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Sleep tracking accuracy

The sleep tracking on the Venu is waaaaay off for me. I like the watch, but the sleep analysis and accuracy makes me consider returning it. It often reports me going to sleep several hours before I actually go to bed. I've been wearing the Fitbit ionic and the Samsung Galaxy watch on my other wrist to compare and those 2 seem to be pretty spot on. The ionic is so precise I can actually use it as a diary of what happened during the night. I often have a hard time sleeping consistently and therefore wake up a lot. My awake times are reported to be around 45+- every night on the ionic and WA2 while the Venu says around 5mins. I know this is soooo wrong. Makes me question all the other details about deep sleep, light sleep and REM. Right now this part of the watch is just unusable.

Anyone with the same experience? Is a fix coming?

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0 RoNNoS over 4 years ago in reply to Hexxer

Sleep has nothing to do with the clock. Calculated on the server.

0 Hexxer over 4 years ago in reply to RoNNoS

In know. But the Hope dosent die

0 quick2run over 4 years ago

Mine seemed to work at first but after the last few Garmin updates it shows me going to sleep two to three hours after I actually do. You can edit the time but then it shows you not sleeping those hours. I used a whoop which is very accurate and knew the Garmin would not be as good but this has gotten ridiculous.

0 Robbert over 4 years ago

Former Member Can you comment on the status / priority of sleep tracking enhancements on the roadmap?

0 Hexxer over 4 years ago in reply to Robbert

i thought they wont change it because they did not understand the problem. Its since the VA3 in Beginn of 2018 (my experience).

Second thing...the Venu got only 5 Firstbeatfeatures. And Firsbeat is the gold standard in data analysis. They wont change anything. Some other Brands packing 11 or more inside for half the price.

https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-product/garmin/venu/
https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-product/garmin/forerunner-245/

0 2942507 over 4 years ago in reply to Zange

The fitbit is definitely more accurate at counting steps and they put out several updates a year ( not that they actually fix any issues!). If your last Fitbit was a Fitbit one I don't think you are in a position to compare. Do you use a Palm pilot to compare your smartphone to too?

0 2942507 over 4 years ago in reply to usmaak

The Ionic does not count steps when your arms are not moving unless you have GPS on. With GPS off it counts arm swings, with GPS on it determines steps by using GPS distance x specified stride length.

0 imagodespira over 4 years ago in reply to 2942507

Sorry, but this is not possible ;) It makes no sense to count steps with GPS only with the specified stride lengh. I also had a Ionic and it is simply wrong!

0 Hexxer over 3 years ago

I cant understand why Garmin dosent read or understand that her sleep tracker ist extremly bad. I cant find any Youtube or good test where the tracking Algorythmus is good. No matter if fenix, Venu, Vivosmart, Vivoactive and so on. Reddit, Yutobe, Tests....nothing.
Dosnet read the garmin CEOs and Bosses no bad reviews? Did they never get these reviews? Only paid reviews who are fine?

0 4757287 over 3 years ago in reply to Hexxer

I am hoping that Garmin will roll in some of the First Beat sleep tracking features to the Venu, now that they acquired First Beat.

As is, sleep tracking is really substandard. Generally, I like the Venu much better than Fitbit Versa, but the one area where Fitbit is much better is at determining when I am asleep.

Garmin is more like a primitive tracker from years ago, which counts any motionless state as "sleep," even if I am reading or watching TV.

This is a major point of weakness for Garmin.