My govee lights are the bane of my smart home. I’ve tried 3 different ways of integrating them and really only Govee2MQTT has been working for me but it’s really delayed. Wish I had known about zigbee and HA before redoing our basement’s lighting.

Edit to answer your actual question: I had to use the govee app a ton before Govee2MQTT and it still is the only non HA integration that’s directly hooked up with Google.

No but I definitely want to now that I know this exists

My Chromecast slowly stopped turning on the sound system and TV via CEC so instead of buying a new one, my family knows there’s a red button in the theater room. It cuts the power to the Chromecast via a smart switch and then power cycles the TV and sound system. Saved us $100 and the world some e-waste.

Out of curiosity what conditions had to exist for backblaze to purge your drive? I use them as well and didn’t know that could happen