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Stress monitoring

fuzzy50
over 4 years ago

I wear my watch as tight as I can handle but I still notice big gaps in the graph for my stress score on Garmin connect 

Is this a software issue or a hardware issue, when I first got the watch my stress score graph was continuous without any gaps

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    The watch does not measure the stress when you are active, since the values could be misleading, while influenced by the physical activity. Perhaps at the original version the threshold for the activity was set differently, or you were less active during the day - that could explain the difference.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Yes I understand what you are saying but it seems to be happening when I'm sitting still or asleep

    Take last night I have a gap of 2 hours while I was sleeping

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fuzzy50
    fuzzy50 said:
    Take last night I have a gap of 2 hours while I was sleeping

    That could be easily caused by exactly the fact you claimed at the beginning "I wear my watch as tight as I can handle". You are not supposed to. The fit should be firm, but not too tight to limit the blood circulation. In the night, especially if you are a snorer or suffer from sleep apnoea, or have a cold and obstructed breathing pathways, the hypoxia caused by it, will induce periferal vasoconstrction, limiting the blood circulation even more, which may then hinder the proper HR and/or HRV data recording.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Yes I agree with what you are saying but I still say there is some sort of software issue

    As you can see I still seem to be getting gaps

    But when I wore my older vivoactive 3 I got no gaps while sleeping 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fuzzy50

    It would be interesting to see the data from both devices for the same night. You'd need to create a second GC account for the VA, so that they could record the data both in the same time, each into its account.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    The vivoactive 3 image is from last night and the instinct solar image from the night before

    It's just strange the older VA3 seems to monitor stress better

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to fuzzy50

    I meant the very same night, so that it is sure you compare apples to apples and not to oranges. If you then have two different results for the very same night, mail it to Garmin Support, and have them create a case with it. Using data from two different night won't help them to identify the cause.

    fuzzy50 said:
    It's just strange the older VA3 seems to monitor stress better

    That's a question. Perhpas it is not better, perhaps it just interpolates the values when it cannot measure anything. Which in principle is worse tha showing no data, although it may look better.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Did you ever find a solution to this? My instinct solar has suddenly started doing the same thing