I wasn’t even aware that the bed presence sensor from Elevated Sensors was being discussed here, so the timing is a bit of a coincidence. I received the sensor a while ago but hadn’t had the time to set it up in my house since I was moving. When I finally got the chance, I noticed I couldn’t get it to be detected by the existing ESPHome app for Homey.
So I decided to build a dedicated app for the sensor, as I also don’t really like the workflow of the generalized ESPHome app. I do acknowledge the tremendous effort that went into that app, but from a usability perspective, dedicated apps provide a better experience. It also gave me the opportunity to use a more up-to-date library to communicate with the ESPHome sensor, which will hopefully result in a more stable and reliable connection and operation.
If I have the time I’ll create a dedicated topic for the app before the weekend starts.
