Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts

[SlaSh]

@Armin-S start sleep wouldn’t be true sleep as you wont get into sleep after pressing the button immediately, so kinda sleep button is pointless…

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@SlaSh

[Armin S.]

@SlaSh But that way as the sleep tracking NOW works, it is also pointless. The real time of falling asleep is unfortunately very often not recognized by the S3F!

So: thoroughly revise and correct or consider my proposal (button and configurable time - just like some other smartwatches do) - optional for (possibly not working) automatic.

Of course, the automatic would be better - but then it has to work correctly!

[A Former User]

@Armin-S You know, I have a thing for sleep tracking, so I tried most of the activity trackers out there and then some. I don’t have a problem sleeping, mind you I do have a big problem stopping myself from a million things that at the time seem far worthier pursuits than sleeping. Well, the morning is usually a different story

None of the trackers can accurately detect sleep day in and day out. Polar had me always fall asleep few hours too late. Garmin was all over the map until recently, still isn’t very accurate, especially if you lie quietly reading a book inside your do-not-disturb ours. Fitbit was fairly close but then would have me sleep-walking in the middle of the night. Oura wasn’t bad, but had its issues. If it was wrong, it was really wrong. I can go all the way back to Jawbone and Basis.

Things should improve though. There’s a lot you can add to accelerometer data with ORH and HRV to better detect sleep state and phase. Hopefully, Suunto/Firstbeat would look into this.

[Armin S.]

Exactly as you say @NickK. If Suunto does not get it right with the automatic, then please provide a manual version and start recording at the time specified by me. And then I know where possible mistakes come from and don’t miss 2…3…4 hours on sleep (recording). Luckily I’m sleeping and dreaming anyway

[Brad_Olwin]

I have had very good luck with sleep tracking on the latest firmware by inserting my sleep times and then selecting DND manually. I typically will go to bed and then select DND but either watch a little TV news or read a few minutes before I fall asleep. The fall asleep time on my S9 has been very accurate. I don’t use this much but wanted to test it for my traveling to Europe. When I was using autoDND it seemed far less accurate.

[Armin S.]

@Brad_Olwin said in Suunto 3 Fitness Thoughts:

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… When I was using autoDND it seemed far less accurate.

Thanks for the tip, I will then use the DND accordingly. Would be nice if it works better then

[Jouko Tyni]

@Svetlin-Tonchev The fix for ‘sleep steps’ will come later, so we were aware of that issue. Unfortunately it dropped from this release. Currently this new approach seems to give statistically about 30% less steps than the previous ones.

[Armin S.]

@Jouko-from-Suunto That sounds hopeful! Above all, it’s good to hear that Suunto cares about that - and not just here in the forum.

P.S. By the way, my attempt with DND was unsuccessful. Last night was missing again 1:30 h to start.

[Steven Smith]

Interesting take! A lightweight Suunto with Stryd support would be a game-changer for runners. I doubt they’ll add it, but if they did, I’d consider it too. The T6c was legendary—2000 miles is impressive!