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1 month ago

Feature request: smart wake alarm depending on sleep cycle

Please could you looking into developing a native smart wake alarm just like FitBit has been doing since 2020.

The article below sums up the situation really well.

https://www.advnture.com/features/why-is-garmin-still-sleeping-on-smart-wake-up-alarms

Sleep is so important for any sports enthusiast and in my opinion this is litterally the missing piece of the wellness / recovery puzzle in Garmin wearables. 

kj
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  • 7 months ago

    HRV, heart beats modules etc can collect data within their respective modules where main computer is sleeping. It's extremely easy task. Note how morning report takes time to calculate - possibly it's main computer boot up and assembling information from sensors.
    Garmin is million yaers old, it's not nimble startup and possibly their software base is super old and they just didn't anticipated with continuous advance activity in the background.

    >Smart wake implies you define a timeframe of say 30min where you would like to be waken up in a light sleep; so if then it would consume more power during those 30min if it wants to be really accurate

    That indeed probably what can save a lot of energy, I don't know of course details I've just worked in some organization that has old software and some small change that looks super easy sometimes requires hundreds of hours of refactoring, I bet it's the case here.

    It's very optimistic information that they're working on it though! Perhaps one day they'll release it, wondering if it'll be a software update or will it require us to change watches.

    Btw smartbands may have different OS, they may not support installing apps, thus making OS much simpler and they can be developed with this feature in mind.

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  • 7 months ago

    HRV, heart beats modules etc can collect data within their respective modules where main computer is sleeping. It's extremely easy task. Note how morning report takes time to calculate - possibly it's main computer boot up and assembling information from sensors.
    Garmin is million yaers old, it's not nimble startup and possibly their software base is super old and they just didn't anticipated with continuous advance activity in the background.

    >Smart wake implies you define a timeframe of say 30min where you would like to be waken up in a light sleep; so if then it would consume more power during those 30min if it wants to be really accurate

    That indeed probably what can save a lot of energy, I don't know of course details I've just worked in some organization that has old software and some small change that looks super easy sometimes requires hundreds of hours of refactoring, I bet it's the case here.

    It's very optimistic information that they're working on it though! Perhaps one day they'll release it, wondering if it'll be a software update or will it require us to change watches.

    Btw smartbands may have different OS, they may not support installing apps, thus making OS much simpler and they can be developed with this feature in mind.

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  • 7 months ago in reply to 9025481

    I would be really interested if someone could share how Garmin develops software. Are they doing Scrum? Are there Product Owners? How are they gathering user feedback? Prioritize features? How old / modern is the code base really? ...