This light looks nice and appears to be high quality. It works amazingly with the BT motion sensor from Govee as well.
You set it up from within the Govee app. Please note, mine came with older firmware (1.01) and did not immediately support Matter. Not even an option. Also no way I could find to force a firmware update. Be patient.
Afterr a few hours firmware has updated itself and added Matter support. If you use Home Assistant or another Matter controller, you might just get a message then to add a Matter device.
I included it into my Matter ecosystem with moderate success using Home Assistant, eventually getting three of these lights up and running. Please note, you will not find a scannable code sticker, but you can find the Matter inclusion code once your firmware is updated. You can paste that into whatever home automation system you want to use and it should add from there.
The wifi in 1.02 is very finicky. It wants 2.4 GHz and WPA 2, not 3. I set up an extra SSID with that but it prefers some of my WAPs over others for initial pairing (mostly picky about Omada managed devices). Once all of that happens, you will get matter credentials and WIFI, and then it's actually ready for Home Assistant integration.
On one of my units, I gave up trying to use the Android version of Matter integration inherent in my Home Assistant app and Google Home, and instead used the Aqara, which worked fine and was very fast. Then I added it from there to Home Assistant. Sometimes you need to toggle the device on and off during integration.
Also, you can have complete control over all features from Govee, while still maintaining control from Home Assistant or from Google Home.
Mounting to the ceiling or any old fixture is such a breeze. No neutral wire. Thing just works right out of the box.
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