Smart alarm app (sleep data reader)

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi,
It would be awesome if somebody could create an app for 235 and other watches that wakes you upp, but not when you are in deep sleep.

The program would have to analyze sleep as it should calculate or understand when to wake you so that a)you do not wake up "late" b) you are not awoken when you are in deep sleep.

Eg. Wake up 6:00am the watch "knows" you have been in deep sleep at 5:30 and are likely again deep sleeping at 6... so it wakes you 5:55 when you are in light sleep

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DimitrisGiannopoulos over 9 years ago

This would be a brilliant feature to have, if it could be implemented. I don't think the watch exposes sleep or acceleration data to the developers.

Former Member over 9 years ago

Man. I do not know if the do or not... a shame if not.
I have had this in my mobile but I am not so keen on sleeping with Phone under bed.

flocsy🤠 over 3 years ago

Garmin just opened a ticket about my feature-request to add sleep related data to the SDK, please go and up-vote it: forums.garmin.com/.../feature-request-add-sleep-data-to-the-sdk

jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Note that for something like this, if it happens, it would take time, as it's not just CIQ, but the firmware needs to expose it to CIQ. If I said it could take a year, I'd be optimistic. It's taken much longer for things that are coming in 4.1.1 like body battery, stress, sunrise/sunset, and recovery time.

And many devices don't have native sleep info, and it's done on a server.

flocsy🤠 over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

We'll see. At least it looks they're planning to add it, because they opened a ticket for it. I don't know how the garmin apps are compiled (if they use some special CIQ version that exposes them some things that we don't see in the regular CIQ SDK, or if they can directly use some HW calls) but I hope this is not a very complicated issue to add, as it is already there on the built-in widgets. I'm not asking it to be added to a watch that doesn't have this info already, just to expose the tata that is seemingly already there and reachable by the Garmin widget to the regular CIQ.

jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Native apps are not written in CIQ. They can do many things that can't be done in CIQ.

Adding sleep data would be complex on a few levels and I base than on doing CIQ apps since 2015.

Aslam over 3 years ago

At present, someone could develop an app that wakes you up at a certain body battery % using the new Forerunner 245/745/945 /Fenix 6/7 body battery APIs? I am guessing there is no interest in using these new APIs because they are not available on the cheaper watches?

flocsy🤠 over 3 years ago in reply to Aslam

I'm working on that :)