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Bed Occupancy Sensor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days 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 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Yum yum

-Data_mining_bot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days 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 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days 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.