You're asking for trouble if you bought a "smart" bed that requires an internet connection to function.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
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99% of the smart stuff that exist in the market don't fundamentally need internet connectivity. A smart bed (lol) is one of them. If the corporate cared about the good, they would've went with locally managed devices.
haha, I paid $150 for my mattress and $200 for the frame. I slept like a baby during the outage. Bunch of "tech" suckers.
Are they analyzing your sleep telemetry so they can send you ads for nasal strips and melatonin?!?
Less than 2 minutes of humping and Amazon sends you Viagra overnight.
Accidentally spill water in your bed and the next thing you know you're getting adult diaper ads on every device you own for the rest of your life.
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Lol
And this is why I only buy "smart" tech that can be used offline, and then put it on a separate vlan with extremely restricted access. Screw the cloud.
Agreed. If it doesn't work with Home Assistant or requires me to use an account to use it, I'm completely not buying it.
Mr robot
Stupid bed.
Finally a bed that kills bed bugs by itself. You are welcome.
"We are going to bill you extra for the downtime service."
The fix is investing in redundant internet at house from multiple providers. Satellite+fiber and achieve 99.99999% uptime so the bed won't Crash and allow you a good night of sleep.
Because it's unacceptable to send commands directly from the phone to the bed located in the same room, they need to transit between a dozen server farms to gather the delicious telemetry
Also: local=no subscription and that's so bad
The fix is investing in redundant internet at house from multiple providers. Satellite+fiber and achieve 99.99999% uptime so the bed won't Crash and allow you a good night of sleep.
Yeah, uh... That wouldn't have helped here since it wasn't a drop in the internet on the user's side that fucked shit up; it was whatever shit is going on with Amazon's servers that make up a huge chunk of the web's backbone.
The fix would be having your phone talk directly to the bed instead of having to do anything over the internet at all. Or just having a normal fucking bed that is dumb as shit.
no but i mean that if the user internet is down, the same problems would came out
What is a smart bed? I mean it’s a bed. Are remotes too good for people?
its like a smart fridge, or a smart electric toothbrush, something that requires an internet connection, usually it connects to an app on your phone to control certain features on said appliances, which people are too lazy to do themslves. when AWS went down, apps, or sites that uses aws went on the fritz.
Anybody buying internet connected furniture is a sucker.
seen this complaining on r/mildlyinfuriating all the time, people complaining thier SMART appliances was not cooperating