Does Ionic have smart wake up alarm?

[benab]

Hi all! Last year I buyed a fitbit blaze but my experience with it was not so smooth as I'd think.

A feature requested 4 years ago (YES! FOUR YEARS!) was the smart alarm, and all the community see poors replies by Moderators.. now I'm planning to change my Blaze with an Activity tracker/smartwatch that alredy has the Smart Alarm function (It wakes you up when you are in REM or light sleep stage).

So my question is, does fitbit Ionic have the smart alarm feature?

[wmchapman]

Great question @benab

There's an App for that 🙂

[N8teGee · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure that is what @benab was asking. I think what he means by smart alarm is an alarm that is dynamic and tries to wake you when you are at you lightest sleep eg. REM, or at least when it thinks you are at your lightest. The idea is that you should hopefully feel better when you get up. 

To answer your question, no the Ionic doesn't have that feature. Only a standard vibration alarm that will go off at a predefined time. 

[GySgt_Seidell]

Actually, both of the folks who responded to the original post are CORRECT!  In the settings, you can change the alarm and ALL Ionic vibrations from "NORMAL" or "STRONG", so I hope that helps those who need a little extra vibration to get up......

[benab]

Thanks man.

So, for a simple feature asked by clients for about 4 years (ignored at all) that also a Xiaomi Band has, I need to buy another smartwatch/Activity tracker.

I thought that the Pebble acquisition was a good improvement on Fitbit assets... But that was only a strategic acquisition... "If you can't beat them, buy them". 

However, thanks all for your help. 😁

[N8teGee]

I might be wrong, but I think it's the way in which fitbit tracks sleep. I'm pretty sure all of the data is analysed server side, which is how it's able to automatically track sleep. So the device itself doesn't actually know you're sleeping, that data is identified when you sync and the algorithm on the server spots the period of sleep.

Like I said I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that' how it's done. 

[rfjouben]

It sounds like you are talking about the way an app called Sleeptime works in that you set the the time you want to wake up and it wakes you up when you are in non-REM sleep as waking in REM-Sleep can leave one feeling tired from what I have ready but I am not claiming to be an expert here. I was looking up information on that feature and although the Fitbit does not do that, it is supposed to be compatible with those app. I have also read some information that this type will be available for the Ionic in the future as it works on doing more work with sleep stages as they have a doctor on staff who is working in this area and also the need to work with the FDA before they can make claims regarding this functionality.

[Fingleberries]

This is a feature that was available on the Microsoft Band 2, among other devices, where the device would be aware of your sleep state and try to wake you up gently when you are at a period of light sleep (this could be up to 30 mins before the time you set for your alarm). Essentially, you set your alarm time as the latest time you should be woken. 

By so doing, you are not yanked unceremoniously from a deep slumber into being awake and in theory are more refreshed in the morning.

I don't think that it should need any FDA approval for this, if it is not marketed as a health benefit

[Paaaw]

There is a new app available now in the app store created by a Developer made Zeraph.

It's not using the sleep cycles but the arm movement so it's pretty much the same, it's working really well.