I got the best results when watching full-screen (or 1.85:1 aspect ratio) movies and shows, which give the Govee’s camera the most picture to scan. The Govee’s syncing effects worked best with movies like Avatar, which feature big, bold colors. With all our installation and setup completed, how does Govee’s bias lighting look once it’s syncing with your TV? Well, it depends. Once you tap the button (and assuming you’ve calibrated the Govee’s camera correctly), the Govee lights should begin syncing with the action on your TV screen. Four Music settings (Energetic, Rhythm, Spectrum, and Rolling) dial up a variety of pulsating effects, and the results are eye popping and crowd pleasing.įinally, we get to the main course: video syncing, which you can enable by tapping the Video button in the Govee Home interface.
Next up is a Music mode that uses a built-in microphone to sync the lights with whatever music (or any noise at all, actually) is within earshot. You can also create custom lighting scenes with your own colors and effects. Sunrise, for example, slowly (and repeatedly) fades in a warm glow, while Snowflake has more of a cool, pulsating look. The Govee also offers eight lighting scenes, from Sunrise and Sunset to Candlelight and Snow Flake. (The app automatically fills in the name of the network that your mobile device is connected to, but it won’t scan for other available networks.) I had to tweak my network settings to create a 2.4GHz-only network, then tap in the SSID manually into the Govee’s Wi-Fi settings screen. As with too many other smart devices, the Govee only connects to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks, and it refused to connect to my dual-band network. The app quickly found and paired with my Govee lighting strip.Ĭonnecting the Govee to my Wi-Fi network proved to be a bit more tricky.
#AMBIENT LIGHT TV SYNC INSTALL#
Once you install the app and fire it up, it’ll prompt you to create a Govee account (which you can only do within the app, not on a desktop browser), and then to discover new Govee devices via Bluetooth.
Now comes the software, which comes in the form of the Govee Home app for iOS and Android. Positioned this way, the camera gets enough of a look at your TV screen to gauge the images and colors in the picture.įinally, you’ll need to stick the Govee control box (which is roughly the size of a deck of cards) onto the back of your TV, and then connect the lighting strip and the camera via a pair of USB Type-A ports, while an AC adapter plugs into a barrel-shaped power port. Next comes the compact Govee camera, which you’re supposed to stick on top of your TV near the middle, with the camera lens parallel to the floor. I was able to tuck the excess lighting around the curved corners of my set, but I’d recommend you only install the strip on a TV that’s the recommended 55- to 80 inches (measured diagonally). If you use the Govee on a TV that’s smaller than 55 inches (as I discovered to my chagrin when I installed it on my 46-inch Sony Bravia TV), you might find that the first two segments are too long, and cutting them will disconnect the other sections. Govee’s DreamColor for TV bias lighting kit includes a three-segment LED light strip, a camera that mounts to the top of your TV, and a control box that sits in back.īecause the strip comes in three connected pieces, you can’t simply cut it to fit your TV like other bias lighting strips we’ve tried. Once you’ve peeled off a plastic film to reveal the adhesive backing, you stick the first part of the strip along the right rear edge of your TV, then secure the second part along the top edge of your set, and then the third segment down the left edge. The Govee lighting strip arrives on a reel like many other bias lighting strips we’ve seen, but this one is a little different: Instead of a single long strip, the Govee comes in three segments joined by a pair of short coiled cords.
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