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?

  • spitfire@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

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

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      9 months ago

      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…

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          9 months ago

          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.

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            8 months ago

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

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              8 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.