A bed that connects to the internet is not a smart bed. Thats fucking stupid.
Imagine someone knows that you are sleeping because your hacked bed says so
Must we connect everything to the cloud?
Of course. My meat tenderizer connected to the internet has an accelerometer and sensors. For a small monthly subscription fee it tells me how hard I need to beat the meat, and for how long. All powered by AI for my convenience.
I, like most lemmings, object to the idea of having my bed be cloud connected ... But putting that aside, couldn't the bed just be unplugged? I don't know if that would solve the angle problem, but surely the bed needs power to generate heat.
Come on people, this is why you make cloud enabled devices that can still function offline. And why I will never buy a range with wifi (or at least never connect it if there's no dumb model available).
if i can't control it with home assistant with only LAN access, i am not buying it.
But...why? I can see cloud connectivity for some things... but a bed? The entire point is data harvesting from suckers. Internet of Shit product.
Yeah, whether or not a bed should be connected to the internet aside, internet connected appliances should still be usable without a connection.
Reminds me of an anecdote about a company that did cloud-connected toilets (for some reason?) that one user found they couldn't flush when they had an internet outage. Their technical support suggested they flushed it by filling a bucket of water at the sink to manually flush the toilet, which would've been a janky but usable solution, if the user in question didn't also happen to have cloud-connected faucets.
I once ordered an Wi-Fi-enabled automatic dog feeder because I had to attend a work thing for a few days, and I wanted a guaranteed way for my dog to get fed at a reasonable time (in case of an unreliable dog-sitter).
Coincidentally, lightning fried my modem the day before the feeder was delivered, and I discovered that the feeder is incapable of working without Internet.
So, there exists a product that is 100% dependent on the functionality of some remote servers and all of the infrastructure that connects the feeder to them, or the dog doesn't eat. Horrible design/engineering.
Wtf. How did they not at the very least build in a reasonable safe state whenever the thing gets disconnected. Something like "keep current position, disable heating" or return to flat position.
But the more pressing question is: why does a bed have an internet connection? Who does this help? And why does it NEED an internet connection? Surely a few Back-up buttons for when the service eventually goes down isn't too much to ask? Who would buy such a thing?!
Not so smart anymore eh?
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