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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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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I believe that's how most people do it. It works for me. You can also put two in parallel or just add a resistor across the leads to divide the resistance to make it more sensitive. If you used a potentiometer it would make it easier to adjust to hit the exact threshold.