I had a feature request to support IDASEN and came to the same conclusion.

However, for myself (and I suspect others), I don't need yet another app to do something. I want to push a button and be finished in 1 second for something like a desk. Cognitive load on this should be zero.

Generally these devices use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for control, which has a well-defined 'schema' where devices expose 'services' which contain a number of read/write/notify 'characteristics' that are used for control. It's pretty easy to reverse engineer this stuff, I spent around two hours doing it with a sleep number adjustable bed base. Once you have the protocol of course you can just write a program to connect to the MAC address and send the commands. Another response to the parent shows that this has already been done.

On Android the free (as in money) NRF Connect application lets you browse the services/characteristics, tells you which ones are read/write/notify, and snoop+send data. I also had to use the 'Bluetooth Snoop Log' setting in Developer Options and open the log in Wireshark to sniff some of the packets that the app sent. The log contains timestamps so you can wait 10 seconds between operations to make it really easy to identify what does what. All you need in Wireshark is a filter like 'btatt.uuid128 == ff...:ff' to filter to just the characteristic you want to sniff.

They do have a button as well.

Armin Ronacher also wrote a tool[1] which lets you control this desk with the command line. I wish this desk was available in India!

[1] https://github.com/mitsuhiko/idasen-control

It is: https://www.ikea.com/in/en/p/idasen-underframe-sit-stand-f-t...

> IKEA has a new standup desk called IDÅSEN: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/idasen-desk-sit-stand-black-dar... […] If you are on the market for a standup desk with good value, pay $100 more and buy IDÅSEN instead of the Berkant desk mentioned in the Tindie campaign.

Given the prices it gets at, why not just go for a non-ikea desk e.g. a basic Jarvis is actually cheaper than that.

In many markets, the options are extremely slim to buy good alternatives. Ikea is almost everywhere - and even in countries where they are not present (I lived in two), businesses exist that can get you their products from neighbouring countries at a 20-25% markup.

When I price it out Jarvis is the same price or more expensive for the same size.

I just bought it last month and it's amazing.

Especially usually most standup desks are wobbly at their maximum height, while IDÅSEN doesn't even shake a bit.