Recording broken sleep patterns

[Libralady72]

I haven't been able to figure out how to record my broken sleep time

[AlvaroFitbit]

@Libralady72 A warm welcome to our Community!

Let me help you with your sleep records. I am not sure what do you mean about broken sleep time? Does this means that you usually get up during the night? You sleep in short intervals? Your device will start recording sleep after it detects an hour of inactivity. If you have a light sleep or move too much then this may difficult your sleep detection. Additionally you can try wearing your device on your non dominant hand to decrease the amount of movement it is subjected to. Finally you can restart your device. You can also manually log your sleep time. You can read more about sleep detection here.

Let me know how it goes.

[Libralady72]

I usually sleep from 10p.m. to 2 or 3 in the morning. Then I'm awake till
around 4:30 and then can go back to sleep till 5:30 a.m. or 6. It records
the first sleep and that's the one they give me credit for. The second
part doesn't get credited. So I found a way to handle it by manually
adding it to my first sleep pattern. So I'm okay with that. Thank you.

Linda

[SunsetRunner]

I had the same issue last night. I did not get up or have restless time.  My sleep was recorded as a long block from 2210-2353, then did not start recording again until 0116-0616.  I wasn't not awake during 2353 to 0116. My fitbit was in the same place on my wrist as other nights that recorded properly.   All I can think is my metabolism was in overdrive causing my low heart rate to be higher than a normal low for sleep. I don't want to think that this model is being phased out on purpose by causing wonky recordings.   

[NeedSleep10]

I often wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble going back to sleep, a situation I understand is common.  But I do usually go back to sleep, for another long stretch.

60% of all nights, I sleep for 3-6 hours, then wake completely up.  I don't function during the day well without at least 7 hours, prefer 7 and a half to 8 hours.  But I know I will want be able to go back to bed after a while, so I stay up 30 to 90 minutes (average about 45 minutes), and then go back to bed.  My fitbit almost never puts the two sleeping periods together so that I have good stats on REM and deep sleep for the night, as I desire.  Actually, most of the time I can't even see any information on the "2nd sleep."  The REM and deep sleep stats are the main reason I use the fitbit.

I was told by one customer support representative that if I was awake for more than 15 minutes, the fitbit would assume I was up for the day.  Well, I'm essentially never ready to go back to be within 15 minutes.  Then another tech support person told me that I would have to sleep 3 hours consecutively to have the 2nd sleep be seen by the fitbit as part of my night's sleep.  I usually sleep close to 5 hours before I wake up, and can't usually manage 3 more hours during my second sleep.

I would like to see fitbit come up with a better algorithm or approach to this problem.  I can think of a few, depending on how "broken" the sleep of the user is allowed to be, but I can see that the issue is complicated (what to do with people with REALLY odd sleep patterns?).  A simple solution that might fit me, and perhaps many others in my situation would be to lessen the requirement for a 3-hour long second sleep to one and a half (or two) hours, and increase the possible "awake" period between sleep periods to an hour (or an hour and a half).

[Kiernla]

I've got an Inspire 2, same issue. I often fall asleep for an hour or so relatively early in the evening when putting my child to bed, then get up for a while (usually 1-2 hours) before returning to my own bed for my main sleep session. I've been adjusting my logged bedtime to account for this but it messes with my sleep score - doing this caused it to drop 6 points while logging an additional 1.5 hours of sleep last night! Advice would be appreciated.