Removing the Fitbit after sleep is not causing and end to sleep period

[TerryFit]

When I wake up I remove the Fitbit while I take a shower and use the bathroom... this time is being added to my sleep time and therefore gives an innacurate sleep time metric as a result.  The tracker should be able to detect the removal of the band at the end of a sleep period or there should be a way of stopping sleep monitoring before the Fitbit band is removed.

[SunsetRunner]

Sounds like you're going to have to manually set your sleep time. You can do this on your pc in your fitbit page. Just click on the sleep page and manually enter the time you went to sleep and woke up.

[TerryFit]

Thank you for the suggestion. I don't see that setting the time asleep each
day manually is an acceptable solution. The whole concept of having a
wearable tracker is that it is convenient and manually editing time as an
extra step is not.

regards

--
Terry Rimmer

[JohnRi]

After you take off your fitbit, open up the app on your phone and do a manual sync.  Or just open up the app.  Seems if I use the app at all, it knows I'm awake, and ends the sleep session.

[TerryFit]

Thank you for taking the time to try to help.  It just doesnt make sense to me to have to manually open up an app on another device just to ensure Fitbit gets a signal to tell them I am actually now awake and not in the shower!   I expected more from Fitbit than that.  Maybe there is another way?

Again thank you much appreciated.

[JohnRi · Accepted solution]

I think the problem is you have to move around for a couple of minutes after getting up in the morning.  If you just sit up, and take your tracker off, it has no way of nothing that you are active, and to end the sleep cylce.

That's why I suggested opening the app, and it would manually end the cycle. 

I don't see a way around it.  You need have to be active for a few minutes...

[Mukluk4]

How and when do you remove it?

I usually get out of bed, walk over to the dresser, and then take it off before my shower.  Never had a problem with the tracking.

[JohnRi]

I get up, climb down my stairs and let me dogs outside.  Turn on the TV, go to the bathroom....  Then I take my tracker off, and get in the shower.  I'm up a good 15 - 20 minutes before I take my tracker off.

[TerryFit]

Hi John

again appreciate your taking the timet help.  The idea of having to walk around for several minutes in order for Fitbit to then decide I am no longer asleep before I get into the shower is just not good enough. There is a simple way around this and that is for Fitbit to display an option (just like ever acivity setting, such as workout, weights, walking, run etc) that allows you to pause or finish that activity.  Then it is an activity the user can stop on the Fitbit band and not having to use another device like your PC or your smart phone to "trick" the Fitbit in order for it to record the correct end of the sleep period.

[TerryFit]

Thank you. I do pretty much the same as you. But in my case Fitbit is not treating the removal of the band (prior to me taking a shower) as the end of my sleep period.  It is not until I finish my shower etc and put the Fitbit back onto my hand and start activities that it sees that as the end of my sleep period.

[Upsie]

The walk to my bathroom seems to be enough for Fitbit to know I am no longer asleep. Then I just leave my Fitbit on the bathroom counter while I shower.

[TerryFit]

Thank you. This doesnt work for me. When I check later in the day how Fitbit recorded that sleep period it is not treating the removal of Fitbit (prior to shower) as being the end of sleep period. The Fitbit app on my phone clearly shows the time it calculates as being the end of my sleep period and that is not the time I remove the fitbit band.