Control Govee LED Lights from Python

This library provides control over Govee-manufactured lights. @wez built this for use with Home Assistant. You can find the corresponding hacs-govee-lan repo here.

It has an emphasis on making use of their LAN API but also makes use of their HTTP API in order to retrieve the user-assigned names of the devices, and to control the devices that don't yet support the LAN API.

Getting Started

from govee_led_wez import GoveeController, GoveeDevice

controller = GoveeController()

def device_changed(device: GoveeDevice):
    print(f"{device.device_id} state -> {device.state}")

controller.set_device_change_callback(device_changed)
if YOUR_API_KEY:
    controller.set_http_api_key(YOUR_API_KEY)
    controller.start_http_poller()
controller.start_lan_poller()

if YOU_WANT_BLE:
    # Optional, if you want bluetooth device control.

    # This will disconnect from devices after they are idle
    # for a while. If you omit this, devices will be disconnected
    # in case of error. You probably want this.
    controller.start_ble_idler()

    # This will look for new devices in the background,
    # by default every 10 minutes
    controller.start_ble_poller()

    # Alternatively: This will look for devices right now,
    # but note that it needs # to perform discovery and can
    # take several seconds
    # await controller.query_ble_devices()

# Devices will now be discovered asynchronously

Notes

Devices are discovered asynchronously. While the full set of devices associated with your account can be returned via the HTTP API, the initial request for them is made asynchronously by the background http poller task. If you need the list immediately, you can call controller.query_http_devices() to obtain that list.

The HTTP API has some tight rate limits. This library prefers to avoid read-after-write operations to verify the state in order to reserve the calls for issuing commands to your devices. This means that, for devices that don't support the LAN API, the assumed state may be a bit wonky until the device is controlled. You can call controller.update_device_state() to explicitly retrieve the state.

BLE is preferred over HTTP. When we know a device is accessible via BLE, then we will attempt to control it via BLE before trying to use HTTP. LAN is always attempted first, as it has the lowest latency.

BLE is currently only usable in conjunction with HTTP and/or LAN discovery. There isn't a BLE-only usage at the moment.

Contributing

A Makefile provides shortcuts for doing stuff:

• make setup - do one-time setup for developing
• make check - performs type checking and linting
• make test - runs tests
• make fmt - runs code formatting, potentially appeasing make check
• make build - builds distributable bits

GitHub Actions will run the check, test and build actions on PRs.