AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
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The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
  • bloodfoot@programming.devEnglish
    123·
    10 days ago

    I’ll take “things that shouldn’t need an internet connection to function properly” for 800, Alex

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
    69·
    10 days ago

    Eight Sleep’s products rely on cloud connectivity to control temperature and track biometric data. When AWS went down, users lost access to the app that manages its water-cooled coils, leaving them stuck with whatever setting was last active.

    Insane oversight to design the bed (or any product like this, really) such that it can’t be adjusted without the internet.

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      10 days ago

      But then they wouldn’t be able to force customers to send them analytics to over-pattern-recognize other companies into buying from them!

      Think of all the startups that need this crucial sleep data! Why, how else would they get a more complete picture of how the launch of their product is impacting the other influential members of the tech circles‽

    • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 days ago

      My DIY floor thermostat has a 20 cent watchdog chip that requires a ping from the main MCU every 10 seconds or it will cut power to the heater.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      It’s not an oversight, they charge another $500 for the version with control buttons on it.

  • Gork@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    26·
    10 days ago

    CEO Matteo Franceschetti said, “We will work the whole night+24/7 to build an outage mode so the problem will be fixed extremely quickly.”

    I’d rather they take their time and do it right instead of vibe coding a solution lol

    But what do I know, I don’t have an Internet of Things Bed.

    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Can’t trust anybody who doesn’t build an offline only mode into their always online crap. I see a resurgence of the Luddites incoming. Get your old dot matrix printers going.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      10 days ago

      As someone who remembers what mattresses used to cost before you could buy memory foam mattresses that shipped in a small box from China, $2000 doesn’t seem that bad. My wife paid $1500 for some POS Serta mattress and box spring fron some perpetually “going out of business” mattress store when we first got together in the mid 2000s. Without checking an inflation calculator, I imagine that was the equivalent to $4k today for a lumpy mattress with springs that poked your back.

      • PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        At least it didn’t overheat and get stuck at a bad angle. You knew what you were getting into back then!

      • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Lmao man those stores. My partner and I bought one like over a decade ago from a “going out of business” place and it’s still there when we happen to be back in that area now.

  • VeryVito@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    10 days ago

    But was anybody who deserves a good night’s sleep affected by this?