New Health Status feature

2381179 15 days ago

Will the sleep index generate the info for this or do I need to wear my Fenix 8 for it to populate?

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Garmin-Tracy 9 days ago +2 verified

Hello!

My Apologies, I read a document incorrectly.

The support for the Health Status feature is not compatible with the Index Sleep Monitor as of yet. The Venu 4 is the only device that is currently compatible…
DoctorCool 6 days ago in reply to nicorellius +2

Thanks nicorellius. That makes sense. I think it is a bug because if I wear my Forerunner 265 I will get health data. The ISM though reports no data. As the feature is still in beta I hope Garmin addresses…
britman959 4 days ago +2

It is so ridiculous that the ISM data doesn’t populate this new health status info since it is the same gen 5 monitor and collects all the same data as the watch. Come on Garmin.

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Great question. Wondering the same thing. Looks like the two overlap on most of the metrics. Though the health status only works if it has all the data. Not sure the ISM collects oxygen saturation.

0 5803505 12 days ago

Mine hasn't populated yet. I do realize that it is a "BETA" but still...

0 Oldpaps 12 days ago

You need a watch to get all the data, but you don't have to wear it. I use the sleep monitor constantly and keep the Fenix 8 turned on. When syncing, both are queried in Connect, and the Fenix calculates the values that the sleep monitor doesn't have – it works flawlessly.

0 nicorellius 11 days ago in reply to Oldpaps

Interesting. I have the ISM and I wear it every night, and I take my Fenix 7 Pro off and lay it right next to my phone. After some research, it seems the devices collect all the relevant data. I wonder why the health status in GC is not showing any data?

0 2381179 11 days ago in reply to nicorellius

That interesting its not populating. Be nice if Garmin can chime in on this

0 DoctorCool 11 days ago in reply to 2381179

So glad to see others asking questions about this too. I wear the ISM to bed nightly and was disappointed to not see any data populated in GC.

Tonight I will forego the ISM and wear my watch to see if the Health Status feature populates.

Agreed, would be nice to hear from Garmin if the ISM will populate this data. Especially since the primary wearable (ie the watch) will overwrite the ISM data.

0 DoctorCool 10 days ago in reply to DoctorCool

Update. I wore my 265 to bed. This morning the health status feature reported "All your metrics are in range". There were no stats given for any of the criteria though. I gather this is because the health status feature needs three or four weeks of data.

Will give the ISM a go tonight.

0 2381179 10 days ago in reply to DoctorCool

Ive been using my ISM every night and nothing yet. Doesn't the ISM use the elevate 5 sensor

0 DoctorCool 9 days ago in reply to 2381179

Garmin-Tracy Do you have any updates for this? I wore my ISM last night and the health status feature reported this morning that I need to wear my primary device for the stats to be captured. So it looks like the ISM will not work for the health status feature. Except I purchased the ISM so I would not have to wear my primary device at night. Also the ISM is capturing information, such as PulseOx, that my primary device is not.

I realize the health status feature is a currently in Beta status. So hopefully this feedback will be incorporated to the final version. Thank you.

0 Geegeek 9 days ago

according to DCRaimaker, it should come to ISM too. Probably it needs a firmware update. And since there is no beta on this device, we need to wait the next official firmware release