Sleep tracking only records once in a 24 hour period.

[Aaron-vr]

Hi there, 

I bought my blaze on friday (4 days ago) and i LOVE it but i am having an issue with the sleep tracking. 

Im a shift worker on nightshift so i have odd sleeping patterns and my sleep can often be broken, i wear my fitbit when im asleep and it records whatever amount of time i first sleep for, but then if i wake for say 10-20 minutes it wont record again! Only once a day! Which is really frustrating because i would really like to know how much sleep im getting of a day/night.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

[FerdinandFitbit]

This is a very interesting situation. Welcome to the Community Forums @Aaron-vr 🙂

If you sleep during the day, I've never tried sleeping for more than three hours in day time to see if it will record my sleep, but keep in mind that for getting a sleep record with sleep stages, you need to have slept for at least three hours. Are you sleeping during the day at least that or is it less?

I'll be looking forward for reply.

[back_ache]

I would like to see an answer to this as I too am a shift worker.

As I work  from home whilst doing it  I sleep during my lunch break.

In the last 24hrs for example. I went to sleep at 9.30am woke at 11am went to sleep at 6pm woke at 10:50pm and worked through to 8am (whilst having a 50 minute sleep at 3.30am)

Generally the fitbit seems to be doing okay tracking my "Polyphasic" sleep but would be interested in any way to improve its recording so I may increase the amount of deepsleep I get.

[FerdinandFitbit]

Welcome to the Forums @back_ache! 🙂

Huh... I think it will be the same as I explained before. In order for you to get a report on your Sleep Stages, you need to be currently asleep for at least three hours, so if it's less than that, most likely, you will only see Sleep Patterns (time awake, time asleep and restless time).

Any other question you may have, let me know!

[back_ache]

So what's the best way to let the developers know so they can make the software work for people that have polyphastic sleep? 

[Rich_Laue]

Well humans naturally have polyphastic sleep. Your Fitbit should also record any sleep period that is over an hour, but this will display with hour sleep stages. 

Now if the wake period is less than an hour I believe Fitbit will merge the two. 

I often wake up for periods at night and usually the sleep is still recorded as such.