Sleep time recalculates weird

[meresydotes]

The automatic sleep tracker is always off by at least a few minutes. It's usually not too bad and I don't mind adjusting it manually, though I do find it annoying when I'm passed out dead asleep when the alarm goes off and Blaze thinks I woke up 13 minutes before the alarm. Or, even more astounding, when it decides I woke up AFTER my morning workout.

What does bother me, though, is that, sometimes, when I adjust the in bed and awake times so that I'm in bed earlier or awake later, the total sleep time goes DOWN by a few minutes. How is that possible?!

Or sometimes, I'll adjust the time so I'm in bed for an additional 10 minutes total and the total sleep time will go UP by much more than 10 minutes. This doesn't make any sense to me.

And it could be resolved by bringing back manual sleep mode.

[Driver8666]

Start it up manually. That what I've always done.

[Rich_Laue]

@meresydotes I just played around with editing my sleep. First let me say that tracking sleep is not an exact science, second let me point out that with auto sleep it could record that the sleep started at 9:38:40 but will show as 9:38. When editing the edit will always be on the minute with zero seconds.

Whith editing or manually starting the sleep record your telling Fitbit the time you entered bed.. Fitbit will then use this as a start to calculate sleep. Whereas when auto detecting fitbit uses it's secret calculations to take an educated guess at the time the user fell asleep, and never does have a set time the body got into bed. 

To me it looks like when manually are editing fitbit uses a slightly different algorithm. 

Now to add to @Driver8666 the manual start needs to be done through the sleep screen in the app, by using the plus sign in the top right. 

[meresydotes]

I WISH I could start it up manually! That's what I always did up until Charge HR. But Blaze doesn't have that option. They should add it as a "workout." It seems there's an option in the app? There's no way I'm taking my phone to bed with me!

[Rich_Laue]

@meresydotes please read the last paragraph in the post above yours. You can still k my ally start sleep. 

[meresydotes]

@Rich_Laue Yes, I see where it says "sleep screen in the app." And I will not be bringing my phone to bed with me, so that's not a viable solution. I don't understand why fitbit removed the manual sleep mode from the device.

[Rich_Laue]

You don't bring the phone to bed, it doesn't record sleep.. The app does the same thing as the exercise tracker on the Charge, Flex, One, And Charge HR does. 

[meresydotes]

@Rich_Laue I know you're trying to be helpful, but none of those words make sense. What I'm saying is that I shouldn't have to fiddle with my phone to manually put my tracker into sleep mode; I should be able to do it on the tracker.

[Rich_Laue]

You don't need to bring the phone to bed, it doesn't record sleep.. The tracker does. The app does the same thing as the exercise tracker on the Charge, Flex, One, And Charge HR does. 

[meresydotes]

Which means that I have to fiddle with the app before bed and right when I wake up. And it's even less convenient if it's not right in the room with me. This is just not a viable solution. It's easier to just adjust the times when they're incorrect. I can do this on the website. I just wish that it didn't act so weird when I do so.

My app almost never shows the correct day anymore anyway, since I switched to the new dashboard.