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Please add Start/Stop sleep

2133953
over 3 years ago

Garmin, please add a feature to start and stop your sleep tracking. Only had my venu 2 for 7 nights now and 2 of which the sleep tracking stopped after I got up to pee. Even after adjusting the sleep time, it doesn’t analyze the sleep and stages so basically all the metrics for the day are garbage. Pretty annoying

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I've come with that proposition to them years ago when got my first Garmin Vivosmart device, back then there were Jawbone which you need to start when go to bed, but these days I doubt something like that would be implemented as technology have advanced and manual start of sleep tracking would be as an announcement that our algorithms doesn't work as well as others.

    Indeed, Garmin sometimes miss the time when you wake up in night or do another extreme as in your case by stopping tracking your sleep thinking that you woke up already.

    The best bet is that they will improve their tracking mechanisms further to avoid this.

    Also, have you tried to check your sleep data after few hours of waking up? As Garmin is analyzing your data on servers and can change your sleep report a few times a day usually by adding extra sleep so I have to remove it afterwards.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to sensovision

    Yeah I was hoping once I changed the wake up time that it would adjust the metrics but this didn’t happen. I agree, hopefully they can clean up the algorithm a bit because when the tracking works it’s great. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 2133953

    you can still contact Garmin support and describe your issue, I had very bad sleep tracking on my VA4 which added tons of sleep hours at the time I wasn't even in bed yet and it was adding those hours even that my sleep schedule didn't started so I contacted them and apparently there was a ticket with same issues. I was later contacted by the dev team a few times and I'm not sure whenever my sleep patterns changed or they adjusted something but although my sleep tracking is far from ideal and is lacking behind other devices I've used in my life it's still way better than it was when I originally bought the watch.

  • 0 over 3 years ago
    2133953 said:
    sleep tracking stopped after I got up

    This should not happen. My watch continues to track sleep when I get up to take our new puppy outside. It shows as awake time in my overall sleep. I would call in on this, that sounds like a problem with your unit.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Yeah, I would like to have this option as well. I read a lot in bed and the Venu 2 tracks this as sleeping.