The Govee Smart Light Bulbs are a set of four color-changing A19 LED bulbs that can be screwed into a standard outlet, allowing you to add smart lighting to an existing lamp or ceiling fixture via your smartphone, voice commands, or apps. Each of these bulbs produces 800 lumens at 9W and offers 16 million colors, as well as 54 pre-programmed scenes.
Additionally, they support the entire RGBWW spectrum, including white temperatures from very warm to very cool. You just need to download and install the Govee Home App to configure your bulbs for use via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, and no additional hub is needed. Once set up, the Govee Smart Light Bulbs will also respond to voice commands from Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri.
Colorful smart bulbs that you can use to automate lighting in your home
Color customization is the feature that justifies a smart bulb over a regular LED. The 16 million color spectrum covers warm sunset orange for the living room at dinner, deep blue for a movie night, and bright daylight white for working from a home desk. The 54 preset scene modes save the trouble of manually dialing in colors, with options like Romantic, Reading, Movie, and Party that load color and brightness combinations tuned for each scenario.
The Music Sync feature changes the color and brightness of the bulbs in time with whatever’s playing through the phone’s microphone. This can turn your living room into a dynamic light show during a party or a provide a relaxing visualizer during a quiet evening. The Govee Home app handles rhythm detection and offers sensitivity adjustments to pick up either gentle background music or louder party tracks.
You can use Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri through Apple Shortcuts for voice control. Asking a smart speaker to turn off the lights, dim them to 30 percent, or switch the bedroom to red works without opening the app. Group Control in the Govee Home app links up to 50 bulbs, so all the lights in a single room or across the whole house change color and brightness with one tap.
Sunrise and Sunset modes gradually brighten the lights at a set time in the morning so you can wake up to natural-feeling light, then gradually dim them at bedtime to wind down. The timer and scheduling functions handle the rest of the daily routine, like automatically turning porch lights on at sunset. The bulbs run on stable 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, which is what most smart home devices use, but the Wi-Fi connection is required for voice assistant integration.
At $29, down from $40, this four-pack comes out to about $7.25 per bulb for full color-changing RGBWW smart lighting, voice assistant compatibility, music sync, and the Govee Home app ecosystem.