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I have been trying to find information about which GadgetBridge compatible devices have the best sleep tracking capabilities. I have looked into Garmin watches and Amazfit wearables but The Quantified Scientist ranks these well behind Apple, Pixel, and Oura wearables which are proprietary and not compatible with GadgetBridge.

Has anyone had success tracking sleep accurately with GadgetBridge compatible devices?

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[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It is good to note that sleep tracking is one of those things that is kind of a hand-wavy thing right now And it has actually shown to increase anxiety when using sleep trackers when people get less than great sleep, and can make things worse when the algorithm incorrectly estates quality (which all if those proprietary apps do instead of just tracking sleep state).

There is also the issue of comparing with eeg which the head unit that the qualified scientist is also not completely accurate, it is just the best that is readily available.

Sorry that I can't be helpful, but I dived into it a while ago and what came out of my search was pretty much that it is not reliable and people pay way too much attention to it when they should pay attention to how they feel.

Thank you for the insight!