🛏️ eightctl — Control your sleep, from the terminal

A modern Go CLI for Eight Sleep Pods. Control power/temperature, alarms, schedules, audio, base, autopilot, travel, household, and export sleep metrics. Includes a daemon for scheduled routines.

Eight Sleep does not publish a stable public API. eightctl talks to the same undocumented cloud endpoints the mobile apps use. Default OAuth client creds are baked in (from Android APK 7.39.17), so typically you only supply email + password. Status: WIP. The code paths are implemented, but live verification is currently blocked by Eight Sleep API rate limiting on the test account.

Quickstart

# build + install
GO111MODULE=on go install github.com/steipete/eightctl/cmd/eightctl@latest

# create config (optional; flags/env also work)
mkdir -p ~/.config/eightctl
cat > ~/.config/eightctl/config.yaml <<'CFG'
email: "you@example.com"
password: "your-password"
# user_id: "optional"               # auto-resolved via /users/me
# timezone: "America/New_York"      # defaults to local
# client_id / client_secret optional # defaults to app creds
CFG
chmod 600 ~/.config/eightctl/config.yaml

# check pod state
EIGHTCTL_EMAIL=you@example.com EIGHTCTL_PASSWORD=your-password eightctl status

# set temperature level (-100..100)
eightctl temp 20

# run daemon with your YAML schedule (see docs/example-schedule.yaml)
eightctl daemon --dry-run

Command Surface

• Power & temp: on, off, temp <level>, status
• Away mode: away on|off
• Schedules & daemon: schedule list (Autopilot/smart schedule), daemon
• Alarms: alarm list|create|update|delete|snooze|dismiss|dismiss-all|vibration-test
• Temperature modes: tempmode nap on|off|extend|status, tempmode hotflash on|off|status, tempmode events
• Audio: audio tracks|categories|state|play|pause|seek|volume|pair|next, audio favorites list|add|remove
• Base: base info|angle|presets|preset-run|vibration-test
• Device: device info|peripherals|owner|warranty|online|priming-tasks|priming-schedule
• Metrics & insights: sleep day|range, presence, metrics trends|intervals|insights
• Autopilot: autopilot details|history|recap, autopilot set-level-suggestions, autopilot set-snore-mitigation
• Travel: travel trips|create-trip|delete-trip|plans|create-plan|update-plan|tasks|airport-search|flight-status
• Household: household summary|schedule|current-set|invitations|devices|users|guests
• Misc: tracks, feats, whoami, version

Use --output table|json|csv and --fields field1,field2 to shape output. --verbose enables debug logs; --quiet hides the config banner.

Configuration

Priority: flags > env vars (EIGHTCTL_*) > config file.

Key fields: email, password, optional user_id, client_id, client_secret, timezone, output, fields, verbose. The client auto-resolves user_id and device_id after authentication. Config file permissions are checked (warn if >0600).

Tooling

• Make: make fmt (gofumpt), make lint (golangci-lint), make test (go test ./...)
• CI: .github/workflows/ci.yml runs format, lint, tests.
• pnpm scripts (optional): pnpm eightctl|start|build|lint|format|test (see package.json).

Known API realities

• The API is undocumented and rate-limited; repeated logins can return 429. The client now mimics Android app headers and reuses tokens to reduce throttling, but cooldowns may still apply.
• Authentication uses the OAuth2 password grant against auth-api.8slp.net/v1/tokens with application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies. The legacy /login JSON endpoint is no longer called.
• HTTPS only; no local/Bluetooth control exposed here.
• Eight Sleep retired the temperature-schedules/routines CRUD API; schedule list now surfaces the Autopilot (smart) schedule from the smart subfield of app-api.8slp.net/v1/users/:id/temperature. metrics summary / metrics aggregate were removed because the underlying endpoints no longer exist — use metrics trends instead.
• The tz query param rejects the literal strings local / Local. The client resolves --timezone local (the default) to a real IANA zone, falling back to UTC with a warning when the system has no zoneinfo.

Prior Work / References

• Go CLI clim8: https://github.com/blacktop/clim8
• MCP server (Node/TS): https://github.com/elizabethtrykin/8sleep-mcp
• Python library pyEight: https://github.com/mezz64/pyEight
• Home Assistant integrations: https://github.com/lukas-clarke/eight_sleep and https://github.com/grantnedwards/eight-sleep
• Homebridge plugin: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge-eightsleep
• Background on the unofficial API and feature removals: https://www.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/comments/15ybfrv/eight_sleep_removed_smart_home_capabilities/