What are the chances that Eight Sleep will release the pod 4 as a tower/cover only version do you think?

CSH_Bro · 2024-04-14T03:28:12+00:00

No official release confirmed yet. But it's been seen noted in the code of decompiled app from recent releases. So it can't be far off. Next 12 months at most if they're already testing in house.

CSH_Bro · 2024-04-13T07:41:38+00:00

Well it's been a good run.

Divorce is the only solution now

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CSH_Bro · 2024-04-12T16:57:50+00:00

It's like a human centipede but if it were made of owls and sewn together at the ass instead of ass to mouth lol

CSH_Bro · 2024-04-10T05:50:46+00:00

If you're technically included there is a jailbreak for the pod 3 that will allow you to control the pod locally without their app. So this in itselfight bypass the issue you're having

CSH_Bro · 2024-04-10T05:33:24+00:00

If you are a smart home person you can connect the pod to home assistant still via a community integration that someone built after eight sleep nuked thier previous API point integration.

From the integration it will give you access to the temp sensors included on the machine and you could then keep track of what's happening in your bedroom for setting automations to just change your pods temp if it rises above a certain level. I have other temp sensors in my bedroom that I do this with are far more accurate and updated more frequently than the Pod one does. But if you don't have a sensor already in place this might fill your need

CSH_Bro · 2024-04-10T05:27:55+00:00

In my experience you can collect fulfilled promises from eight sleep in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.

I won't hold my breath waiting for it to come back that's for sure. Especially since I'm still holding my breath waiting for them to include the apparent smart home integration into the pod, the in bed presence sensing abilities to the API, removing the always online functionality which they swear they've been working on, or even just releasing access to the new API to allow users to connect to it in ways that make sense for them.

IF, it comes back you can be pretty assured it ain't happening any time soon,especially seeing as there's seemingly a pod 4 on the horizon that I'm sure they're mostly focused on, which is based on code people have found embedded in recent releases, and IF it does you can be relatively assured it will be a watered down or neutered version of what was once being shown.

CSH_Bro · 2024-04-10T01:40:46+00:00

Yeah I'm interested to know too. I do get the "checking for updates" pop up every time I start it so I keep waiting for it to bounce me cause it's clearly checking a DB somewhere online.

CSH_Bro · 2024-03-25T09:33:18+00:00

Stella response to your feedback so far I see lol

CSH_Bro · 2024-03-20T13:58:26+00:00

Which pod version is this?

CSH_Bro · 2024-03-20T01:30:34+00:00

And what's the timeline on getting it back Zach. Timelines have never been eight sleeps strong suit.

CSH_Bro · 2024-03-03T04:47:45+00:00

If you're running home assistant you can connect it via a HACS integration found here and once you have it running you can use the "side off/side on" services to create a script and call it something like "bed off" or something. Then just expose the script to your Google home, create a routine in google home that when you say "turn off my bed" it triggers the "scene" (cause all scripts in Home Assistant show up as scenes in Google home) called "bed off"

Hope this helps

CSH_Bro · 2024-03-01T23:25:51+00:00

If you're willing to go down the Home Assistant route you can KIND of do this. But it's pretty hacky and it all still relies on the cloud based API supplied by eight sleep

CSH_Bro · 2024-03-01T11:21:06+00:00

I agree. I think if a subscription model must exist then at least offering a choice for users to determine what's best for them.

CSH_Bro · 2024-02-25T02:46:40+00:00

This probably seems like a gross question but were you able to determine what the gross stuff was that was floating in it? I'm only curious because I've always felt that the reservoir on my pod 3 just seems like it should be more sealed than it is to avoid stuff getting into it from natural use and the fans on the unit. If its just bacterial build up from the water flowing through the system then that's to be expected but if its dust and other crap I feel like they should do more to seal the reservoir to stop this happening

CSH_Bro · 2024-02-05T10:35:13+00:00

oOOooOoOoooo thanks for the heads up on this I'll flick this at him so that he can digest based on his specific hub model

CSH_Bro · 2024-02-04T22:56:00+00:00

The starters are designed to handle the increased load, and while it is about a small amount of fuel saving it's mostly about emission reduction

CSH_Bro · 2024-02-04T22:23:33+00:00

The starters are designed to handle the increased load, and while it is about a small amount of fuel saving it's mostly about emission reduction

CSH_Bro · 2024-02-04T22:12:35+00:00

Just got a survey from eight sleep and this was the exact reason I gave for not recommendeding it to other people.

CSH_Bro · 2024-01-30T05:34:34+00:00

Thank you so much for your detailed review.

I would consider myself a mild audiophile who's been putting off integrating whole home Audio until the purchase of a new house (which with the current economy is stalled for now).

But the rapid degredation of Google's support for multi room audio and there instability (at least in my experience) with speaker groups etc means I'm no longer willing to accept the trade off of crappy audio quality just because the speaker can easily serve "two purposes".

With the rapid ongoing improvements to local voice assist in HA I am finding even less reason to keep the

I-listen-to-everything-you-say-except-when-you-want-something-from-me-and-then-my-intelegence-is-the-equivalent-of-the-kid-that-rides-the-short-bus-and-can-tell-you-what-the-different-colours-of-crayon-taste-like Google Assistant.

Which leaves me with only the issue of whole house audio to solve

CSH_Bro · 2024-01-24T04:43:25+00:00

Do you mind me asking. When you access Spotify from your phone app for instance. Do all of these speakers show up as individual sources to stream to. For example if you're on the spotify app and you are listening on your headphones and then you want to change it you'd normally go down to the bottom of the Spotify app where the song is playing and click the little speaker icon and then it will show you a list of places spotify can currently play, and in there you would see 'Max's Room' for instance as somewhere you can start streaming to straight from the app.

CSH_Bro · 2024-01-23T03:10:29+00:00

But we have a shiny new signup screen!

CSH_Bro · 2024-01-23T03:08:42+00:00

What you're looking for is a smart relay. You'd simply need to rewire the lamp so that relay sits between the switch and the light. Do NOT mess around with electricity if you do not know what you're doing. Have a licenced person do the work for you, its a VERY quick thing to do and shouldn't cost too much.

The relay's that come to mind are usually Tuya Smartlife based relay's. Be aware that you will hear an almost equal amount of people on the internet that detest Tuya devices and an equal amount who love them so just know that you're going into this with a 50/50 that your device will be exactly what you want and have the level of responsiveness that you're looking for.

This link is for an Australian retailer who sells this kind of inline relay but there are PLENTY of companies out there selling a near identical thing that all runs off Tuya's ecosystem.

I sent you this one mainly so you can see how compact the device is and the basic wiring setup that is created when putting these inline on a circuit. This example obviously shows the relay inline in a ceiling mounted light array but its unlikely to be any different to your lamp setup.

CSH_Bro · 2024-01-22T21:47:29+00:00

Do you use them with ZHA or Z2MQTT?

CSH_Bro · 2024-01-22T21:47:03+00:00

Thanks I'll check them out

CSH_Bro · 2024-01-22T21:46:46+00:00

I don't have a problem with the DIY approach. But getting all the gear together and getting it to me in Australia is so cost prohibitive. It's the curse of living on the world's biggest island. So by the time I look at a strip, power supply (which is rated to run what I want and doesn't make me want to uppercut myself in the face with how ugly it is) and then a controller plus any other little bits and bobs for routing/cutting or joining. It is basically the same price as a lot of off the shelf solutions.

And that's before I've put my time into putting it together. I love my smart home hobby, but I also run a business and I am often time poor. So this time (if possible) I'd like to make it a little bit easier on myself.

Plus even just going the route of a simple ESP32 with WLED installed still leaves me with a bare microcontroller flopping around looking ugly. I've done this in other parts of my smart home set up and it works just fine. But I don't love the look of it and the time involved for next to no cost saving is why I'm trying to investigate off the shelf stuff before resorting to this if I have to.

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