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Garmin Sleep Tracker is Trash

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over 5 years ago

Is it so hard to fix the sleep tracking?

Compared to Body Energy and Stress Level, it is clearly seen when i fall asleep and when wakes up,

Please merge this 2 data fields with sleep tracking, and start giving to people the accurate values.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    It is pretty bad. Last night I fallen asleep with my watch, woke up in the middle of the night and took the watch off the wrist but my 945 happily kept recording my sleep, till I put the watch back on my wrist in the morning. How much worse this can get....

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Not sure how hard it is, definetly it does not seem to be a big priority for garmin, almost everybody that does sleep tracking does it better. Fitbit is often quoted to be clearly better, and the oura ring is praised to be the best for sleep analysis from what I read :).

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Fredderic

    My Fitbit Charge HR, 4 years ago, flawlessly tracked sleep including 15 min naps. 

    Garmin's sleep tracking is by far the worst. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Alex_WAW
    Alex_WAW said:
    Garmin's sleep tracking is by far the worst. 

    It's working great for me. Records when I go to sleep, if I wake up in the middle of the night and when I get up in the morning.  I see no difference when I compare Garmin's data with the Fitbit I use to own. Maybe the fit, size or weight difference between your Garmin and Fitbit makes one move around more than the other and that's difference?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to tess

    for one thing garmin cannot track naps, or any really any sleep outside of the pre-specified sleeping window.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Fredderic

    Nor can Garmin, Fitbit, Apple, or any other watch track REM.  In order to be in a state of REM, you must have rapid eye movement and increased brain activity.  None of this watches are capable of detecting that.  Their recorded levels are based merely on what stage the average person would normally be in based on clinical studies.  Ever individual is different and their are too many factors such as medication, alcohol consumption, etc. to be an accurate prediction.  These sleep tracking numbers are all estimations and should be taken with a grain of salt.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to tess

    I think you missed the point. What was mostly criticized was that they get the sleep time totally wrong even if they have good data for it.

    On the topic I've noticed that I might have the right time when I went to sleep and woke up, but then there is some server side handling and then the times are wrong.

    This can be seen like, after sleep open garmin connect.. look at the sleep data.. then Garmin Connect syncs... and look again the sleep time, there is 1-2h more sleep. It was more spot on before this. I don't know what the crap they do on the server side, but they should stop messing with the time.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to tess

    Well, lucky you. Hard to believe.

    In my case both 735XT and 945 perform equally bad. Fit is good enough for oHR so should be good for sleep tracking.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Alex_WAW

    Maybe these pictures help you believe Wink has been working great for me aswell.. Since ever. Always spot on when i fall asleep and wakeup. No idea about the phases obviously 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Alex_WAW
    Alex_WAW said:
    Well, lucky you

    Maybe I'm not so lucky and you're unlucky?