I reverse-engineered my Govee smart lights to integrate them into my smart home
I was determined to get these lights working locally. Here's how I did it, and how you can learn to do it too.
I've been going all out on my smart home recently, and that includes finding new ways to integrate older hardware that I have lying around into Home Assistant. That hasn't been too much of an issue; many of my older Tuya devices work with Local Tuya, and I have a lot of self-hosted services that are useful for feeding info into Home Assistant, too. I hit a major snag when it came to my Govee H615B strip lights, though, which led me down a rabbit hole of reverse engineering to integrate them like I had everything else.
