Sunbeam Bedding 4+

My wife and I always use a bedwarmer during the winter months to take the edge off the coolness of the cotton sheets during Maryland winters, but this “connected” version is the bees knees!

Set a schedule with a temp, and override it from anywhere. If it’s set to turn off at nine but the neighbors just popped the cork in another bottle of vino, just pull up the app and set the timer to stay on another 60-90 minutes.

Built in safety feature that drops the temp to setting 4 if you don’t acknowledge a higher setting within a specific amount of time… genius. It really is a nice warmer. A great buy.

The app sort of works. It usually doesn’t update the timer. Sometimes it doesn’t lower the setting when I do it. But my main issue with it is that every time I open the app it turns off any other sounds playing on my phone. This app has no sounds. Only other apps with sounds should be configured to pause other sounds when opened. I use my phone and a Bluetooth speaker as a sound machine when my daughter is sleeping, so it is very annoying that to turn my blanket on the sound turns off and I have to go back and turn it on every time. Seems like it would be an easy fix since it never should have been designed that way to begin with.

This app, used to control our king-sized mattress pad heater, is simply terrible. Most of the functions don’t work at all, and even the basic power on/off ability only works maybe 30% of the time. The buttons in the app don’t respond. The app rarely lets us select which side of the bed to control. The timer function doesn’t work at all; I’ll set it to run for an hour and eight hours later it’s still on, with the countdown on the timer still reading an hour. Mind you, I’m operating this in a room with a strong wi-fi signal and with my phone within a few feet of the control box. The app just doesn’t work.

I’d strongly recommend not buying this product and going with a mattress pad heater from a different company. I know I won’t ever buy a Sunbeam again.