Bring more awareness to your smart home with the Elevated Sensors app for Homey.
This app adds support for the Bed Presence Sensor from Elevated Sensors, allowing you to integrate occupancy detection directly into your Homey Flows. Perfect for automations like:
Adjust thermostat schedules when you get into bed
Arm or disarm your security system
Turn off all lights when the bed becomes occupied
Trigger morning announcements when you get up
Enable pathway lighting for late-night bathroom visits
Note: This app is an independent project and is not affiliated with Elevated Sensors.
Hello Waldo, we were communicating over on Discord. I also sent you over some logs. The app is now disconnecting vs. freezing values for me. Same fix though, restart the app and everything is good again for about 1 day. I sent over some logs to you. Do you have any ides on anything I can try on my end?
Things I have done is, connected homey pro though Wi-Fi and ethernet, Put device on a IOT network with a static IP. Locked the device to the closet AP and getting good RSSI. Not sure what else to try on my end. I have been searching the internet and canāt really find a fix. I have noticed a few other posts regarding different ESP Home devices but doesnāt seem to be really common.
I had a look at the logs, and it indeed seems that the device is no longer reachable (at least not by your Homey Pro).
As I mentioned before, it appears that the device stops reporting measurements to the ESPHome Client, which in this case is the Homey app. Iāve therefore added a separate long-polling TCP ping to check whether the device is still reachable on the network by the Homey device. So when you see the ādevice unavailableā message, it indicates that Homey is unable to communicate with the bed presence sensor device.
Unfortunately, I have very limited control over the connection. However, there are still a few things I want to try, but those will have to wait for upcoming test versions of the app. I wish it was the app itself that just fails, that would have been an easier fix. For now I can only try things, in the hopes that something actually fixes it for you.
I donāt see much that you could try on your end that you havenāt tried doing already. Although, disabling 5Ghz can help for IoT devices to have a better connection,
I found the sensor was ālocked upā this morning. The pressure measurements were frozen and there was no response from the sensor. It appears that my router updated in the night and rebooted, so Iām not sure if that was the cause. I had to do a factory reset to get it back but the app page with the pressure display got rearranged and stayed that way.
Thereās a good chance it was related to your router update, though itās difficult to troubleshoot that now. The reason the capabilities are in a different order in the device view is because thatās the default order, and if I add capabilities to a device while you already have the device connected, I can only append new capabilities, so theyāve appeared at the end of the list.
When you add the device again, it will however be in the āintendedā order.
Is pressure history planned for insights? Iām wondering if it could show sleep quality by measuring movement. It appears to be sensitive enough.
My list of applications for this sensor is growing. Anywhere pressure sensing is needed, under a carpet or pet pad or sofa cushion is really pin pointing proximity and fine tuning my automations!
