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Share your experience with the Smart wake up alarm

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‎12-11-2019 20:12 - last edited on ‎12-12-2019 14:11 by Fitbit Moderator

‎12-11-2019 20:12 - last edited on ‎12-12-2019 14:11 by Fitbit Moderator

Hi, I am starting this new topic for members to post their experience with this new feature. I used it first time today. I think it s useful but it seems to have been programmed very aggressively. I set up the alarm for 5:30 and it woke me up at 5. I guess it found me in light sleep mode at 5 and woke me up. I would want it to wait until I am about to slip in deep sleep and wake me up before that. Any light sleep/REM between 5 to 5:30 would have been better than no sleep I:). I will keep using it to see how it goes. Please post your experience.

 

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‎12-12-2019 14:16 - last edited on ‎12-02-2024 05:10 by Fitbit Moderator

‎12-12-2019 14:16 - last edited on ‎12-02-2024 05:10 by Fitbit Moderator

@GTPune It's nice to see you on the Community.

It's great to see that you started a thread and you want to hear about other user's feedback regarding Smart Wake alarm. 

Smart Wake attempts to find the best time to wake you starting 30 minutes before the alarm time you set. It avoids waking you during deep sleep so you're more likely to wake up feeling refreshed. I have used the smart wake alarm, I set my alarm to wake me up at 7 and my watch woke me up at 6:45. I would advise to continue using the feature and check when it wakes you up. 

Hope other users can share their experience with this new feature 😀. 

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‎01-11-2020 06:22 - edited ‎01-11-2020 06:23

In response to SilviaFitbit

‎01-11-2020 06:22 - edited ‎01-11-2020 06:23

So far Smart Alarm has given me a variety of wake up times. The longest being 30 mins ahead and the shortest being 15 mins ahead. I have experienced an issue with it going off at the programmed time if there isn't an time appropriate in the sleep cycle.  I've had to set a second non-smart alarm for 5 mins later to make sure the Ionic wakes me at the latest required time. While I definitely haven't had any groggy awakenings, if I can't get it to reliably awaken me at the latest specified time then I'll have to stop using it.

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‎01-11-2020 13:21

In response to Rllrkat

‎01-11-2020 13:21

I normally have smart alarm set and it usually wakes me up about 20 minutes before the set time.  I have noticed it waits until I am pretty much awake and then it goes off, maybe it can be tweaked in a future firmware update?

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