Automate your light schedule to get your lights to turn on automatically so you can set it and forget about it. This also helps during high use times such as the Halloween 2023 when the Cloud servers became overloaded. But anyone that had their light schedules setup were not affected other than they could not make any changes while others were not able to do much.

The following example will share the way that I have mine setup. Here are how my lights are setup.

• Lights turn on at 6:30pm each day to my “Neutral” scene which I use for security lighting.
• During certain times of the year, at 6:31pm our Holiday automation will set the lights to the appropriate scene.
• At 1:00am my lights will revert back to my “Neutral” scene for security lighting again.
• At 4:00am my lights will turn off.

Setup

Start by creating the Tap-To-Run scenes that you will be setting up.

• Neutral – This is my white light scene used for Security lighting.
• Holiday Scenes – Create various Tap-To-Run scenes for different holidays that you want to use. I have scenes for Christmas, Halloween, Patriotic, Easter, etc
• Off – Create a Tap-To-Run to turn off all the lights

Creating the Main Automations

1. Navigate to the Home Screen using the Home icon in the Govee App.
2. Navigate to the Automation tab at the top of the screen
3. Next to Schedule, click on the “+” button to create a new Automation and select “Plan by Week”
4. Change the name of your Automation if you like, I have mine setup as Front Yard.
5. Add your First Time Point
   • Tap on the Time field and set the time that you want your lights to Turn On
   • Tap on Import commands and select the DIY that you have for your Neutral scene and tap on the Check Mark to copy all the settings.
   • *If you change your Tap-to-Run scene in the future, it does not automatically update the automation
   • Tap on the check mark button to save your settings for that Time Point
6. Add another Time Point and repeat if necessary.
   • Repeat Step 5 to configure your other time Points. Following My example you would set another Time Point for 1:00am and a third for 4:00am.

Setting up the Holiday Automations

1. Navigate to the Home Screen using the Home icon in the Govee App.
2. Navigate to the Automation tab at the top of the screen
3. Next to Schedule, click on the “+” button to create a new Automation and select “Plan by Date”
4. Change the name of your Automation based on the Holiday that you are setting up.
5. Tap on the Date field and configure the Starting Date and Ending Date you want this holiday setting to run.
   • For the example, I have my Halloween setting set for October 1 – October 31
6. Tap on the + Button to add a Time Point.
   • Similar to the earlier Automation, set the first time point as the time that the scene will turn on. I set mine to 1 minute after my normal schedule, so I have it set to turn on at 6:31pm
   • Tap on Import Commands and select the appropriate holiday scene that you are configuring.
   • Save your Time Point Settings
7. Repeat Step 6 to setup any other appropriate Time Points if needed.
   • For my lights, I setup a Time Point at 1:00am to turn off my Curtain lights. This turns off the curtains and the rest of my lights are controlled by the main automation to return them to the Neutral settings.
8. Repeat Steps 1-7 for any other Holidays that you want to setup.

Troubleshooting

I Updated my Tap-to-Run But the Automation Isn’t Reflecting it

When you update your Tap-to-Run scene, it will not automatically update the automation. So what you will need to do is edit your Automation and remove all the commands for the Time Point you want to edit, then import the commands into the Time Point again.

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