Sleep detection outside of GC predefined sleep hours

I'd just settle for semi-accurate sleep data during my predefined sleep hours. I don't expect the REM sleep stages to be accurate since it's really just an educated guess (tho Garmin's seems significantly worse than others) but I do expect the watch to be able to tell the difference between me being awake, in a light sleep or in a deep sleep and it's just awful at that.

If I'm awake in bed futzing around on my tablet, the Garmin shows me in a light sleep for most of that time while my under-the-mattress tracker  and wrist worn FitBit trackers show me as being awake. It also shows me in a deep sleep during periods of time where it shows a high level of movement, which seems pretty unlikely during a deep sleep.

About the only thing that the Garmin's "sleep tracking" is good for is telling me when I was in or out of the bed. Pretty useless, imo!

hi, 

this is an endless discussion.

I will try to share my experience with 5X+ and 6Xpro.

I have the Normal Bed/Wake Time set between A-B (A=20:30 B=8:30)

Garmin states that will monitor the sleep in this interval.

due to some job works I have to do during the night, I try to "steal" a few hours of sleep whenever I can.

• I went in bed around 20:00  and wake up at 00:00
• after sync, Connect showed 20:00 - 00:00 as sleep - all good and promising!
• after the job done at 03:00, I went to bed.
• wake up at 09:00

My expectation is to show something like:

1. 20:00 - 00:00 sleep
2. awake 00:00 -03:00
3. sleep 03:00 - 09:00

but no, after final sync only shows the last interval 03:00- 09:00 as sleep

maybe the awake interval was too large to consider a single sleep 20:00 - 09:00 with 3 hours awake.

as long as you sleep in the interval you declare/set:

• Garmin will measure but only one long sleep interval, depending on the awake duration
  • if awake is short will be recorded as is and sleep continues.
• will adjust the beginning and the end of the sleep even are outside the interval
  • I went once to bed at 08:30 and slept till 11:30 and was recorded.

the same is with taking a nap in the afternoon. never recorded as sleep even I set Bedtime 20:30 - and waketime 20:29 (to cover 24h minus 1 min).

My feeling is Garmin considers a real sleep a continuous interval (with short awake periods)  that starts before midnight.

the good news is body-battery.... body-battery increase when taking a nap...and as well increased when that 20:00 - 00:00 not counted finally in sleep.

I still check my sleep stats but for me body-battery counts (and is acordingly as I feel myself)...

this is just me, 

robert

Garmin is just not made for day naps, just night sleep.

Ya the Connect software isn't designed to account for multiple sleep sessions in one day. As a guy who doesn't nap, that's fine for me, but I can see where it gets tricky if you work/sleep odd hours and tend to nap. It's not an issue with the watch or watch software, though, it's a restriction in the Connect app. They probably could integrate that function eventually, but maybe people just haven't been that vocal about wanting it, so it's a low priority.

On the plus side, my watch seems to track my sleep times just fine, even if those times fall outside the "sleep window" I specified in my settings. I have me sleep schedule set to 11pm-7am, and today it shows my sleep last night from 10:34pm-7:55am, which sounds about right.

You can do sleep at day! But if done, there is no tracking at night. Thats an old problem since years. Only one sleep is tracked at a day.

This irritates me, autosleep on my Apple Watch is very accurate and logs sleep without any interaction.  I do use my Apple Watch for sleep tracking and also clip to my shorts when running so I have a life line.  

I agree. Sleep tracking is terrible compared to Apple Watch (albeit through 3rd party apps)

What makes me sad is my Fenix 3 hr recorded sleep much more accurately than my Fenix 6x Sapphire ... Plus the 3 also had a option to state you went to sleep which is missing in 6. 3 detected iwas awake regardless that I chilled in bed before or after sleep, which 6 does not.  Brutall

My Fenix 6x Sapphire said I had a very deep sleep last night but my watch was laying on a desk :)))

 Sleep tracking is awful. I got awake manybtimes during the night but it doesn’t detect accurately periods awake, even if i push the light button to see what time is it!! 
I don’t really care about MDR, etc but i expected garmin to  at leastw if I’m awake or not
is there a way to edit phases, correct timeand turn light sleep time into awake?