How well does it function as a sleep tracker?
1633496
When in sleep mode; small or short movements are recorded as restless, continued movements and steps are counted as awake, you'll get a chart showing the times for each and how long it lasted
1633497
It won't track it like a sleep study, but it will tell you when you were restless and how many times you woke up during the night. It actually is pretty useful.
1633498
I feel the sleep tracker is fairly accurate. It will give tell you a total time in bed, time asleep, minutes to fall asleep, times awakened. It gives this tired mommy of 4 littles some justification that I really don't get a lot of sleep sometimes.
1633499
I have tested it against the Withings Pulse O2 and the app Sleep Cycle and my conclusion is that it is rather poor in recording sleep. I have encountered several issues. The the fitbit App is minimal, you'll see a few thin lines to indicate that you were in light sleep or awake. There is no further detail as fitbit wants you to subscribe for more indepth analysis. And more than once the tracker does not really seem to record anything (once or twice per week). So overall I am rather disappointed about this beautifully shaped gadget.
1633500
It actually does pretty well. If you lie real still it may read that as asleep time. I'm happy with the way the sleep function works overall.
459254
Actually pretty dang impressive. It has bios based sleep rather than using hibernate. Shut the lid and go back a week later with some charge left. Constant use I get maybe five six hours, but I have it set to max performance as I am developing on it.
1643380
This particular Fitbit will not track calories when not moving. It is primarily a pedometer. Fitbit does have other gizmos that can measure you when you are sleeping.
1844768
It can put the unit to sleep and control the volume. Simple but surprising I find myself using it a lot
776735
You should probably hound customer support, but also understand that this is an unusual question so it might take them some time to get an answer for you. I would assume that it uses a combination of the motion sensor and possibly skin temperature to figure out if you are sleeping, because when I lay perfectly still it doesn't log me as sleeping but lying down. I'm guessing that no (or very little) movement + lower skin temperature (our temperature drops when we fall asleep) is what the device uses to gauge sleep vs lying down. But like I said totally a guess bud.
1994860
Hi Mike, we don't currently have that feature but we get a lot of requests for it and we're definitely aware that it would fit well with our Advanced Sleep Analysis. Thanks!
1600413
No, you have to hold the trigger to read temperature. It won't just track it for you while you sleep.
430466
We use a summer infant slumber buddy that plays music for 30 minutes or so when our baby is going to sleep & the peep mode still works. I was skeptical it would work because the music is not that quiet & not as constant as white noise but it works just fine; the monitor goes dark & quiet like it's supposed to after a minute & only pops back on if she cries. Quite impressive actually!
1298937
I think it depends on the type if sleeper that you are. I sleep on my back. Mine stays on all night with no problem. If it is connected, yes it can be used for an alarm. I hope this helps!
1847062
Yes, just set the Sleep Mode, it counts down from 90 minutes, etc.. Please read the manual!
48702
I only use the device for exercise monitoring, now that you asked about sleep monitoring, Il give that a try.
1963600
I leave mine on 24/7 for the purpose of being able to access my media while I am traveling. It will sleep after a period of inactivity and you can set it up to go into deep sleep on a schedule.
1001005
No, this watch does not track your sleep or your steps. It a GPS, very accurate, track miles walked, miles run, and miles biked. Many other things as well. Good piece of equipment.
203078
I just bought one 19 september 2014.it has sleep app and it works great. i find it more accurate than fitbit flex and Jawbone
203079
There's a "sleep" app that comes preloaded on it. I use it every single night.
973624
It does work with sleep mode, in a way. It'll go to sleep but once your computer goes to sleep it ejects your drive. So when you wake up your system you'll have a warning about improperly ejecting your drive.
196419
I'm still working on that. Misfit should give more information on that. For example: if you sleep 8 hours is 4 hours of deep sleep pretty normal? That's approximately what I get. Misfit needs to improve the software. I turned on the wake up alarm out of curiousity and now am searching for a way to turn it off so it doesn't ring again the next day. I suppose if you clock 2 hours or less of deep sleep that should be investigated. Remember Misfit only reads motion. Maybe a person who turns a lot while sleeping is okay even though this will give him/her low hours of deep sleep. Worth researching how much REM sleep we need.