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Closing comments on our documentation pages
Hello all folks! We hope this wouldn’t hurt anyone, but we have closed comments on our documentation, in an effort to centralize input from our users. Most of the interaction in the comments was directed towards us as the app developers and it was mostly questions that would qualify as support requests. We feel that […]
Shiny & new Sleep as Android
Release romance for the biggest update of the year With the latest update, we’ve begun a transition to what you might call “layman-friendly Sleep as Android”. We realize that the app is very complex and needs quite a bit of learning to use it to the full potential. We are definitely not aiming for compromise […]
Garmin addon goes open source
After too-long a struggle with what seems to be a flood of models of Garmin smartwatches, each coming with a different set of problems, we have decided to open-source the Garmin addon and watch-app code. We hope this will be the best way we can keep the Garmin integration up to date when Garmin spits […]
Sleep Phaser
A smart bedside lamp that tracks your sleep phases. Get your own Sleep Phaser now! Urbandroid Team introduces a different kind of sleep tracking device. With bedroom-friendly design and uniquely used infrared contactless sensor, sleep tracking can finally get invisible. The story behind Sleep Phaser We knew that for the best future compatibility with Sleep as Android, we have to develop our own device. Yes, Sleep as Android offers a lot of integrations with third-party hardware, but at any moment those integrations can break for reasons out of our control. Sleep tracking […]
The best of the best: Sleep as Android among 16 Android Excellence Apps of 2017
We are honored to see that Sleep as Android was selected by Google Play Store editors as one of the Android Excellence Apps of 2017. Only fifteen other apps were chosen for this award – for example Skyscanner, Runtastic, Evernote. Android Excellence Apps is a new category in Play Store, awarding the best apps of […]
Now Sleep as Android talks Mi Band 1+2 (-1S)
The genius Zdenek Horak (Tools & Mi Band) did it again. After introducing the Mi Band 2 earlier Zdenek used his BT hacking superpowers again to make even Mi Band 1.0 (Color) and Mi Band 1A (White) talk with Sleep as Android. Any firmware should be supported on those devices. So now the only stubborn Mi Band […]
Sleep as Android talks to Xiaomi Mi Band 1&2
It was a long quest. Starting with the introduction of the first version of the budget band from Xiaomi, we have been flooded with requests from you, the users of Sleep as Android, to make good use of the band. Unfortunately, there was no documented protocol which we could use and the task seemed repeatedly […]
Introducing chronotype detection
For some reason, the western civilization favors morning people with its predominant 9-to-5 job schedule. A portion of people is okay with that, a portion is extremely happy about it, and then, well, there’s the night owl. When we started our big SleepCloud study1 last year, one of the first things we wanted to find […]