Govee lights

Some of these aren’t automations persay just conveniences My govee lights into home assistant then back to HomeKit so I can expose scenes as buttons and use Siri on (wife doesn’t like having multiple apps HAOS included to do things), also have them turn on and off with other lights in the room at the same time HAOS automation. Expose other devices in HomeKit for status stuff like the litter robots and cat feeder feed levels so we don’t have to check 4 other places. I also made the waste baskets as “locks” so when they are full they send push notifications that pop up on even the appleTVs so …

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Hue for sure, the integration is local over zigbee Govee is cloud only and has lots of latency. Its also the slowest to reconnect to wifi, often needing me to open the app before the wifi reconnects after an internet drop or similar.

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I have Samsung appliances and smarththings works well with HA. I’m still using homebridge for some other things like Govee lights as the HA doesn’t work as well. Same with Ubiquiti things. Network adds well but protect isn’t great on there and access is non existent.

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Suggestion for non-app/branded Smart Lights. Does anyone have any recommendations for smart lights that don't function via a proprietary app like LIFX or Govee. I have both of the aforementioned brands throughout my house and trying to get them to work properly with Home Assistant is quite the pain in the a\*\*. Don't get me wrong, the products themselves are nothing to really complain about, but I'm really trying to get rid of all the standalone "smart" apps and utilize products that are more open, like Zigbee or Z-Wave. I have some ThirdReality Zigbee buttons that work great, and thought …

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