
If you sleep with your Garmin Edge device, you will get no sleep credit though you might unlock street cred. This encompasses the Garmin FR920XT, FR15, Fenix3, Vivofit, Vivofit2, Vivoactive, Vivosmart, and the upcoming Epix. In any event, as far as Garmin goes the update should now be present for existing Garmin activity trackers. But there are other sleep sensors, like the Withings Aura that I use as well that do a fairly good job of gathering aspects such as heart rate as well (below from my Withings Aura data): Of course even that’s still a far cry from brainwave measuring units like the now defunct Zeo sleep system. It’s more actionable, and tells me a bit more about how good of a night’s sleep I got. If you look at competitive offerings, such as Fitbit, you’ll see Fitbit has not only automatic sleep detection, but quite a bit of information about the night – such as times awake, restlessness, and how long I was awake. Still, it’s much appreciated and I’m hoping though that this is the first step towards a more complete sleep picture from Garmin. It’s still what I’d classify as kinda-not-useful, mostly just looking like waves in the middle of the ocean – and having about as much bearing on my life as waves 2,000 miles off the coast of Nouakchott, Mauritania: Now you won’t notice much else different in terms of the graph itself. That’s about right, I had whacked the snooze alarm starting about 10 or so minutes earlier, before heading to my laptop to start presenting to people in Asia on a conference call at precisely 8:00AM. Then, 5 hours and 51 minutes later, at 7:56AM I woke up according to Garmin Connect.

Which, based on my rough recollection of the evening (err…morning?), is pretty much correct.


And according to Garmin, that was about 2:05AM: Instead, I just fall asleep once I’d declared e-mail bankruptcy for the night. Normally, I’d have to tap this fancy little button:Įxcept last night (like most nights), I don’t bother to. They did so not as part of any firmware update that you have to install, but rather on their backend platform that automatically recognizes when you went to sleep and how many hours of sleep you got.įor example, last night I used the Garmin Vivoactive with the new functionality. Over the last few days Garmin has enabled automatic sleep tracking on all of their sleep capable activity tracker devices.
