Venu 3 vs Venu 2 Sleep Tracking

Are you certain the Venu 2 was accurate (i.e,. compared it to medical sleep tracking)? Could be the Venu 3 is more accurate then the 2 is. 

I'm not sure that the Venu 2 was accurate, and yes, the Venu 3 might have superior accuracy. The immediate problem is illustrated in the following scenario. I fall asleep one night sometime around 11pm and sleep for 2 hours. Grab a midnight snack and go back to bed, falling asleep within a half an hour, say at 2:30. Now, in the morning my sleep is recorded as 2:30 am till 6:30am. I then use edit sleep times to reset the sleep start time to 11:00pm. My Venu 2 would show the data between 11:00pm and 2:30am where i could see that i actually fell asleep at 11:30pm not 11:00. My Venu 3 does not show real data, just a flat light sleep from 11:00pm to 2:30am. In fact, if i back up the start time to 9pm on the Venu 3, it does the same thing: light sleep from 9pm to 2:30am. If the Venu 3 is limiting it's data to save battery power or some other efficient reason, it's less useful to me. Anyway to request a real data dump when changing start time of sleep?

I see. I don't track sleep that closely. I get deep, light, and REM sleep in my timeline and look for trends. I hope you find something that works well for you. 

Thanks. Last night I wore my Venu 2 and made it priority in Connect. I worked well, and let me expand the bed-time and wake-up time to see and adjust the actual sleep boundaries with real data. This tells me that the software involved is not at issue. It indicates that a setting on the Venu 3 is likely. When looking though the settings on the Venu 3, there is one called (Smart data vs data every second). I've set it now to data-every-second and am hopeful that I'll get better sleep results tonight. I really do hope the Venu 3 can be used at least as well for sleep. Overall, it's a much nicer watch than the Venu 2.

Unfortunately, my theory that turning off Smart Data in favor of Every-Second-Data did not cause edit-Sleep-times to retrieve real data. I fell asleep just after 10pm last night, and woke around midnight. I had at least an hour and a half of sleep but the morning sleep record showed 12:00 am as start time. I edited bedtime to 10pm and it just extended light sleep time to 10pm, clearly not actual data. 

At this point, only Garmin can acknowledge that there is something wrong or point to a setting that makes the Venu 3 not capable of what the Venu 2 does in retrieving actual data when you edit bedtime.

How about it Garmin? Your product will be better and I will rest easier knowing I can track my weird sleep patterns!