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Hacker builds API client for water-cooled bed

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Lobsters ·

A developer created bedctl, an API client for controlling a water-cooled mattress pad. The tool allows programmatic temperature adjustments via a command-line interface. It demonstrates the growing trend of hacking consumer IoT devices for custom automation.

Meridian48 take
A clever hack, but highlights the fragmentation and lack of standard APIs in smart home devices.
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