Govee Smart Lights

I can’t add a pic or I’d show you a screenshot. I have Brinks (alarm.com), Govee, Big Ass Fans, Levoit, Nest, Rachio, Tuya plugins with 120+ accessories in Homebridge. I have been running for years on a Pi2 with 1Gb RAM and 100M LAN and the CPU usage barely goes up, it has .25Gb free RAM and I do not have any lag in HomeKit. A Pi5 with 4G is plenty good for Homebridge. The only caveat for me is to not run video cameras through this as it won’t keep up.

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I’m running about 60 Govee devices via Homebridge and I haven’t had a moment of downtime. Rock solid and very easy to use interface.

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Hey I 'd like a recommendation, I have some govee lights and some "smartlight" ones and they work pretty well normally, about a year and a half ago I setup a raspberry pi with homebridge to unify everything under homekit instead of each system's app and it worked pretty well for about a year. The last 6 months tho, seems like every week they stop working, either an update that breaks, or tuya something something lost access I really have no idea why so much, sometimes is the govee that stop working, or sometimes the tuya bridge, does anyone have a similar experience? What plugins are you …

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… Homebridge, have only been using for a few months. I only use the web link currently without any hardware. The only few plugins I use are - Homebridge Govee and Homebridge Panasonic MirAIe AC Platform. Govee also I don't use much as the light colors are very weird than what's shown in the Apple Home app and behave differently. Today, I have also installed the Apple TV Enhanced plugin, but I haven't set it up yet. However, my reason for this post is that I am unable to update the Homebridge and Homebridge UI. For the former, it gives an error - Operation failed with code 243. For the latter, …

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