I bought some of these this weekend. The big perk? You don't need to use them as IoT devices at all. Hold one button to pair with a remote and you are done.
Unlike say the very expensive power mattress base (bad Ergotron) I bought which has sleep tracking that will only work if I reveal all my health data on my phone to their app. This includes data not collected by the mattress. It also requires you give your wifi password. They explicitly tell you they are going to sync it all to their cloud.
They basically demand the keys to the kingdom when all they should need is some basic bluetooth syncing to my phone. Obviously I did not move forward with the sleep tracking functionality.
Unlike say the very expensive power mattress base (bad Ergotron) I bought which has sleep tracking that will only work if I reveal all my health data on my phone to their app. This includes data not collected by the mattress. It also requires you give your wifi password. They explicitly tell you they are going to sync it all to their cloud.
They basically demand the keys to the kingdom when all they should need is some basic bluetooth syncing to my phone. Obviously I did not move forward with the sleep tracking functionality.