Govee GU10 Smart Bulb Matter RGBWW Light Bulb Work with Alexa Google Assistant WiFi Bluetooth Color Changing MR16

The media could not be loaded. I bought the Govee H600D series lights for my wife, who wanted to be able to control each of our recessed can LEDs. After setting them up, I feel in love with them! First of all, setup of the lights in the app is super easy. You install the lights, download the app, search your product and turn Bluetooth ON on your phone, turn on the lights and it finds them. **I will say it is a little cumbersome to set up each light one at a time, but once done, things are easy. I only had eight lights, so not too bad. Uh, lots of colors, with some kinda generic presettings called “Scenes” and a color wheel to select any color, plus a few preset solid colors. A DIY mode, but I haven’t played with that. Music mode is pretty cool, see video. A problem I ran into that others might is my light switch. I had a dual switch setup with a dimmer on one. So, the type where either switch turns the lights on and off and one switch dims them. First, I installed the lights on the unaltered switches and got lots of flickering. Researched and found out dimmers are not compatible. So googled if I could just replace a dimmer switch with a regular switch and it said I could, but when I went to swap it out, I realized it wasn’t going to work. The number of wires didn’t match what was on the new switch. Further research revealed that a dual switch setup does not use a regular switch, but instead uses “3 way” switches. So I bought a 3 way switch and put that in. It wasn’t obvious how to do it, but here’s what I did that worked for changing a 3 way dimmer switch to a 3 way switch with no dimmer: !!!IMPORTANT LIFE PRESERVING MEASURE: ***FIRST: turn OFF power at circuit breaker. THEN, try to turn lights on with the light switch to verify that power is OFF.*** If lights turn on, you have the wrong circuit breaker tripped. Go back to circuit breaker panel and find and trip the correct breaker. If lights DO NOT turn on, you have no power to the switch and it is safe to work on. Bare copper wire coming out of the wall socket is Ground and goes to green screw. Then, there are 3 more wires, which may be any combination of white, red, black, or brown, as far as I can tell. That doesn’t matter for these instructions, but it might be a good idea to mark the common wire with a small flap of electrical tape, just in case for future use. Remove the wire that is attached to the existing switch hole or screw marked “Common” and attach to the new switch in the same spot, “Common”. These are the only two connections that are marked. The other two wires left over are “Traveler” wires and go to the two remaining holes or screws. In my experiment, it didn’t matter which wire went to which remaining hole or screw. I DID google “what happens if you wire a 3 way switch wrong” and the results said it would simply malfunction and would need to be rewired correctly. So, no real safety issues as long as your connections are proper and your wires are in good condition. **Caution: be careful not to damage wire insulation while removing and reinserting wires into holes on the outlets. Once you have swapped the wall switch, reinserted into the wall, and secured with screws, return power to circuit by untripping the circuit breaker switch you previously turned off. Enjoy playing with your lights! Addendum: A couple of things I’ve noticed since install: Sometimes, when set a “Scene”, not all of the lights in a group respond. You must then change the Scene again and then back to the one you wanted in the first place. Not a big deal really. Bluetooth confusion: It seems only one phone can be connected to the lights at a time via Bluetooth, which is a little limiting. “Scenes” are billed as “flowing lighting effects”, but many seem to be just a single color of light. I still like the lights, even though the trade off is fun effects for reduced ease in normal use functionality. Plus, the kids think they’re really cool. Read more

These are probably the best bulbs on the market for those of us who have GU10 track lighting, but also want it to integrate with the rest of our smart home setup. Finding Matter-enabled bulbs that work with Apple Home is hard. I think I found one other, and that one kept disconnecting and eventually the bulbs would become in-connectable Evan after reset. These Govee ones, on the other hand, have been holding up week. Occasionally one of them will randomly not change its color during an automated change, but they at least stay connected to my hubs consistently, and always respond appropriately to manual changes in the Apple Home app at least. Anyway, if you’re here you already probably know you don’t exactly have a lot of options. This might actually be your only option for smart GU10 bulbs at times. But it’s a decent one, and Govee is one of the better Amazon keyboard-smash-name brands out there, and I hope they continue to succeed and achieve mainstream recognition. I’ve bought other products from them and they are very good, long-lasting, consistent and high-quality across the board. Excellent value. The lights feel way brighter to me than the advertised lumens would suggest. This has been true of all the GU10 track lighting I’ve used though. Not sure if it’s because there’s four of them, because they’re downward facing and unshaded, or something else inherent to this type of lighting. But these are no exception. The regular light is very bright and the colorful light is a good bit dimmer (which I have also found to be the norm for GU10 track bulbs). Read more

Easy set up with our Alex app. They work well, very nice to be able to easily dim the lights over the island in our kitchen. While we don't need the lights too sync with our music, it was fun to try it out a couple of times. I'd buy then again Read more

I wanted some more functionality for my over head lights and these worked almost perfectly. The color range is great and the light is more than enough from just even one bulb. I had no issues with getting them connected and configured. They aren’t truly dimmable though. Like most other led bulbs they won’t work properly at all on a dimmer switch, even if the switch is fully on. So the “dimmable” part is only through the app. I didn’t mind just swapping the light switch out but it is something to keep in mind if the circuit you want these for has a dimmer switch. Read more

The media could not be loaded. Perfect bulbs for the lights mounted in each side of my garage door. The bulbs are Wi-fi and you can change the colors or create different color scenes using the Govee app. Each bulb has to be controlled independently. You can also set in and off tiles for each bulb using the Govee app. I bought these because my bright white lights looked terrible with my Christmas lights. I installed these bulbs, attached them to my wi-fi network and now they flash multiple colors just like my Christmas lights. After the holiday season I will go the app and change them back to solid white. I can also make them multiple other scenes depending on the color I want on each holiday. They are super easy to control with the Govee app. Make sure they are the right size and bulb end type for your specific lights. They have worked great so far but they are very new. Instructions and description says they will last thousand of hours so we will have to wait and see. Read more

This bulbs are Greta very bright and color accuracy is great, matter option/compatibility is good to have Read more

Another great product from Govee. I installed these in my basement about 6 months ago and I've been very happy with them. They have all the various colors you want and do a great job dimming without any flicker. Read more

Bought these for my ceiling fan. The brightness is ok. They aren’t too expensive and easily just turns in. I have 3 of them currently in use. Read more