Can there be a feature turned on for Pules Ox Alert lower than 90% similar to the Low Heart Rate alert???
Hello! I will create a feature request for you. There is no guarantee that this change will be made, but we always appreciate user feedback on how we can improve our products and your customer experience!
Would like to support this suggestion for the ability to be alerted when pulse ox reading drops below 90%. This would serve as an alert when i've rolled over on my back while sleeping and am being impacted by snoring and/or sleep apnea. A vibration alert would notify me that i need to turn back over to my side to continue sleeping with proper breathing.
Easy tech add on for a significant enhancement of the pulse ox tool.
Would like to support this suggestion for the ability to be alerted when pulse ox reading drops below 90%. This would serve as an alert when i've rolled over on my back while sleeping and am being impacted by snoring and/or sleep apnea. A vibration alert would notify me that i need to turn back over to my side to continue sleeping with proper breathing.
Easy tech add on for a significant enhancement of the pulse ox tool.
Sure thing, I will add you to this feature request!
Is there any update (or way to track) this feature request? I've just purchased a D2 Mach 1, and attempting to find this specific feature (which I assumed existed) I came across this post. This seems like a really obvious and easy addition, and for flying, almost a requirement. I know I can set altitude alerts, but that's sort of useless, as you should know and be able to keep a given altitude when you're anywhere near where oxygen levels would start to affect you. What you might not know however is your own personal susceptibility to altitude effects on your physiology, which is where the pulseox comes in. But an even better use case, is that it would be incredibly useful for being alerted to carbon monoxide leaks in the cockpit. In might lost aircraft there's only a small coloured disc that would indicate a CO leak, and when task saturated, it's perfectly possible you'd never notice it. Again however, an alert of your blood oxygen level falling (even when at low altitude) would be quite useful, allowing the pilot to ventilate the cockpit and land before becoming unconscious.
It could have been useful if the sensors were accurate, which they aren't. The readings are not reliable, and you need to hold the arm very still for some time to actually get a reading.
I realise you need to hold still for a reading, and with the watch mounted on my left hand, in the left seat of a plane, holding the yoke steady with my left hand, flying straight and level ... I don't think this is much of an issue. Besides, the watch is (by default) set up to take pulseox reading during the Fly activity, so it's attempting to do so anyway. I wouldn't want or expect an alert for a failed reading, only for a successful reading that reads low. Having said that, if it's grossly inaccurate, that's a different matter. Why do you say they're not accurate? I don't have an independent pulseox to compare to, but mine always reads in a reasonable range (95-98%), and if it were just fudged data and always reads like that, I would have thought it would be known that's a scam.
It is not a scam, but Garmin says we should not trust it for medical purposes. Some people here on the forum have compared the readings with dedicated pulseOX units on a finger, and they were not reading the same. Usually the Garmin unit fails by reading too low values.
