Smart bed sensor
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Interesting. If you have a bed like mine without legs, I don't think you'd get away with only two sensors. The bed would be on a slant so perhaps a set of 1 active sensor and 3 dummies to keep things level.
Two other thoughts:
Battery change? Bit of a pain to pick the bed up, or indeed plug it in. So I think long battery life would be a big ticket item
Also you've got (likely) 4 possible states:
Empty
Occupant 1
Occupant 2
Occupant 1 + Occupant 2
Just random thoughts
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Interesting. If you have a bed like mine without legs, I don't think you'd get away with only two sensors. The bed would be on a slant so perhaps a set of 1 active sensor and 3 dummies to keep things level.
Two other thoughts:
Battery change? Bit of a pain to pick the bed up, or indeed plug it in. So I think long battery life would be a big ticket item
Also you've got (likely) 4 possible states:
Empty
Occupant 1
Occupant 2
Occupant 1 + Occupant 2
Just random thoughts
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Thanks for your comments! The idea is to use at least 2 of them @wmarcolin so that the bed is stable. I guess the other type is where you don´t have any legs and that should still be fine to use two of them on one end of the bed.
The sensors will detect the difference in pressure when you are in the bed compared to when you are not, so it will adapt quickly to the bed you are using. Large dogs might trigger false positives but we believe we can make it reliable enough for most situations.
Great alternative use case @basai. In that case sounds like you would need the raw values. The first version will not be as accurate as a scale but might be accurate enough for your application. Let me think about it..If you are interested to try it out please send us an email and we will come back to you when it is ready - smartfurniturepads@gmail.com
@Christer said in Smart bed sensor:
Thanks for your comments! The idea is to use at least 2 of them @wmarcolin so that the bed is stable. I guess the other type is where you don´t have any legs and that should still be fine to use two of them on one end of the bed.
The sensors will detect the difference in pressure when you are in the bed compared to when you are not, so it will adapt quickly to the bed you are using. Large dogs might trigger false positives but we believe we can make it reliable enough for most situations.
Great alternative use case @basai. In that case sounds like you would need the raw values. The first version will not be as accurate as a scale but might be accurate enough for your application. Let me think about it..If you are interested to try it out please send us an email and we will come back to you when it is ready - smartfurniturepads@gmail.com
I agree with @wmarcolin's assessment that there would need to be dummy sensors of the same height, so that the bed wouldn't be off balance.
I already have a "smart base" for my bed. In the application for my smart base, it monitors my sleep time, but there doesn't seem to be any sort of output for telling me when I'm actually in my bed. Someone developed a MQTT plugin for Home Assistant, so I can do somethings from HA, like change the incline, turn on/off the LED lighting, but nothing to tell me if someone is actually in the bed, which is disappointing. I would enjoy having that feature, so I can turn off lights, open blinds, etc, based upon the bed occupancy.
On a side note, I'd be curious how such a sensor would handle nocturnal activities!
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I have an aquara fp2 sensor that I’m testing on my desk and I’ll soon deploy in the master bedroom. It’s mmWave and can detect up to five people in a room, with zones and status (standing, laying, walking). It should be more than enough to detect people sleeping.
Edit: fully and locally available in HA via HomeKit local.
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I have an aquara fp2 sensor that I’m testing on my desk and I’ll soon deploy in the master bedroom. It’s mmWave and can detect up to five people in a room, with zones and status (standing, laying, walking). It should be more than enough to detect people sleeping.
Edit: fully and locally available in HA via HomeKit local.
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@therealdb The zones sound interesting. So you have a zone set around your bed and if it detects someone there it considers that person laying down?
@Pabla yep, that’s the idea. I’ll have two zones to detect if it’s me or my wife.
If not in bed for 5 minutes after 7 am, consider us ready for the day and so on.--
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@Pabla yep, that’s the idea. I’ll have two zones to detect if it’s me or my wife.
If not in bed for 5 minutes after 7 am, consider us ready for the day and so on.@therealdb that's interesting and very useful, I have read about the FP2 and was impressed, didn't know it had the ability to create precise zones.. nice!
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@CatmanV2 said in Smart bed sensor:
The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....
HA! Vera abuser or abused by Vera? I know I felt abused when I switched to Home Assistant just about a year ago.
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I have an aquara fp2 sensor that I’m testing on my desk and I’ll soon deploy in the master bedroom. It’s mmWave and can detect up to five people in a room, with zones and status (standing, laying, walking). It should be more than enough to detect people sleeping.
Edit: fully and locally available in HA via HomeKit local.
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@therealdb How are you finding the FP2? Is it fast?
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@CatmanV2 said in Smart bed sensor:
@therealdb How are you finding the FP2? Is it fast?
Yep. Still on my desk, tracking me when working from home. I’ll move it to the master bedroom in the next weeks. Too busy with work atm.
