Reverse engineering the Sense API
Published on Apr 10, 2016
Sense is a little device that sits by your bedside and, in conjunction with a little ‘pill’ attached to your pillow, monitors your sleeping patterns and any environmental conditions that might hamper them. Android and iOS apps show you your sleep history, and offer suggestions for improvements.
Sense was Kickstarted in August 2014, raising over 2.4 million US dollars, and shipped to backers in mid 2015. The campaign blurb included this snippet:
Building with Sense
You’ll always have access to your data via our API. Take it, play with it, graph it, do whatever you want with it. It’s yours. That’s important to us.
We enjoy tinkering with and building on-top of other products we like. Sense will let you have that experience.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on what you might want to build with Sense, and how you could directly interact with the hardware, and the data it collects.
Sounds great! But a year after shipping, there’s no sign of an API, and some of us who enjoy tinkering are getting a bit restless…