Bed Pressure Sensing

[ritchierich]

I am still very happy with @ogiewon’s Hubduino bed presence solution using FSRs. All documented here:

[Release] HubDuino Bed Occupancy/Presence Sensors

All, I have been wanting to figure out an automatic way of knowing whether or not my wife and I are in bed or not. This would allow for some additional automations, like automating Hubitat Safety Monitor arming at night, automatic path lighting in the middle of the night, notification of sleep walking, etc... This might also be useful for ensuring children are where they are supposed to be Or for knowing if elderly loved ones are following their normal routine. I have added a new Dev…

I have a heavy foam Tempur-pedic mattress and it works fine there. I had to tweak the settings to get things right and also you will see a post where I added cardboard strips on either side of the FSR to prevent the mattress from always pushing down on it.