

When you reset your router you’ll allow it to work better than before and let it re-select the least crowded channel for each frequency, which means a stronger connection to your devices.

Here’s how to reset it:

• Locate the Reset button on the back of your router.
• With the router powered on, use the pointed end of a paperclip to press and hold the Reset button for 15 seconds.
• Wait for the router to fully reset and power back on.
  

Tip 7: Reset your Google Home device.

Resetting a device is considered a good troubleshooting step when you’re facing connectivity problems but you need to implement it only if the previous solutions didn’t fix the issue.

Important: The reset process will put the device on factory setting and all your preferred settings will be deleted, so make sure to remember them.

To reset your Google Home Mini:

• Find the factory reset button at the bottom of the device.
• hold down the factory reset button.
• The resetting process starts after 5 seconds.
• Hold it for another 10 seconds until you hear a confirmation sound.

To reset your Google Home:

• Hold down the microphone mute button at the back of the device for 15 seconds.
• Then the device will tell you when the reset process starts.
  

Tip 8: Reset Govee Devices.

If all previous solutions didn’t resolve your connectivity issue you can reset your Govee light strip or bulbs or whatever product you’re using.

Final Words.

This article can be a guide for you every time your Govee lighting product won’t connect to Google Home, you can also visit other articles on our website to learn more about Govee devices.