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

[GaryNoodle]

Thank you.
I did as requested.
I was unaware that all the devices use the same algorithm for sleep
assessment.
Hence the Charge 5-specific request
Gary

[Rich_Laue]

If you are awake for less than an hour, fitbit will merge the data. 

Over an hour, fitbit treats it as seperate sleep periods. 

Some users do want itutgis way, while others would also like these merged. For me, since I am not sleeping I don't want them merged.. However the total sleep time is recorded on the home screen. 

[tcat007]

My Charge 5 always gets sleep right.  My wife's Luxe has 2 separate logs at least twice a week.  If you delete one and modify the other, the one you deleted doesn't recall the lost data even after resync, it should.  Or you should be able to modify one, then delete the other before saving, then save.  Many ways to do this, it's just a software fix. Please fix for light sleepers!

(It does not auto-merge if awake less than an hour!)

[Filosophical]

Today I caught my fit bit red handed.
I slept for an hour before midnight, this showed as my only sleep when I woke from my post-midnight sleep. Minutes later the 2nd sleep appeared and the 1st sleep was erased. Adding it manually had no effect, wasn't saved. You need to be able to set sleep windows and combine multiple sleeps within those windows

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @Filosophical, thanks for sharing this product feedback about merging multiple sleep logs into a single one with us. Because this idea was already requested in this board, I’ve moved your post here. This will help us to make sure the product feedback shared here doesn't get confused, or split a popular vote. Please click on the thumbs-up to show your support.

[RaeChi]

I typically sleep in two parts eg 8-11pm and 3-6am due to insomnia.  The Fitbit charge is the only device I have found that tracks this accurately but it is somewhat useless as it can’t put the data together as a night’s sleep.  I would like to take my dr a timeline chart of my sleep/wake times but this is currently impossible as it only displays one of the sleeps.  Even if I power sync to Apple health only one sleep pulls through. 

I also get two separate sleep scores (or only one covering one part if one sleep was too short to count).  Which is meaningless.  And my sleep totals are also often wrong as my first sleep may or may not cross midnight so sometimes I see a night of 3 hours then a night of 9 hours when actually it was 2 nights of 6 but Fitbit has counted 3 sleeps as one night and only 1 as the other not 2 each night.  How can something so clever be so stupid?
 I would sign up to sleep labs but don’t have the option.  I’d be happy to set options eg a range of times in which to count sleep as overnight (for me this would be anything running past 6pm or starting before 10am) or a cutoff time (for me I’d say sleep starting after midday counts towards the coming night) or even to manually tag each sleep as to which night it belongs to.  Just let me get the data back out again!  I currently have premium membership but there will be no point paying to extend this if I can’t see meaningful data.

[GaryNoodle]

Sometimes my Charge 5 puts sleep segments together and sometimes not.
Because it's the need to urinate, not insomnia, that wakes me, I find that
if I move slow, keep the lights low, and get back into bed immediately, I
get the full night's sleep recorded, rather than the first or second half
only.

[agoakers]

I often wake in the middle of the night and find that the Fitbit only records one sleep session per night. Please record all sleep session, even short ones.

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @agoakers, we wanted to let you know that the ideas you recently posted already exist on the Product Feedback Board. You can see them here where you can add your vote to those existing product feedback:

• Merge multiple sleep fragments into one sleep log and score
• Option to track short naps to see analysis

Please try to make sure you only post one idea per product feedback, so we can keep the board organized, easily searchable and see which idea other members are voting for. Thanks for participating in Product Feedback.

[tcat007]

What good are suggestions when they are ignored?  Merging sleep segments has been asked for more than a year (or 2), and it's still a PITA.  You have to edit one to shorten it to 11 minutes, then edit the other to show correct segment.  This doesn't seem to accurately log what actually happened.  Not much of an issue with my C5, but my wife's Luxe has 2 segments almost every night (and she snores all night, so I know there are no 1 hour gaps).

On a positive note, my Charge 5 is still working! Yes battery when from 9-10 days to 5-6 days, but still does what it's meant to.  Had a sleep score of 93 last night, I've never seen that!