Sleep tracking

[mcook345]

I sleep so poorly that the tracker only monitors short periods of my sleep. Can I tell my Inspire HR when I lay down and get up each day, as I could the flex?

[AlvaroFitbit]

@mcook345 Welcome! Thanks for being part of our Community! 

Let me help you with your sleep tracking. 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. In your case you could start a sleep log on your app and stop it when you wake up in the morning.

Let me know how it goes.

[mcook345]

Are you talking about setting my bed time or wake time targets, or can I
manually log the actual time I go to bed and get up each day? If so, where
do I find instructions on doing that?

[Sheylenna]

I have a similar problem the the OP unfortunately even when I tell it I'm asleep I don't think it tracks right, I also don't have the HR just the Inspire.

Last night I know I slept 3 hours that it didn't even track. This afternoon I know I slept 3 hours it didn't track. And of the 5-6 hours I had told it I was going to be sleeping for it tracked 40 min of sleep and the rest as restless sleep or awake, mostly restless. Now granted I'm sleeping in a recliner because I'm visiting my mom and non of her beds are comfortable for me but still when I sleep on my recliner at home it tracks way better than now and my recliner rocks this one doesn't. Didn't track what little sleep I got in the beds either. 

It goes from tracking to not tracking then I fiddle with it and it starts tacking again till it stops and my mind is messing with my body thinking I'm not getting enough sleep.

And the sleep tracking was one of the things I was really looking forward to when I got it.

[mcook345]

I used a Flex, and you could tell it that you were laying down, and it
would begin to track, and you could tell it when you got up, so it would
stop. I liked that feature better.

[Sheylenna]

My non HR inspire has that I think it's the + button at the top of the screen on the sleep tracker part of the app. When I use it it at least says I actually slept, sometimes the sleep tracker doesn't even activate when i don't use it.

[mcook345]

It shows my goal time to lay down and get up, but it does not force the
recording of that period for sleep, so I only show 1 hour 35 minutes of
"sleep" during that period.

[Sheylenna]

Here is a pic of the button I was talking about all it really does is tell the app that you are now going to be in bed trying to sleep from a certain time, when you start it, to when you stop it. Granted I do not have an HR but *shrugs* it's the begin sleep now one, you can also alter your sleep log so it shows from when you started to sleep to when you wake up, I can usually get a good hour or 2 of previously unrecorded sleep from just that, that is the pencil icon in the sleep log page for that night 

 aren't my sleep tracker results wonderful? 

[Sheylenna]

Query since you have an HR doesn't it pick up your heart rate? Doesn't a person's heart rate slow down when they sleep? Why should it even use movement to tell when you are asleep it should use heart rate.... weird.

[mcook345]

Found it. Thanks for the help

Mike