Recording a nap

[Phazoni]

I graduated from the Flex to the Charge HR to the Charge 2. With the Charge HR, when I laid down for a nap, I would press and hold the button and when I woke up, I'd press it again. Pretty much 90% of the time it would log the time as sleep.

I can't seem to find the same function with the Charge 2. Does anyone know how to do this?

[Kmransom123]

@Phazoni  Mine will automatically record a nap - as long as it is long enough for it to register. 

[JBC2]

I have found my C2 to be surprisingly accurate on sleep in the bed; it is automatic, not manual. What it hasn't caught are naps in my chair watching the LED. I have slept for 15-20 minutes two or three times and it hasn't caught it once.

[Phazoni]

My naps range from 15-30 minutes. I'm finding that these do not register. They never did on my Charge HR either without me pressing the button.

[Phazoni]

Same here JBC2. My nightime sleep is being caught well. It's these short naps that are not.

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@JBC2 wrote:

I have found my C2 to be surprisingly accurate on sleep in the bed; it is automatic, not manual. What it hasn't caught are naps in my chair watching the LED. I have slept for 15-20 minutes two or three times and it hasn't caught it once.

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[DerrickS · Accepted solution]

@JBC2 @Phazoni The Charge 2 will automatically detect naps if they are at least an hour long.

If your sleep is under a hour, I would recommend manually logging your sleep to track it. Click here for instructions on how to manually log your sleep.

Hope this helps!

[JBC2]

Thx, Derrick.  Good to know why it doesn't catch, and how you can log it.  Having a nap tile, in light of the one hour limitation, would be nice.  Day, start, stop time.  I see the addition on the dashboard, but a specific nap title would make it more intuitive for beginners like me.

[Phazoni]

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@DerrickFitbit wrote:

@JBC2 @Phazoni The Charge 2 will automatically detect naps if they are at least an hour long.

If your sleep is under a hour, I would recommend manually logging your sleep to track it. Click here for instructions on how to manually log your sleep.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks Derrick. My naps are never that long. I know how to manually add them after the fact but the way the Charge HR did it was MUCH more convenient. Please ask your programmers to give us this ability back. I really miss it.

[cjlawlor]

I took a nap for about 2 hours and my charge 2 hasn't recorded it. Wondering why it won't.....

[Zharko]

Do you happen to know why Fitbit chose to only register naps lasting at least an hour? What's the rationale behind this?

[Rich_Laue]

Probably so the server can verify tyat a person is really asleep. I have had a few 20 -30 minute naps registered when auto sleep was first released. 

[JohnnyRow]

Agreeing with what Rich said, to prevent someone keeping perfectly still, say watching TV, being considered asleep.  But I wonder if with the new sleep tech being used to measure sleep stages, it perhaps they could now tell the difference to eliminate that hour limitation.

[SunsetRunner]

I disagree. I have a charge 2, and fell asleep for almost 2 hours on the train ride in to work, and the nap was not logged.

[Josifit]

Could have something with gps tracking movement. 

[anthony_m]

Detecting sleep via heart rate and actigraphy is pretty tough, to properly track sleep you typically need an EEG device on your head (and in the lab you'll have an even more complex setup). They probably weren't able to fine-tune an algorithm that was reliable enough in detecting sleep with only 20-30 minutes of data.

[Vallerii]

When I take a nap you can use the app on your phone. Click on the moon. Then the is a + in top right corner. Click on that and you can add the time you took the nap. Or you can choose the button that's says start nap now. Then you have to stop napping too. 🙂 Hope that helps

[Scampbell18]

Will the Alta HR record naps longer than 60 minutes?  Or is it limited to sleep sessions of 3 hours or more?

[Rich_Laue]

@Scampbell18 please see @DerrickS marked solution above. it also pertains to the alta HR. The 3 hour minimum pertains to sleep stages being calculated. 

[Vallerii]

My Alta most times detects a small nap of an hour or less. You can also add it in if it misses. 

[Sweeney123]

I don't believe the charge 2 has the same feature. I've had the charge 2 as my first fitbit for a little over a year now. You can see a sleep chart on the fitbit app, but not the watch itself.