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Many years ago, I bought a bed/sleep sensor made by Withings. It worked fantastically, for about a year. Decent sleep measures, circadian aware alarm, all that.

Many years ago, I bought a bed/sleep sensor made by Withings. It worked fantastically, for about a year. Decent sleep measures, circadian aware alarm, all that. Then it just stopped working. Contacting support thought it might be the pad, and they sent me a replacement. That worked for a while longer, until it didn't. At that point, Withings had been sold to Nokia, and wasn't interested in maintaining their system anymore. I miss it. I'm sure that this system won't be able to do all the measurements the Withings one did, but thats OK. I've got a watch for that. Def. going to have to try this soon!

themaninthedark 3y ago
Just FYI, Nokia sold Withings back to the founder. They still sell the bed sensors, don't know if you would have any luck contacting them now. If you do I would be interested in knowing if they respond or not. I recently bought one of their watches and am thinking about buying a scale but I am curious about their long term support.
- teeray 3y ago
  The new bed sensors post-Nokia are even better. I gave up on the Aura one and just use the new one now.
- joostlek 3y ago
  I did put in a lot of work to make the integration with HA as nice as possible. Their API is nice and they provide it for free. I am secretly hoping they aren't becoming the next MyQ where they want to avoid it. They even recently launched their Withings+ subscription, so they are trying to bring in more revenue. Their other revenue stream (apart from selling devices) is some kind of reseller program. Let's hope they can make it sustainable so we can enjoy our devices.
- paradox460 3y ago
  This thing is probably well beyond it's warranty, and I got a decent amount of use out of it. But now I've largely moved on, and a simple switch like the op article will probably do everything I need to be fast, and let my Garmin track my sleep I can attest that the new withings scales are really nice. We've got one in the bathroom and have no complaints
  - themaninthedark 3y ago
    Thanks for letting me know about the scales, I have been eyeing one but didn't want to spend that much on something that I couldn't independently evaluate.

themaninthedark 3y ago

Just FYI, Nokia sold Withings back to the founder. They still sell the bed sensors, don't know if you would have any luck contacting them now. If you do I would be interested in knowing if they respond or not. I recently bought one of their watches and am thinking about buying a scale but I am curious about their long term support.

teeray 3y ago
The new bed sensors post-Nokia are even better. I gave up on the Aura one and just use the new one now.
joostlek 3y ago
I did put in a lot of work to make the integration with HA as nice as possible. Their API is nice and they provide it for free. I am secretly hoping they aren't becoming the next MyQ where they want to avoid it. They even recently launched their Withings+ subscription, so they are trying to bring in more revenue. Their other revenue stream (apart from selling devices) is some kind of reseller program. Let's hope they can make it sustainable so we can enjoy our devices.
paradox460 3y ago
This thing is probably well beyond it's warranty, and I got a decent amount of use out of it. But now I've largely moved on, and a simple switch like the op article will probably do everything I need to be fast, and let my Garmin track my sleep I can attest that the new withings scales are really nice. We've got one in the bathroom and have no complaints
- themaninthedark 3y ago
  Thanks for letting me know about the scales, I have been eyeing one but didn't want to spend that much on something that I couldn't independently evaluate.