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Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by EC1 »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #46

My first instinct (being the geek that I am) upon seeing this was it looks great. And having lived in England the majority of my life, with cold houses and heating turned off at night - heated underblankets are a necessity. But as I read through the feature list, I couldn't help feel uncomfortable. Am I the only one that finds this deluge of technology into every aspect of our lives abhorrent? Every single day billio…

I used to be into tech and gadgets and all that neat stuff until I realized I spend more time setting up, customizing, and configuring it than time saved because of it. I've since just defaulted to books for entertainment, my ipod, and just my single laptop. I really don't own much else. It's kinda nice.

Most of the holes we plug with technology can be solved with growing a thicker skin. Toes cold? Tuck them in. Still cold? Get up and crank the heat.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by zyxley »

maghis wrote: post #40
zyxley wrote: post #37

This says it integrates with smart home stuff from the given companies, but how does it actually do that? What sort of features are actually available? Also, the partner logos should really be links. I have no idea what Beep or Emberlight even are.

The product is wifi and we approach integration with partners in two ways: - some products will be integrated directly to enable a very specific user experience (in particular thermostats and smart locks for now) - for other products we are integrated with IFTTT so that a user can customize even the most complicated scenario (we are also looking at other integration platforms, ideas are welcome) Aaand... ticket creat…

> in particular thermostats and smart locks for now

But what will they actually do? What are the use cases that you're looking at?

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by maghis »

wernerb wrote: post #33

This looks really cool. I wonder though if my bed would not then be dependent on your servers at some point as I consider such a product as a long-term investment. For example, can it live without the server-side aggregation? Would you consider opensourcing parts of the server to enable people to use their own servers in the long run? Would you consider adding a respectable API that follows the ideas of for example,…

It's nice that you mention because we inspired both our API and architecture to Philips Hue: the REST api is served by both our cloud servers and by the device locally.

The app connects to the unit via wi-fi when you are home, which means you can control the product even if the internet (or our service) is down.

Opensourcing a lot of our stack is part of the plan, we take a lot from OSS and we want to give back. As far as the hardware, we'll make sure it's a pleasure to hack on, remember that we have to do it every day :)

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by indlebe »

The cover itself is made entirely out of synthetic materials which has implications for quality of sleep. I love the idea but the cover portion needs to be natural fibers IMHO.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by maghis »

tempestn wrote: post #45

Dang, I just bought a dual zone heated mattress cover. Absolutely love it except for the fact that it's all manual; you can't turn it on remotely or schedule on and off times (although it automatically shuts off after a fixed 10 hours). I often go to bed later than my wife, so have to sneak in to the bedroom 15 minutes before bed to turn my side on (or leave it on unnecessarily, or get into a cold bed, defeating the…

You probably got a "SoftHeat" (made by Perfect Fit maybe?), I love them, they are really good quality. One of the problems they have is that they are not aware of the temperature and after a few hours usually get too hot and really uncomfortable. When using them I usually wake up feeling too hot and have to turn them off.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by brian_cloutier »

maghis wrote: post #53
wernerb wrote: post #33

This looks really cool. I wonder though if my bed would not then be dependent on your servers at some point as I consider such a product as a long-term investment. For example, can it live without the server-side aggregation? Would you consider opensourcing parts of the server to enable people to use their own servers in the long run? Would you consider adding a respectable API that follows the ideas of for example,…

It's nice that you mention because we inspired both our API and architecture to Philips Hue: the REST api is served by both our cloud servers and by the device locally. The app connects to the unit via wi-fi when you are home, which means you can control the product even if the internet (or our service) is down. Opensourcing a lot of our stack is part of the plan, we take a lot from OSS and we want to give back. As f…

It's a really cool idea and great job on getting this far; I think I might order one.

Does that mean both the device and your cloud have apis, or does it mean that an app which communicates only with the device can do the same things as your app which talks to both?

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by TylerE »

dangerlibrary wrote: post #48
austinlyons wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Would definitely need the "cooling" version.

It integrates with nest to control the thermostat. Beyond that ... get a lighter weight blanket?

It's a real challenge if you live somewhere warm. Even using only a sheet and with a fan blowing directly on me I still want/need colder. Here in NC it'll often be 85-90F and humid, even at night.
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