- Govee introduced three new smart lighting products at CES 2026, including the new Floor Lamp 3 and two new ceiling lights.
- The new Ultra ceiling light encourages you to create your own animated color gradients, while the Sky ceiling light relies on natural lighting.
- In addition to the new hardware, Govee announced a number of new software updates, including DaySync, which changes smart lights based on the time of day.
Govee’s display at CES 2026 showed that the company is not only focused on evolving its smart lighting range, but is also dedicated to making the technology even smarter through its new era of smart lights and software updates, and Philips Hue should be careful.
Known for making some of the best smart lights out there, three new products join Govee’s range of lighting products. These include the Floor Lamp 3, Govee Ultra Ceiling Lamp, and Govee Sky Ceiling Lamp, each of which offer Matter integration and compatibility with Apple’s HomeKit smart home platform.
While we don’t have pricing details for the new range, the new Floor Lamp 3 succeeds the Govee Floor Lamp 2 and features an improved LuminBlend+ color system. Its new advanced features now let you control a staggering 281 trillion colors and a wide temperature lighting spectrum ranging from 1,000K to 10,000K, a feature coming to other Govee smart lights this year.
That said, the Ultra dome light and the Sky dome light are new to the Govee family, both are 21 inches in size, but offer different and unique features.
The Ultra Ceiling Light is a more fun version of the smart light, with a detailed 616-pixel LED array that can display intricate animated scenes and gradients with 5000 lumens of brightness. You can even go a step further and design your own patterns in the Govee app “with up to eight different layers of movement, color and shapes,” or you can select from the 20+ included presets, something not even the Philips Hue Datura ceiling light has yet to achieve.
When it comes to the Sky ceiling light, this model is designed to emulate natural light, with 5,200 lumens of brightness and edge-mounted LEDs that mimic the effects of a real skylight. While the Ultra ceiling light offers a more creative experience, the Sky ceiling light leans more towards the wellness side of smart lighting, offering realistic blue sky effects during the day and warm sunset tones at night with the help of DaySync, a new lighting feature introduced by Govee.
Govee catches up with personalization
We really like Govee as a budget smart lighting brand, but one of its drawbacks so far has been the lack of advanced features offered by rivals like Philips Hue. With the new DaySync and AI Lighting Bot 2.0 features, all that could be about to change.
At CES 2026, Govee announced its new DaySync functionality along with its range of new hardware. As the name implies, DaySync can alter the brightness and color of your smart lights depending on the time of day. It can also detect sunrise and sunset times and local conditions and change the lighting accordingly, which is typical of the Sky ceiling light.
Additionally, Govee introduced its AI Lighting Bot 2.0, an improved version of its scene-changing chatbot feature that adjusts animated scenes in its graphical and pixel smart lights. Instead of using fixed commands, you can now alter smart lighting through natural conversations.
As we said above, we don’t know how much Govee’s new Floor Lamp 3, Ultra Ceiling Lamp, or Sky Ceiling Lamp will cost, or when they will be available for purchase. That aside, this is a big step for both Govee’s smart lighting hardware and software, and 2026 is already shaping up to be a bright year for one of our favorite smart home brands.
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