Govee Reverse Engineering

A place to store information about reverse enginering Govee's products, and documenting their protocols

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A Message to Govee

In the U.S., Section 103(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (17 USC § 1201 (f) - Reverse Engineering) specifically states that it is legal to reverse engineer and circumvent the protection to achieve interoperability between computer programs (such as information transfer between applications). Interoperability is defined in paragraph 4 of Section 103(f).

It is also often lawful to reverse-engineer an artifact or process as long as it is obtained legitimately. If the software is patented, it doesn't necessarily need to be reverse-engineered, as patents require a public disclosure of invention. It should be mentioned that, just because a piece of software is patented, that does not mean the entire thing is patented; there may be parts that remain undisclosed.

Govee we love your products! I initally decided to publish my findings, and protocol reverse engineering so that anyone else who is looking to do the same might have a place to start. As hackers, we wanted to add more functionality to your devices, and controll them not just from the app.

TL;DR, please don't sue me, any contributors, or DMCA this repo. If you wish for me to take it down, please email me or leave a issue on this repo stating that you would like it to be removed, and I will happily do so.

With all that out of the way, on to the documentation!

Products

Contributing

Please feel free to make pull requests or issues with new products, or updated documentation for existing products. I want to exmand this repo to as many products to serve as a hub for reverse enginering Govee's products.