Merge multiple sleep fragments into one sleep log and score

[PeterMikl]

I am constantly being awakened in the middle of the night because I have 4-year old twins (one with autism which means his sleep cycle is all over the map). When I am awakened, I am usually moving around (taking kids to the toilet, changing night-time nappies, soothing kids with bad dreams, switching beds to better quieten a kid so the rest of the house can sleep, getting a glass of water, etc.). I also use the Surge automatic sleep recording feature to track my sleep. I don't want to have to sstart or stop recording anything manually.

On many nights, if I get up, the Surge will create multiple sleep logs. At 4am, it has done this when I have been awake for 9 minutes or more. At 7am, it has done this when I have been up for less than a minute - and yes, sometimes I go back to bed after 7am while my wife takes over after my nighttime "shift". These multiple sleep logs are inaccurate because that 9 minutes, or 1 minute, or whatever it is isn't counted as awake time.

All I need is a single command to merge the multiple logs into a single log with the gaps between logs calculated as awake time. This would solve all the display issues with multiple logs, and give me a much clearer view of my entire night. I would have a single sleep pattern graph and a single sleep log calculation.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject and labels

[Jdeclue]

BUG! This is a reproducable bug in the application! Create multiple sleep events in a day, got to an event, select the event to go to chart and then within chart select time period or drag finger across chart. The data is completely invalid!

[Yuriy]

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Requests/More-functional-sleep-data-analysis/idi-p/1195744

[lisakathryn84]

I would love the option to combine sleeps. 2 reasons. 1) I have been known on the occasion to fall asleep on the couch. I don't qualify that as a nap, so the time it takes me to wake up and head upstairs causes it to start a new sleep cycle. 2) I have 3 children. There have been many nights where I have to wake up and put them back in bed. Again, I'm not awake that long. I would really like to be able to put those times together to make one sleep cycle overnight...even if that means having an awake for 10 minutes spot. Thanks!

[oujoker]

Agreed - awake time between a threshold of sleep time should just me marked as awake and on a single log.  If sleep is more than a threshold, maybe make two entries for people who function that way.

[Calathea77]

Yes, please get this fixed.  It frequently decides you slept in more than one session even if you didn't, puts a five minute break in between, and counts them as two sessions.

[Rich_Laue]

While the sleep logs show the individual logs,  both the sleep tile on the dashboard, an the sleep graphs have the individual sleep records combined.

The problem I see is if I fall asleep at 9pm and wake at 11pm, this time is recorded as sleeping the day before for me.

[Colinm39]

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@kyleser wrote:
I have contacted the customer service regarding this issue and they have confirmed the issue.

In the Android app (not sure if the problem exists with the iPhone), the sleep log graphs ONLY account for the first sleep time frame fire the day/night. So if you were to sleep multiple times through the day, the app only shows one graph for the first time frame. This is annoying if you are trying to track your sleep patterns. However, the app does log each individual sleep time frame's but not the actual different graphs.

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@eaj I'm just documenting the same thing but I found my Android now shows the Total sleep for the day, the PC export, profile and the sleep side graph export/show the longest sleep period for the day.. It's been like this for years and no action or explanation.

[RobertoME]

Thanks for sharing your idea on this board! I support it, because it happens the same to me. It would be very practical to have all the logs in one chart only. So keep voting and supporting this idea, it might get into consideration. 

Thank you for all your participation.

[UrbanWildLifeMn]

Noticed interrupted sleep recorded to unique events during the same sleep period.

[WavyDavey]

I think there's a way to do this. When you see the split times, make note of the first time asleep, and the last time when waking up. Then delete the split sleep logs and go into log activity and create a new sleep log with the real start and stop times. It should recreate the sleep as one whole.

[Halze]

I generally go to sleep at 8 pm and finish sleeping at about 4 am. Since I'm a poor sleeper I'm sometimes awake at midnight which causes the sleep report to be divided into two parts - one before midnight and one after midnight. I'd like to be able to always get one report by providing the app with my 8 pm sleep start time.

[Rich_Laue]

The problem:

User goes to bed 20:30 on Tuesday 

Wakes up before 00:00, lets say 22:58

Falls back to sleep at 23:50 then wakes up at 06:00 on Wednesday 

When user looks at the daily sleep log the sleep at 22:30 gets merged into Tuesdays sleep since the user woke up before midnight. 

The second dleep period gets properly marked as Wednesdays sleep.

The solution would be to include the start sleep time in determining which day to merge the sleep into.

[Eagle1]

Agreed. I find it rather annoying to have to manually merge sleep tracks when I wake up multiple times during a given night.

[LizFitbit]

Hi @Rich_Laue @Eagle1 @Halze The algorithm is designed so that if there are two sleeps that are less than an hour apart, they're merged together (based on end date) and the time they're awake in between is marked as awake. If you're awake longer than an hour, it's possible then that the sleep on Tue would merge into Tuesday's sleep and not Wednesday's. I've update the title of the suggestion to reflect a broader request.

[LizFitbit]

FYI - you can manually edit sleep logs which is a work-around.

[Halze]

Hi LizFitBit,



I would like all my sleep between noon of day 1 and noon of day 2 to appear in the Fitbit app for day 2.  Actually, the separating time for me need not be noon and could be as early as 5 am and as late as 3 pm.  However, I suggest that the separating time be a user-input.



Harold Ausfresser

[cross1242]

I, too, have the problem that the Fitbit reports on sleep breaks up a night into two or three separate periods instead of one long period.  I haven't been able to figure out whether this just means that the reports are useless for me or whether there is some way to tell Fitbit to put all the periods into a single sleep event.  The report on sleep seems to cover "awake" time but it seems to break them up rather than keeping them together.  Is there some time limit which if you exceed the time that it breaks into a new sleep event rather than keeping the events together.  Some other people here say that it's a "bug" in the Fitbit system.  I'd like to know what to do because the sleep data is really useless now.

[Rraven]

My sleep tracking is often split between two days. It would be nice to be able to set a time range for sleeping, so my tracker knows this is all one sleep period. I am a restless sleeper, and thus my tracking often shows 3 hours one day and 4 hours on the next instead of 7 hours with waking periods in between.

[Julie258]

Due to restlessness, I need to edit my sleep logs into one recognizable sleep. I would like to see the ability to manipulate the dates to make it better. For example, if I go to sleep on Thurs at 10 PM, but awake at 1:00 (it's now Friday), the first part shows Thurs 10-1, but then the next part gets logged as Friday. There is no way to connect the bits of data.

[SunsetRunner]

Yes, it is still very annoying that the logs cannot be joined. For some reason I get two different logs if I fall asleep before the actual sleep time and continue to it without waking up. That then shows up as two different logs and the time slept is way off for that day.

[Rich_Laue]

If the wake period is less than an hour the sleep will be merged.

Fitbit use to take the wake up as the day off the sleep.

So if the user sleept 22:30 to ,23:59 and again from 01:00 to 6:30 then yes it would fall on two days.

[SunsetRunner]

That's not true. I have a log from 21:00-22:12 and 22:13-to whatever the wakeup time was, without a wakeup period in between and it shows as two different logs. 

[Rich_Laue]

The server in the past was made to merge sleep records that are within 1 home r.

This may be a bug in that the first sleep ended before midnight and iI would have expected it to show up on yesterday.

You previously mentioned example of "Thurs at 10 PM, but awake at 1:00 (it's now Friday), the first part shows Thurs 10-1, but then the next part gets logged as Friday"

Should have had both sleeps showing up on the same day, unlike this example.

[Tim1023]

This is one for the bad sleepers in the Fitbit Community.

If I'm having a really bad night and am up for more than an hour before going back to bed again, Fitbit tracks this as two separate sleep sessions. The awake period in the middle is just ignored. It would be great if it were possible to manually stitch these sessions together afterwards with the period in the middle shown as awake. This would help to provide a more accurate record of how much I am awake at night over time. It would be fine if this was only available via the web dashboard.

The current behaviour probably makes most sense for the majority of users, so this function should require a manual intervention by the user.

[SunsetRunner]

I sometimes wakeup during the night for an hour or so and it will split my sleeping stats.  It would be great if there was a way to merge sleeping stats 

Moderator edit: Subject for clarity.