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Bed Occupancy Sensor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by Practical_Plan_2560@lemmy.ml to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Anyone try to build a bed occupancy sensor integrated with Home Assistant? I've looked into load sensors but all of them seem to have pretty small weight limits (low enough to where I don't think it would even support the empty bed).

What devices/sensors have you used for this? And what does your setup look like?

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[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Turn on the lights in the bedroom based on presence sensor, but only if the bed occupancy sensor detects no one is in bed.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Turn off the lights when 2 people in bed. Turn the lights on really low when only 1 person gets up. Track time you went to bed / time in bed as a low-budget sleep tracker not tied to a big data broker, like a smart watch would be....

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yum yum

-Data_mining_bot

[–] liquefy4931@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Self-hosted. The data stays within my home- It is processed locally on my server.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You must be here from c/all. Home Assistant is a self-hosted application and stores all of its data locally on hardware you own and control. If there's data mining, its because you put it there yourself.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah as if people aren't linking it to Google and Alexa for voice commands

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

So don't do that if that's important to you. I don't. Besides, home assistant has its own local voice commands if you want them.