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Bed Occupancy Sensor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days 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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[–] FapFlop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have an Aqara FP-2 doing just this thing. It works pretty well after setting up zones. Those get pulled into Home Assistant and then you can tie those to automations to control lamps or what have you.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

I also used a mmWave sensor in the past for this, one from a youtuber. Worked well enough for my case, but it had some interruptions during the night.