@SunsetRunner you should not call it rubbish simply because you don't take the time to make it work for you... I didn't reply to @TeriMa because she already returned her Versa, so then further help is pretty much without point.
@SunsetRunnerwrites "The code doesn't seem to learn any patterns the user may exhibit and consequently makes the same mistakes night after night." -- you don't explain this in more detail, so no idea what you are thinking off. It is correct that it doesn't have any superduper-AI at the backend. All it does is
- try to detect when you go to sleep
- try to detect when you definitively are not at sleep anymore
- try to infer your sleepstage (deep, awake or rem) based on movements
When motions are inconclusive it defaults back to basic sleep pattern without sleep stages.
That the code has no AI (your "doesn't seem to learn") doesn't make it rubbish does it? For me it works very well.
It 'chains' together several periods of sleep per day, not just the big chunk of sleep at night and that's all.
@TeriMa I actually assumed that in your last reply you were referring to me and not Den55, but anyways. Although you already returned the Versa and maybe don't care anymore I will still use the opportunity to answer some of the things that you raise:
"How are you supposed to check your HR if you are sleeping. " --- this is a strange question to ask, maybe you missed some of the workings (as @SunsetRunner who then calls the product rubbish). Why would you want to check your HR when you are asleep is beyond me. HR is recorded continously at all times (as long as you wearing the tracker and it gets a HR value of course). So the fact that you ask this means you are off-track. But lets continue...
"Mine tracks one to three hours at a time but never the full sleep time." -- not entirely sure what you mean? Did you get sleep stages, or just basic sleep. You probably got several sleep results that were 'interrupted' and what you WANT to see is a like a continous sleep data covering also the break-periods when you are not asleep?? I am guessing this since you also wrote : " I don't sleep 3 hours solid at a time, which is why I wanted to track my sleep patterns to see why I wake up exhausted. I can't track it if there are parameters that won't allow me to use a solid time period (10pm to 6am) and track that. " --- So what you complain about is that it splits up your sleep data in individual segments instead of keeping it as a solid single sleep, EVEN if you have (apparently) large gaps, or just short sleeps. Is that sort of correct? Or am I missing something.
You know, the sleep tracking on your tracker is not a medical-level of sleep monitoring. There is even no indication on how accurate the sleep stages are (if you got them). The idea is probably that a little awake and deep asleep are easy and thus everything else is probably REM. Hmmmm... Still it does a good job for most people.
If you have disproportionate amount of non-sleep periods (the red parts, or just no sleep data for a given time), make sure that you have set sleep tracking to low sensitivity. It may mean that while you are actually asleep you move your arms more than average. It's a little tricky and may need some experimentation. Mabe you need to tighte the band a little bit more.... I appreciate if you say "what the heck, not worth my time and money".
When the fitbit things you are definitively not at sleep, there is no equivalent sleep stage and hence it slips up the sleep data. I have no idea what you want fitbit to show you for those periods. But from a fitbit perspective there is nothing - it thinks you are fully awake.
I know you have returned it already but I do hope you appreciate some feedback from another user....
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