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[โ€“] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, even a locally controlled bed would have "not worked" (well, it's still a bed obviously, just not heating/cooling) in a power outage.

Note our household got it when it was significantly cheaper (still expensive-ish, but not nearly as bad as now) and grandfathered into being able to use it without a monthly subscription. In a bit of bad/good luck, because replacements kept leaking, we got warranty-upgraded to the current offering. So get to know how the new stuff is without having had to pay as much or maintain a monthly subscription. When we bought it, at least, they had good warranty coverage for leaks.

So I get to see how good the hardware design fundamentally is while also knowing how anti-consumer the business and software side is going.

Ultimately when/if I lose sane access to the capabilities, I'll probably start poking around to see about hacking at least the heating and cooling, since we did struggle to find a good comfortable design for such a thing before getting here. They really did at least nail the mattress pad part, and the heating/cooling is pretty good without being obtrusive. The vibration and sensors might be nice, but ultimately I don't care too much about that.

[โ€“] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Yea power outage makes sense given what it does. It's good that you got it cheaper, currently see the pods starting $2500 and the higher end is $5500, for a bed that requires a $17-27 a month subscription, and doesn't work if you lack internet is insane to me. excluding the warrenty part of it. Sad to see they downgraded their protections and quality