Is there anyway planned by Garmin to fix the sleep tracking system? I personally would rather have the option of turning off "Normal Sleeping Times" and I will manually set my device to sleep mode each night or manually enter the times i slept. This wouldn't be a that difficult to alter.
Thanks
"I seem to be having some issues with the sleep tracking as I'm a shift worker and my sleep patterns are highly variable.
Best way to highlight my issues is to give an example, slightly simplified: (default bed time is set to 0000hrs to 0800hrs and I use the buttons on my watch to set sleep on/off to get actual values)
Monday I changed over from day to night shifts - woke up at 0800hrs after 7 hours sleep, had a 3 hour nap in the afternoon -> sleep page for that day shows 7h sleep + 3h nap = 10h... so far, so good
Tuesday I got home from work and ended up sleeping from 1200hrs till 2000hrs -> sleep page for that day shows 8h sleep (default bedtime 0000hrs to 0800hrs) + 8h nap (watch sleep on/off period 1200hrs to 2000hrs) = 16h -> it thinks I've had two 8 hour sleeps... obviously wrong, so I corrected my actual hours asleep to match reality... it still shows 16 hours sleep... except now it's counting the same 8 hour period twice rather than two separate 8 hour periods like it was before... likely because it's still deciding the button press period is a nap, not sleep time so won't override it with the manual setting.
Not winning here, so I set the sleep time to 00:00hrs - 00:00hrs -> sleep shows as 0h, nap as 8h... not ideal, but I can live with that.... except when I view the sleep trend, it only shows "sleep" not total, so looks like I didn't sleep that day... at the end of this run of nightshifts, it's going to look like I haven't slept in 4 nights.
I accept that my situation is more complex to handle/code for, but shift workers aren't exactly rare, and honestly, sleep tracking/trending is going to be more helpful to us than it is to people who work 8am - 5pm Monday to Friday and have a fairly steady bedtime. It looks like the fix would be relatively simple... there currently is some criteria being triggered that excludes my button presses for sleep on/off on the watch from being counted as sleep time and forcing it into nap time instead... likely because it falls totally outside the default bedtime.... I can kind of see why this is happening under normal circumstances, but when i update my actual sleep time, if it overlaps, it needs to realise and flip the nap back to sleep to avoid double counting."