With a low price and sleek design, the Govee Smart Air Quality Monitor is a great pick if you’re on a budget — even if it’s missing some important features.
Govee might be known for its lineup of colorful smart lights, but there’s a lot more to the manufacturer’s catalog than LED strips and smart bulbs. In fact, one of its newest products is the Govee Smart Air Quality Monitor — a tabletop device that measures temperature, humidity, and airborne particulates in your home. It’s a nifty little gadget, and it looks great on a desk or living room table, but it lacks some key functionality that you’d expect out of an air quality monitor.
However, if you can look past a few shortcomings, the Govee Smart Air Quality Monitor is a solid option for shoppers on a budget. It’s also a great choice for households equipped with other Govee products, as it’s controlled by the same powerful smartphone app and allows you to quickly customize its performance.
Unlike some air quality monitors, the setup for this Govee model is quick and painless. No calibrations are needed, which allows you to simply take the monitor out of the box, plug it in, connect it to your smartphone, and start taking measurements. The display on the unit is large and vivid — its brightness is adjustable in the app — and it has enough space to easily display the temperature, humidity, and particulate matter that’s 2.5 microns or smaller (PM2.5). There’s also a function button on top of the unit that lets you swap out PM2.5 values for the current time.
