Hi, just need a bit of convincing to buy the Immersion kit, just most of the threads on here seem to be peoples problems, seems the slightest reflection or added light seems to throw it off, even the colour of your carpet! Is it really this sensitive, also someone said the colours would always be off on a VA tv panel, which my Sony XJ90 is... i would only be using it to watch movies and gaming, so would want the colours to match the onscreen stuff..
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I finally have my Govee immersion lights the way I want them but I definitely learned some lessons along the way. I thought I might share in case someone else encounters there.
First, I finally got it calibrated correctly. I struggled with this at first because even when the screen was black I was getting a lot of blues and purples... it just seemed off. Turns out, it was partly due to glare from nearby lamps causing the issue. Turning them off and recalibrating so that the circles that you drag around remained entirely within the screen area helped immensely. On my first calibration, I was too intent on getting the center of the circle exactly on the TV's bezel. I suspect this put them too far outside of the screen area.
Second, mounting the camera on the bottom was always the only way to go for me due to aesthetics. I thought I had tested the IR properly to make sure the camera didn't block it but apparently sticking my hand in front of it was no enough of a test. The angled 'lip' on the camera with additional 3M adhesive completely blocked the IR sensor. Luckily I didn't use that adhesive. I was able to use my Dremel to cut the lip off. Problem solved.
Third, before purchasing the Govee, I had plans to use Hyperion and a Raspberry Pi to DIY but when I saw the Prime Day deal on Govee, it just seemed too easy to pass up. Fortuitously, I had already purchased a power-saving power strip. These work by having a 'master' plug and then the other outlets are controlled by the master. In this case, the TV is plugged into the master and when the TV is turned off and stops drawing a certain amount of power, the other outlets cut power. In this way, my Govee lights turn off automatically about 30 seconds after I power off the TV. I wasn't sure if the Govee would remember its settings after losing power but I let it sit overnight and when the power comes back on the Govee comes back alive with all the settings in tact.
I set up my Immersion lights yesterday and while the fluid sim hue test looks pretty great, nothing else seems to work all that well. I haven't tested a ton of different sources, but what I have doesn't seem all that impressive.
For instance, most movies and tv shows don't fill the entire screen so the lights have nothing to react to for the top and bottom, thus displaying blue or purple. And even the sides just didn't do much. The reaction time was too slow to pick up anything flashing or quick movement. I watched some of Iron Man 2 and I expected when the blue car is pushed off screen, the blue would bleed out or when there was a repulser blast that it would flash to that side of the screen. Neither of these things happened.
I also tested Fenyx Immortals on PS5 and the colors were rarely correct, especially the green and yellow. Sometimes they would be correct if I moved a little and others it just seemed random.
Were my expectations too high? Or is there something I'm missing?
If you're not getting anything from the top and bottom try moving your calibration points in a bit, it's not too important to have them right to the edge of the screen. As far as reaction time, ive found that setting the brightness to about 60 percent and having the mode set to game works best. That way if there is a flash of light on the screen the back light has room to go up in brightness, as opposed to being at 100 it's not much of a change if any.
Biggest things for me; bringing the calibration points in a bit.
Making sure there aren't any bright lights or windows next to the tv being picked up by the camera
Brightness set to about 60, and saturation almost all the way down.
And mode set to game if you want fast reaction time.
Also can move the camera a little higher or lower depending on if your mounted on the top or bottom, and angling the camera towards the tv so it's less of a perpendicular angle. Best bet for that is to adjust it while you're in calibration mode, press refresh, and keep adjusting untill you can see the whole tv.
Like the previous post, the biggest difference I found to achieving accuracy of the colours and responsiveness was in bringing the brightness/contrast down and reducing the OLED brightness down on my TV. I'm confident that the govee camera can't handle the amount of light being output from the screen as I accidentally tried to calibrate once with the TV on to find the colours on the calibration screen were totally blown out to white, leading me to believe the camera is too sensitive (to my TV settings at least, but this may be true for other people too).
Commonly I get that constant whitish blue colour even when watching content with swathes of green (I.e. wildlife/jungle based documentaries etc)
I really wish there was a way to reduce the camera input brightness from within the app, as I believe this would help with the colour recognition all round.
Whilst my TV is OLED bright, it's not over bright in the relative sense, so I am loathed to turn the brightness down permanently to facilitate the quirks of the govee system. I've even tried some hacky methods like putting lens filters in front of the govee camera lens to control the amount of light, which does work to some extent (but obviously looks awful so I didn't pursue this as a remedy).
Regarding your high expectations, i totally get that, I must admit I was a bit disappointed after comparing to the demos online. But the other way to look at it is to think of the bias light angle of all of this. Whilst the system can achieve those really vivid colours, I'm not sure if it supposed to be used to drench your walls in hypercolour 100 percent of the time. I think the bias light intention is to reduce the amount of contrast your eyes are exposed to on a bright TV, so maybe turning the overall output brightness on the app down a bit so it blends a bit more with your surroundings might help. I find if the output brightness is too high, I just find it distracting anyway.
I installed the camera on the bottom of the screen and used the orange sponge and/or YouTube video to calibrate. I’m not sure if that the lights are suppose to do this but anyone having problems when watching a movie the lights are mostly pink or blue and doesn’t match the video? Lmk if anyone is having the same problem.
Edit: I forgot to mention that my tv is a 65 inch curve. I’m thinking that’s the reason I’m having a problem.
Writing here to say that I’ve had a similar experience (installed it on Saturday) and I’m curious to see what others write.
My guess is that’s due to the camera not being able to pick the right color from the angle it’s at, maybe because of the viewing angles of the screen itself and/or reflections on the screen.
I got the same experience, no yellow, no green, not even teal. Only Purple, magenta, and blue. During the calibration process, the TV Screen capture has a slight pink hue, I'm guessing the camera came with some hardware issue.
Been testing the new Immersion backlights after making some modifications to the camera by raising it up higher so it can see more of the TV and it is now much better.
Original Review:
https://youtu.be/sYrGYKxjPk4
Updated Tests after altering camera position:
https://youtu.be/surWP4tQZXs
https://youtu.be/YsY0gZPQqv0
So, I'm guessing on your original view it was catching some color reflection from looking up at the tv with some overhead lights. Might be a good reason to keep it at the top for most people. When you put it on the top, it definitely looked much better, but it looks like the bottom is changing colors in much larger chunks than the top or the sides. Is that something that can be adjusted during calibration?
Curious on how you raised and kept the camera secure. I installed mine today. I'm liking it but one side likes to go red/purplish and it didn't appear to capture the entire screen (55 inch) during calibration and would like to try raising it
I've been looking at reviews on YouTube for TV backlights. I was initially interested in Govee, then started looking at sync box light systems like Philips Hue and Lytmi NEO, but now I'm leaning back towards Govee again. Some of the complaints about Govee was that they didn't handle white well but it seems like the most recent iteration has dedicated white channels? How's the latency?
I have a few Govee lights and I notice they quietly release improved products so it can be a bit confusing when looking at reviews which might actually be covering older versions (ex. the previous backlight didn't seem to have a white channel). So if you have the most recent version H605B/H6199 how do you like it? And if you had an older version how does it compare to the most recent iteration?
Edit: I might be wrong, maybe it doesn't have dedicated whites? I noticed the app had cool white/warm white so I just made the assumption but could be wrong.
I just bought the Govee lights for my tv and am struggling to get the accuracy for the colors. Sometimes it seems to be good then sometimes it doesn’t follow at all. Any suggestions?
Can someone help clarify something for me? I see immersion and dreamview used almost interchangeably. this makes it hard for me sometime reading since I'm new to this environment.
Is Dreamview just Govee's name for an immersive experience, is Immersion in their world just the behind the screen kit, or are these two different things with one replacing the other (or do they exist beside each other?) .
I recently installed Govee immersion on my 43 inch tv and Im creating this post to document how I installed it. I saw this method mentioned in an Amazon review and I decided to try it out. The results are pretty good.
This is how the back of the tv looks after installation.
I did not use the adhesive that is on the strip. I used LED mounting brackets to attach it to the back of the TV (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08D6YG1H3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). I initially used tape but it started peeling off after a week.
This is a close up of the edges.
The humps on the strip will be visible from the front of the tv if it is attached too close to the edge. so make sure you leave a slight gap from the edge when you install it.
The strip in action -
https://streamable.com/y8s1et
Brightness 50% Relative Brightness 30% Saturation 5%
Wanted to share a look at the new TV Backlight 3 Pro system. I’ve been testing it for over a week now and it’s easily the best system they’ve released to date! Keep an eye out for official announcement from Govee soon.
So I wanted to make a more immersive experience when Im watching TV or just playing games in general. Then I found out about Govee. They seemed pretty good, but I don't really know. Should I get Govee Led Lights strips, if yes what kind of Govee lights should I get? 😁
I was mostly looking for Led lights which can sync with the TV. Kind of like the Philips Gradient Hue Strips. Any tips?
Lot of moving light bars around and setting and calibrating - but I am very happy with the result. Maybe need one more strip under the shelf :)