Sleep Data Issues - Questions.

Morning all.

I've come across from Polar Vantage V. Initially I had an instinct solar, but the baro went mental and made elevation data broken (which is important to me as I fell run and hike as my primary workouts)... Got a Fenix 6 Pro on offer.

My sleep data was pretty accurate with the Instinct but with this Fenix, it's saying I'm awake for 2 to 3 hours in an 8 hour sleep period, which now I'll state as fact, is totally incorrect.

I slept solidly last night, felt like it was really good quality, but Garmin says otherwise.

Anyone else experienced these big chunks of 'awake' on their Fenix 6 Pros? The watch is sitting secure and snug to my wrist, no movement etc.

Cheer, Olly

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0 Jano22222 over 4 years ago

A lot about this in the forum. Garmin sleep tracking is notorious known for bad performance.New software is under rollout 13.10) and one of the things in the changelog is fix sleeptracking. Havn’t received it yet, so i can not comment on that.

0 mrhammonds over 4 years ago in reply to Jano22222

I was hoping it was maybe an issue after a recent patch or something. Don't understand how a flagship watch that costs so much can get it so wrong?

0 Jano22222 over 4 years ago in reply to mrhammonds

What software version do you have ? I hope the 13.10 is good.

0 eezytiger over 4 years ago

Right now I'm running beta 12.77 on my 6X Pro Solar. I also wear an Oura Ring. I seldom make direct comparisons between the data, but here is an example from last night.

Start and end times are close, as is waking time during the night, even a rather restless period from around 01:00 to 03:00. Sure, on the micro scale they differ, but in the big picture overall they seen close enough that I wouldn't call either one out as being incorrect. Which is more correct? I have no idea, but the correlation is good enough that I don't care.

0 Hexxer over 4 years ago in reply to eezytiger

Interessting.

0 Jano22222 over 4 years ago in reply to eezytiger

I guess the best sleeptracker is the body itself, if you wake up and feel good, ok then be happy everything ok. If you feel ***, ok try again next night. After all most of what Garmin watches tell’s us is estimates. I read some articles about the Oura ring and also something called a whoop band , regarding sleep they fall into same category, i believe that if you want this exactly you have to sleep in a lab. And one thing for sure, if it’s correct or not it don’t help you sleep better.

0 mrhammonds over 4 years ago in reply to Jano22222

I get what you're saying but I at least expect such an expensive watch to actually work though. I wasn't awake for 2 hours last night... I'm not after pinpoint accuracy, but a roughly accurate representation of my sleep would be nice.

0 Jano22222 over 4 years ago in reply to mrhammonds

Agree 100% , but so far they have not succeed with that, let’s hope ver. 13.10 bring some good news. I see some members are very happy with the sleeptracking too, but they usually happy with everything on the watch.

0 Federonic over 4 years ago

do you sleep beside someone?

0 nickk over 4 years ago in reply to mrhammonds

What version of sleep are you running? Post 12.20 "sleep widget" or the older Garmin server-based solution? How is your movement levels look like during sleep? If you had restless sleep, or your HR was elevated for any reason it could have thrown off the watch.

Historically, I think Garmin was pretty bad with phases analysis, but still fairly accurate as far as sleep vs awake was concerned. So, 2 hours straight awake time shouldn't be there.