How can parents who have to wake several times a night to attend to their infant, record the total hours they slept on Garmin Connect? I have a fenix 5s.
Currently Garmin doesn't seem to support multiple separate sleeps per day (Fitbit does). However what you will see in the case above is a period of being "awake" which will be subtracted from the total sleep time. For example if you go to bed at 23:00 and wake up at 7:00 and tend to your baby between 1:00 and 1:30 and 3:30 and 3:30, Garmin will show you a sleep time of 7 hours, not 8.
It's a less elegant (and accurate) implementation than what Fitbit has though.
a period of being "awake" which will be subtracted from the total sleep time.
Are you sure about that? Unless something changed in Garmin Connect recently my awake periods are never subtracted from the total sleep time. The sleep time is always simply an arithmetic difference between awake time (I mean the final awake) and fall-asleep time.
Last night I slept around 23:30hrs and woke at 2:30hrs, I only managed to go back to sleep at 17:50hrs and woke again at 09:30hrs. The software (Fenix 5s) only recorded that I slept from 23:30hrs to 02:30hrs.
This is to be expected. Sleep analysis is done server-side by Garmin Connect and not on the watch. Currently the sleep detection mechanism is limited to one sleep per day.
This is to be expected. Sleep analysis is done server-side by Garmin Connect and not on the watch. Currently the sleep detection mechanism is limited to one sleep per day.
Thanks for sharing. I sure want them to consider the fact that not everyone gets uninterrupted sleep every day and hope to see them make this improvement soon.
Multiple sleep times become more and more useful as I get older. Older devices supported naps but even that was very rudimentary as it didn't autodetect and had to be set manually.
I think it would be a good thing if Garmin managed the nap. I sleep very often in two sessions of four hours and for follow-up I sleep only four hours on average :(
