Beddit blog

• 2012-03-22

  Beddit näyttää yksityiskohdat nukkumisympäristöstä

  Kunnollinen nukkumisympäristö on tärkeä hyvälle unelle. Liikenteen tai muiden häiriöiden aiheuttama melu huonontaa unen laatua ja vähentää syvän unen määrää. Liian valoisassa makuuhuoneessa nukahtaminen on vaikeaa, ja keväällä yhä aikaisemmin nouseva valo herättää tarpeettoman aikaisin.

  Uutena ominaisuutena Bedditissä on nyt yksityiskohtainen nukkumisympäristön tietojen esittäminen. Beddit näyttää mihin aikaan makuuhuoneessa on ollut melua ja häiritsevää valoa. Melun häiritsevyyteen vaikuttaa sen laatu, mutta yleisesti ottaen yli 40 desibelin, eli hiljaista keskustelua vastaa ääni voi vaikuttaa uneen. Beddit näyttää kunkin ajanhetken suurimman melutason, joten yksittäisetkin kovat äänet näkyvät palvelussa. Jos taas melutaso vaikuttaa olevan koko ajan koholla, voi olla syytä tarkistaa ilmastoinnin asetuksia tai ikkunan äänieristyksiä.

  

  Erityisesti keväällä ja kesällä valo voi vaikeuttaa unen saamista ja herättää turhaan aamulla. Jo yhden luxin valo on häiritsevää, joten makuuhuoneeseen kannattaa hankkia tarpeeksi pimentävät verhot. Bedditistä näet, kuinka aikaisin aurinko onkaan alkanut valaista makuuhuonettasi. Myös keinovalaistus näkyy palvelussa samalla tavalla, joten voi tarkistaa, mihin aikaan laitoitkaan yövalon pois ja yritit nukahtaa.

  

  Alamme juuri julkaista ympäristömittausten tietoja asiakkaillemme, joten jos et vielä näe niitä palvelussa, malta pari päivää! Tiedot löytyvät yön yksityiskohdista, linkin “Näytä kaikki ympäristöstä” takaa.

• 2012-02-21

  Anonymous asked: thanks a lot, I have done what you said and it is connected right now...but I can't see the signal in the tracker. I also want to get the measured data on my computer. is that possible?. And how to use the API? I am not familiar with Python, I am using matlab do you have any idea how should I do that?

  Hi,

  The sleep information will appear in the web app once you have at least one measured night.

  Our API is free to use for non-commercial use. You can find it’s documentation here. Please contact support@beddit.com if you need further help with the API!

• →

  Anonymous asked: hi, I am using my laptop which is connected to wireless internet.how to connect the Beddit device to the beddit server?

  Hello,

  Are you using Wifi or mobile broadband with your laptop? Beddit needs a Wifi or ethernet cable connection.

  To set up Wifi, connect your laptop to the Beddit device with the network cord. Then, depending on your OS, find the device from:

  • Mac: Safari > Bookmarks > Show all bookmarks > Bonjour. 
  • Windows: Start > Computer > Network 

  Open the “Beddit device setup”, enter your key code (from the bottom of the device), and add your wireless network.

  If you need further assistance, please contact support@beddit.com

• 2011-05-26

  Example code for Beddit API

  Here is an example of how to authenticate and fetch data from the Beddit API. It is written in Python language, but it should be easy to understand even if you don’t know Python. I hope this helps in getting started with our API.

  # Beddit API Example
# 
# This example program (written in Python) demonstrates how to authenticate
# and fetch sleep information via the Beddit API.
#
# Please also read the API Help page in Beddit website.

import urllib2
import json
import sys
import datetime


def get_json(url):
    """Utility function for fetching and parsing json data
    """
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    response_content = response.read()
    
    try:
        response_dict = json.loads(response_content)
    except ValueError:
        print "Invalid response:", response_content
        sys.exit()
        
    return response_dict


# You need to get these settings from Beddit. If you don't have these,
# please email hello@beddit.com to register your application.
client_id = "XXX"
client_secret = "YYY"
redirect_uri = "http://www.mysite.com/beddit_auth_handler"

# 1. Get a temporary code that you can use to get access_token.

auth_url = "https://api.beddit.com/api/oauth/authorize?\
client_id=" + client_id + "&\
redirect_uri=" + redirect_uri + "&\
response_type=code"

# If you are building a web server application, you should redirect the 
# user to the auth_url. If you are doing a desktop/mobile app, you can embed
# a web browser / or call external web browser, and after the user has
# given the permission to your app, intercept the page change and read
# code parameter from new the url.

print "Please open the following url in a web browser:", auth_url
print ""
print "After giving the permission, copy-paste the contents of \"code\" parameter in the url"

code = raw_input("code>")

# 2. Get the access token that you can use to access users information

token_url = "https://api.beddit.com/api/oauth/access_token?\
client_id=" + client_id + "&\
redirect_uri=" + redirect_uri + "&\
client_secret=" + client_secret + "&\
grant_type=code&\
code=" + code

print "Fetching access token from url", token_url
    
response = get_json(token_url)

if response.has_key("access_token"):
    access_token = response["access_token"]
else:
    print "An error occurred"
    if response.has_key("error"):
        print "Error:", response["error"]
        print "Description:", response["error_description"]
    sys.exit()

print "Access token is:", access_token

# 3. Fetch some sleep data!

start_date = datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=3)

sleep_url = "https://api.beddit.com/api/me/sleep?\
start=" + start_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") + "&\
access_token=" + access_token

print "Fetching sleep information from", sleep_url

response = get_json(sleep_url)

if len(response) > 0:
    for night in response:
        print night["date"], "slept", night["time_sleeping"], "seconds, heart rate was", night["resting_heart_rate"]
else:
    print "There was no sleep information for last 3 days"


• 2011-01-17

  Get latest heart rate, and doc improvements

  Latest Beddit update is just installed to our production server, and it comes with an interesting feature: you can now get almost-real-time heart rate events via our api.

  Here’s how it looks like:

  [

  {

      ”description”: “Persons heart rate is 57.3”, 

      ”time”: “2010-12-15T22:14:36”, 

      ”type”: “heart-rate”, 

      ”value”: 57.299999999999997

    }, 

    {

      ”description”: “Persons heart rate is 51.2”, 

      ”time”: “2010-12-15T22:14:47”, 

      ”type”: “heart-rate”, 

      ”value”: 51.200000000000003

    },

  …

  ]

  Getting heart rate results works the same way as bed exit and bed entering events. The /api/me/events was divided to /api/me/events/presence and /api/me/events/heart_rate resources. The behaviour of /api/events resource was also changed a bit. As you might expect, it now returns both events. Also, to limit the amount of data, it now only returns data from last two hours by default.

  How real-time is it? The Beddit architecture does not currently give any strict guarantees on how timely the data is. There are delays that come from transferring data to servers, and processing the data with our algorithms. However, in most cases, the data should be transferred and analyzed within a minute or two.

  While you can always get the latest events by periodically requesting the events resources, this is less than optimal. In future, we hope to support something like HTML5 Server-Sent Events (see http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/). That way, the server could push updates to clients, which can also be written easily in JavaScript (or any other programming language, of course).

  If you have any thoughts on that, please drop me a note (mikko@beddit.com).

  P.S. We also added some api documentation and examples of returned data, please see the link “API” inside the service, in page footer.

• 2010-12-03

  Hello world, we have an API

  With this first post in our developer blog, I’m happy to announce that the Beddit.com API is now available!

  

  The API lets you access the sleep information in Beddit service in machine-readable way. The API is freely available for non-commercial use.

  Sleep information and some events

  Right now, you can basically get a list of measured nights together with some summary numbers about your sleep. For any night, you can also request detailed sleep information including times of different sleep stages, and heart rate.

  In addition to sleep information, you can read bed exit and bed enter events. These are generated when the user goes to bed and when she leaves the bed.

  As the service evolves, we can add more information to the API, and also support write access where appropriate.

  OAuth2 for authentication

  We choose to use OAuth2 protocol for authentication in the API. That way, the user does not have to share her password with third-party services. Instead, the idea is that you use an access token to authenticate your requests.

  To get an access token, you have to direct the user to an authorization page, where the user can sign in to the service (if she is not already signed in) and choose whether she grants your application access to her data.

  Feedback?

  If you have feedback or questions about the API, you reach us athello@beddit.com, or you can post comments here so that others can see them, too.

  More detailed information on how to use the API is found inside the Beddit service, check “API” link in the footer of the page.