Hi all! Thought I’d share with you fine folks one of my own home projects that I documented, so it helps you now and me in the future. I hacked in some lights and sensors into my IKEA bed, here’s the result.
I wrote up the full build on my blog here: Setting the mood with a DIY IKEA smart bed hack · Eelviny
Any feedback is appreciated, anyone else made a similar project for comparison?
Nice.
Perhaps some carefully positioned motion sensors directed at foot traffic might be a more reliable way to trigger night lights?
Or supplement the weight sensors?
I have some usb rechargeable dumb ones which are oriented on making sure you don’t stub your toe on the bed corners. I like red night lights for nightime bathroom visits as that colour is most gentle on waking eyes (I just open them up and cover the leds with red electrical tape:). It’s one of those things I haven’t bothered making smart as the dumb version works so well.
Totally agreed on the red lights! All my ceiling lights in the house have mmwave presence sensors along with RGB, so they glow a soft red when you’re walking down the corridor. That’s a blog post for another time though.
Someone over on Reddit also mentioned that they use IR sensors (not motion sensors, not sure whether they just mixed up the terminology though) pointed at where your feet would land to know if you got out of bed. Something to try for a V2.
Nice implementation… I also have presense detection on my bed and while you could not find any reason for it you nevertheless installed it. Let me give you a few ideas for automations based on it.
Alternatively, you can set up an alarm to ring only if you oversleep. Just choose a loud siren!If you want to find more ideas, just think of the things you manually do every morning and you can find a lot of them.
Given the fact that the beds from IKEA are from compressed wood, how did you deal with the temperature of the power supply and ESPHome? Some of them are running quite hot and that was always my concern…
Hope this helps
