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Is Epix Pro (Gen 2) the best watch for sleep analysis?

ADL99
over 1 year ago

I have a Garmin Fenix 5s Sapphire with metal band. It is lousy at monitoring sleep. I love it for everything else (except maybe reporting calories burned). I wish to update to a new watch that monitors and analyses sleep much better. My research shows that the Withings ScanWatch is by far the best at sleep analysis, but it has the only one button and a tiny display. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 seems to be the next best, but has limited options in look and feel. I love the look of my Fenix 5s and I can get the Epix Pro (Gen 2) in exactly the same style. 

How are other Epix Pro (Gen 2) owners finding the sleep monitoring and analysis?

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Alan Liddle Relaxed

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    the garmin watches are sports and outdoor, which shows where the focus lies.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    The Garmin watches are good for analyzing activity. The Whoop blows the Garmin out for sleep and Recovery. I wear both.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    For me it's not working at all, detects sitting in the couch or sitting and reading in bed as sleep. I called Garmin support for it, they promised to take care of it within ten days. Let's see if they can solve this problem.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    The Epix Pro has been great for me for sleep tracking. The Fenix 6 was also excellent for me.

    I think there is a fair amount of variability by individual when it comes to sleep tracking (and wrist heart rate monitoring).

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Indianwin

    I also wear both and both work just fine for me. Very little difference.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    My partner bought me a 47mm Epix Pro Gen 2 (Sapphire edition) (really happy and thankful). I've been wearing it for 28 days now as of writing this.

    I wanted to know if the watch can automatically detect if you are sleeping, I've been reading the posts and comments here looking for answers - an answer that says "Yes it does" - but to no avail. 

    So I guess for now the watch can't detect when you are sleeping, you have to manually set it. Quite saddened and disappointed considering the very very high price point. 

    This is a very helpful feature for people with potentially irregular sleep schedule due to work (i.e. folks in the military, healthcare, science/research). I sincerely hope Garmin fix this. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4792153
    4792153 said:
    I've been reading the posts and comments here looking for answers - an answer that says "Yes it does"

    What about the two posts immediately above yours? Add my answer to the mix - It works fine for me too within the parameters of the watch. I have a sleep schedule set on different days at different time - earlier for the weekdays, later for the weekends. However, I can go to bed and settle to sleep before or after the schedule and similarly get up early or later than the schedule and it works. Granted we're probably only looking at an hour or so either side but it works. Garmin's advice is to wear the watch about 2 hours before the start of the sleep schedule to get the best outcome; I rarely take mine off.

    Where the watch, and I suspect other watches that purport to identify sleep, falls down, is for shift workers but that's a more difficult problem. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4792153

    This is no different from apple watch.

    About the only watch that does a decent job at the auto detection is Fitbit - but then its pretty rubbish at everything else and charges you for info that you get as part of your watch price with garmin. And even then check the Fitbit forum/reddits - it also has duration issues - just like garmin and every other brand.

    The issue is trying to make an agorithm to determine when you sleep fit super fit people and very unfit people - and it just doesn't work for everyone.

    Personally don't see why the watch can give a slight bump / alert and ask you if you are asleep - if no response after 2 mins it bumps again and if still no response then it correctly assumes you are asleep - that way if just vegging out on coach you can say no and it can be set not to ask for another say 15-30 mins. Fortunately I think that a lot of the wake up issues are resolved with morning report and naps (though hopefully these will get better).

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Ahoj. Spaní po nočních směnách hodinky špatně detekují. Ráno po noční vstanu nevypnul režim spánku po probuzení kolem oběda a jdu nakoupit, chodím atd do 17:00 pak jdu zase spát a po probuzení hodinky ukazují že jsem spal celý den. Když jsem byl v obchodě atd. Tak v grafu mám lehký spánek a spal jsem prý 13 hodin mistto 7 hodin. Jak to?