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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-20Govee Floor Lamp 3
Exactly which product this is[3]
- Model number
- H16B0
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- Not established
- Also sold or listed as
- Not established
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Alexa | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[5] | Named directly on Govee's product page. |
| Google Home | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[5] | Named on Govee's product page as Google Assistant. |
| Apple Home | PartialPartial support — see the catch[6] | Reachable through Matter only — Govee does not advertise Apple Home on this product, and the words Apple, HomeKit and Siri appear nowhere on the page. Requires a HomePod mini, HomePod 2nd gen or Apple TV 4K as controller, plus iOS 16.2 or later. Govee's Matter FAQ caps Matter control at switching on/off, brightness, colour temperature and colour changing. A Matter controller and IPv6 are required, and commissioning needs 2.4 GHz. |
| SmartThings | PartialPartial support — see the catch[6] | Not named on the US product page, though Govee's own press release lists SmartThings. Matter certification makes it technically reachable. Recorded as partial with the source discrepancy noted rather than resolved. Govee's Matter FAQ caps Matter control at switching on/off, brightness, colour temperature and colour changing. A Matter controller and IPv6 are required, and commissioning needs 2.4 GHz. |
| Home Assistant | PartialPartial support — see the catch[6] | Via Home Assistant's Matter integration; Govee names Home Assistant nowhere. Matter provides basic light controls only. Govee's Matter FAQ caps Matter control at switching on/off, brightness, colour temperature and colour changing. A Matter controller and IPv6 are required, and commissioning needs 2.4 GHz. |
Protocols: WIFI · BLUETOOTH · MATTER[1][2][4][16]
Needs before it works: No Govee bridge exists or is needed — Wi-Fi plus the Govee Home app works standalone. A third-party Matter controller IS required for any Matter or Apple Home use, along with IPv6, and commissioning needs a 2.4 GHz network.[6]
What it can do[15]
You can tell it to
- On/off
- Brightness
- Color
- Color temperature
It reports
Not established — we could not confirm this from vendor documentation
- Alexa: Govee's own Matter FAQ (us.govee.com/pages/matter-faq, read 2026-08-20) states what crosses the Matter boundary in one sentence — "Switching on/off, brightness adjustment, color temperature adjustment, and color changing" — and adds "More features TBD". Everything this light is actually sold on (scene modes, DIY effects, segment control, music sync) lives in the Govee Home app and is not part of that list.
- Google Home: Govee's own Matter FAQ (us.govee.com/pages/matter-faq, read 2026-08-20) states what crosses the Matter boundary in one sentence — "Switching on/off, brightness adjustment, color temperature adjustment, and color changing" — and adds "More features TBD". Everything this light is actually sold on (scene modes, DIY effects, segment control, music sync) lives in the Govee Home app and is not part of that list.
- Apple Home: Govee's own Matter FAQ (us.govee.com/pages/matter-faq, read 2026-08-20) states what crosses the Matter boundary in one sentence — "Switching on/off, brightness adjustment, color temperature adjustment, and color changing" — and adds "More features TBD". Everything this light is actually sold on (scene modes, DIY effects, segment control, music sync) lives in the Govee Home app and is not part of that list.
- SmartThings: Govee's own Matter FAQ (us.govee.com/pages/matter-faq, read 2026-08-20) states what crosses the Matter boundary in one sentence — "Switching on/off, brightness adjustment, color temperature adjustment, and color changing" — and adds "More features TBD". Everything this light is actually sold on (scene modes, DIY effects, segment control, music sync) lives in the Govee Home app and is not part of that list.
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No paid tier, cloud plan or premium feature gate appears on the product page, the Matter FAQ, or the press release.
Maintenance reality
- Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- 2100 lumens, 170 degree beam, 1000-10000 K. 144 RGB plus 144 warm-cool white LEDs, covering up to 645 sq ft. Aluminium alloy unibody. Dimensions, weight, wattage, voltage and warranty are not published in Govee's served HTML — the specification tab is client-rendered and absent from the page source, so those fields are unknown rather than borrowed from retailer listings.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Govee publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
Everything the lamp is marketed on — the gradient effects, the 100-plus preset scenes, DaySync, the AI lighting features — runs through the Govee Home app, not Matter. A buyer choosing this for Apple Home or SmartThings gets a dimmable colour light, not the light show.
Who it's for
Alexa or Google Home households who will use the Govee app for the effects, and Matter households who want a certified colour floor lamp and accept basic on/off, brightness and colour control. Not a fit for anyone expecting the marketed scenes to appear in Apple Home.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] FCC equipment authorization 2A7VD-H16B0, grantee Shenzhen Qianyan Technology LTD, grant Notes naming this product (filing read 2026-08-09 via fccid.io; the FCC's own apps.fcc.gov attachment endpoint returns HTTP 403 to us and that refusal was respected rather than circumvented). Authorised ranges: 2402-2480 MHz (BLE) and 2412-2462 MHz (Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz), with 'Test report BLE' and 'Test report BLE DATA' exhibits dated 2026-04-29. Control documents compared in the same pass: user-manual exhibit of 2A7VD-H61F2 (Govee Strip Light 2 Pro, the known-positive) and of 2A7VD-H61E6 (Govee COB Strip Light Pro), which are the same document with the model string swapped; both give 'Control Methods: Govee Home App, Voice Control' and name Bluetooth only in pairing, Matter-commissioning and troubleshooting steps. — registry-lookup, verified 2026-08-09Backs: Protocols
- [2] us.govee.com product page for Govee Floor Lamp 3 (read 2026-08-09, plain fetch AND browser-rendered): the product's own description and its schema.org Product block contain zero occurrences of 'Bluetooth'; the rendered 'Specifications' section carries no connectivity table. · Known-positive control on the same pipeline: us.govee.com/products/govee-led-strip-light-2-pro renders a FAQs section reading 'Do these require Wi-Fi or just Bluetooth? They can be used with both Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth.' · Dead-path control: govee.com/support/product/ZZZZNOTREAL returns the same ~3.15 MB shell as a real model page, neither containing its own model string. — vendor-page research (plain fetch escalated to browser render) + negative and positive controls, verified 2026-08-09Backs: Protocols
- [3] us.govee.com/products/govee-floor-lamp-3 structured product data — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-26Backs: Price, Product identity
- [4] CSA certified-products database entry for Govee Floor Lamp 3 (csa-iot.org) — certification-database check, verified 2026-07-26Backs: Protocols
- [5] us.govee.com product page — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-26Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility
- [6] us.govee.com/pages/matter-faq — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-26Backs: Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility, Required hub or bridge
- [7] Absence check of raw product-page HTML on us.govee.com — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-26
- [8] Govee press release 'Govee Introduces Floor Lamp 3 and Lantern Floor Lamp' (prnewswire.com) — vendor-page research, verified 2026-07-26
- [9] Govee press release dating retail launch to 2026-05-07; us.govee.com product page reporting InStock with active purchase controls — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-07-26Backs: Market availability
- [10] BQ-107 re-verification batch 36, 2026-08-20. Market re-read at us.govee.com/products/govee-floor-lamp-3: $169.99 for the 1-pack — unchanged — with a 2-pack at $161.49 per unit, and no strike-through price. Ecosystem language on the page is "Govee Home App, Matter, Alexa, and Google Assistant voice control", naming neither Apple Home nor SmartThings. Home Assistant re-checked from the counterparty side: H16B0 does not appear among the 200+ models listed by the govee_light_local integration, so the Matter route remains the only documented path. — vendor-and-counterparty re-verification (BQ-107 batch 36; placeholder replaced in place per BQ-218 R-4), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Research status
- [11] fccid.io, FCC ID 2A7VD-H16B0 — regulatory-filing research, verified 2026-08-17Backs: Wi-Fi bands it can use
- [12] us.govee.com, Floor Lamp 3 product page — vendor-page research (existing citation re-read; absence recorded as absence), verified 2026-08-18
- [13] home-assistant.io Govee lights local supported-model list, plus the record's own cited Govee product page, Matter FAQ, FCC and CSA entries, all re-read 2026-08-18 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-18
- [14] us.govee.com product page for the Floor Lamp 3, re-read 2026-08-20 (BQ-107 batch 36): $169.99 for the 1-pack, $161.49 per unit for the 2-pack, no strike-through price, listed as a Best Seller and available. — vendor-and-counterparty re-verification (BQ-107 batch 36), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Price, Market availability
- [15] CSA certified-products entry for the Govee Floor Lamp 3, read 2026-08-20: certificate CSA25F54MAT48806-24, certified 12/01/2025, Matter specification 1.3, transport "Wi-Fi, Bluetooth", Vendor ID 0x1387, Product ID 0x16B0 — Primary Device Type ID 0x010D, the Matter Extended Color Light. Bounded by Govee's Matter FAQ (read the same day), which caps Matter at on/off, brightness, colour temperature and colour changing. — vendor-and-ecosystem-doc research (BQ-187 capabilities population, batch 9 — lighting), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Capabilities
- [16] This record's existing per-model Matter evidence, re-read 2026-08-20 against the ruled definition of `protocols`: certificate CSA25F54MAT48806. No new external source was fetched — the evidence already on this record was re-examined and this entry states what it establishes. — protocols-definition sweep (BQ-222 batch 2; ruling §1 of docs/decisions/2026-08-20-RULINGS-SITTING.md), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Protocols
Compatibility and lifecycle information reflects the last-verified date above and can change without notice (firmware updates, cloud-service changes, discontinuations). It is provided as-is, for information — verify with the manufacturer before purchasing. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full terms: Terms of Service.