I bought it about a month ago and have been using it consistently alongside other wearables that I've used for years to track my sleep. I find the comfort of this index more appealing compared to wrist-based wearables for sleep tracking. It does a decent job of recording my sleep when I am actually asleep. However, my biggest criticism is that it consistently fails to detect when I wake up during the night. I often wake up and read to help myself fall back asleep, but the index never recognizes this as being awake, whereas my other wearable always does. There is potential here, but I don't think it’s quite there yet.
Communication's across other garmin devices is much needed when analyzing sleep. I Should have investigated this before purchasing. Sleep metrics tied to specific workload metrics of the day is required to properly analyze the full picture of what is occurring and how to best make decisions going forward.
I’ve had mine a few weeks now, it’s comfortable to wear and when it works the data is as good as from my FR965. But it’s pretty unreliable when it comes to having the data apply to training status. Sometimes it works, sometimes it’ll claim there’s no sleep data or no HRV data. I’d hold off until they get the bugs sorted out.
I've been doing sleep tracking with my Garmin watches for a while now. This is somewhat uncomfortable especially since i have wrist problems. The sleep band is VERY comfortable, I don't even realize I'm wearing it. I think the accuracy is a little better, too.
It's great to finally has this one from garmin. It's a great addition to my health trackers. I'm not sure why the battery has a short life, I have to recharge it every 3-4 days, it's normal?
I had no problem syncing it the first time and wore it that night and it was comfortable and it gave me readings, the second night nothing. I tried to resync it and was not able to get it to sync so I sent it back.
I wanted this device to get more detailed sleep metrics, and to give my wrist a break from my watch while I'm sleeping. It accomplishes this well, but there are still some things that need tweaking with the integration into the TrueUp system to give a complete Unified Training Status.