Add sleep times and stages to Ace LTE

[scootley]

The Ace LTE should have sleep tracking just like many other fitbits have.
In other words it should show when the user slept and the sleep stages (Light, Deep, REM, etc)

Moderator edit: Clarified subject

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @scootley, and thanks for taking the time to share this product feedback about adding sleep times and stages to Ace LTE with us. We rely on feedback like yours to help us develop products and features that we know our community wants to see. If this product feedback receives votes from other customers and gains popularity, it will be shared internally with various teams at Fitbit. To learn more about how Fitbit decides what product feedback is developed, visit our FAQs.

You might also be interested in this other product feedback. Watch this space for status updates. In the meantime, try visiting Health & Wellness to talk with other members about all things health and fitness.

[scootley]

@LizzyFitbit , is this comment about my ideas already existing on the feedback board related to this idea about sleep tracking?

You linked to an item about heart rate, which is not the same as sleep tracking, so I'm not sure what you're referring to.  I mean, heart rate can be used as an underlying data point to do sleep tracking, but that doesn't make it the same.  The other feedback item is about actually seeing heart rate in the parent app, and this item we are commenting on here is about seeing sleep tracking data.  So those are two different requests for seeing two different kinds of data.

You also mentioned that maybe I posted multiple ideas in a single produce feedback item. Where is that? Sleep tracking is just a single idea, and the title has not been changed from what it was originally.  I don't care how you implement sleep tracking (using heart rate if you want, or not) as long as it is as accurate as any other fitbit or pixel watch device with comparable hardware/sensors.

So when you said "Please repost your other idea about using heart rate data to generate sleep stages as individual Product Feedback by clicking ‘Add Product Feedback’."... this does not make sense because I just want accurate fitbit-caliber sleep tracking, and I believe that this uses heart rate under the covers. 

For example, this page from your help center discussed the implementation:

"While you sleep, your device tracks the beat-to-beat changes in your heart rate, known as heart rate variability (HRV), which fluctuate as you transition between light sleep, deep sleep, and REM sleep stages. When you sync your device in the morning, it uses your movement and heart rate patterns to estimate your sleep cycles from the previous night."

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @scootley, thanks for your research and insights. I'd like to clarify with you that, even though you weren't asking for heart rate tracking, this data is required to generate sleep stages. This is why I shared the link so you can support it by adding your vote.

Nevertheless, I understand the confusion so I edited my reply as well as the title so it can clearly reflect your request. I appreciate the heads up and keep adding your suggestions!

[CasperN]

We have a child who struggles with insomnia and I have had him wear my Pixel Watch to bed on a few occasions in order to track his sleep data. Now he has a Fitbit Ace LTE, which (if I understand it correctly) has all of the necessary hardware to perform sleep tracking and it simply hasn't been built into the code. 

With the wealth of data available on how important quality sleep is to growing children, it is very surprising to me that this feature wasn't available day one.