Android Sleep Monitor App
dw300
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I downloaded a little free app that's designed to help you monitor your sleep, it's called 'Sleep As Android'. (Previously called 'Sleep As An Droid'. Presumably the Eastern European developer thought was a great pun in English, but doesn't roll off the tongue at all.)
Anyway, it basically just uses the accelerometers to record movement throughout the night, and equates a lack of movement to deeper sleep, and restlessness to lighter sleep. Obviously, that'll put off the power meter nazis who will suggest you go out and buy proper brainwave scanning equipment if you want accurate results
.. but for the rest of us who enjoy ballin' on a budget, it actually works reasonably well.
The stats record your accumulated sleep debt and quality, and the graphs show you when you're sound asleep or restless. You can set a smart wakeup period, which will sound the alarm early if you are in a light sleep so that you avoid that discombobulated feeling on getting rudely awakened during deep sleep. Also sounds an alarm for when to go to bed if going to bed is your problem.
This might be somewhat useful for training I guess .. so if you get a particularly bad nights sleep, you know to make up for it. It might sound like that would be obvious to anyone, but I've found that even on an apparently uninterrupted nights sleep you can actually be restless for more than you thought. In 6 days I've racked up a good 8hrs 20mins of sleep debt (based off 8hrs/night), and 48% deep sleep .. still working out what's typical, but I know I could sleep better!
There are a few other features and beta features at an early stage, eg. alarm, and recording of noises during the night, to help prevent snoring/apnia, and alarm to aid lucid dreaming, but they don't really work for me.
Probably the best feature is a CAPTCHA function where you set it that to dismiss an alarm you must scan a QR code, which you could put in the bathroom cabinet, or on the mirror, so you have to get up to turn it off. And you can set it to halve the snooze period each press.
Just thought I'd share in case anyones interested .. https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/graphs
Anyway, it basically just uses the accelerometers to record movement throughout the night, and equates a lack of movement to deeper sleep, and restlessness to lighter sleep. Obviously, that'll put off the power meter nazis who will suggest you go out and buy proper brainwave scanning equipment if you want accurate results
.. but for the rest of us who enjoy ballin' on a budget, it actually works reasonably well.The stats record your accumulated sleep debt and quality, and the graphs show you when you're sound asleep or restless. You can set a smart wakeup period, which will sound the alarm early if you are in a light sleep so that you avoid that discombobulated feeling on getting rudely awakened during deep sleep. Also sounds an alarm for when to go to bed if going to bed is your problem.
This might be somewhat useful for training I guess .. so if you get a particularly bad nights sleep, you know to make up for it. It might sound like that would be obvious to anyone, but I've found that even on an apparently uninterrupted nights sleep you can actually be restless for more than you thought. In 6 days I've racked up a good 8hrs 20mins of sleep debt (based off 8hrs/night), and 48% deep sleep .. still working out what's typical, but I know I could sleep better!
There are a few other features and beta features at an early stage, eg. alarm, and recording of noises during the night, to help prevent snoring/apnia, and alarm to aid lucid dreaming, but they don't really work for me.
Probably the best feature is a CAPTCHA function where you set it that to dismiss an alarm you must scan a QR code, which you could put in the bathroom cabinet, or on the mirror, so you have to get up to turn it off. And you can set it to halve the snooze period each press.
Just thought I'd share in case anyones interested .. https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/graphs
All the above is just advice .. you can do whatever the f*ck you wana do!
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I'm assuming it has to be mounted on you in some form for it to work? Or just in your bed?0
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I might write some apps. I'll do a 'sleep monitoring' one that offer the user the chance to have their sleep analysed. It will also, unknown to the user, film them while they are asleep and upload a geo-tagged video to my personal internet to watch later. It will also let me know when they're sleeping away from home so I know when best to rob them.0
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Perhaps you can setup a website too which collates the data, allows users to add friends and compete against each other.
- HAHA! I outslept you last night!
- Yeah, but i had 20 more minutes of REM. That's worth at least 2 hours of normal sleep, so i win.
- Er, no!..............
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Er, do you have to correct for non-sleep related movement? :shock:
A couple of minutes should do the trick.
Purveyor of "up"0 -
You'd have people competing for King Of the Mountings!0
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Maybe it's just me, but I set my alarm at a time I need to get up at. Whether I want to get up then or not doesn't usually matter cos I need to get up to go to work!
Oh and how does it work if you share a bed with someone or is it only for lonely singeltons?
How do you know it's actually providing meaningful information? Yet another smartphone app that most folk will use a couple of times and then forget about.....More problems but still living....0 -
There are also ones that use the phone camera and mic to determine movement and sleep stage. Of course, these days I can sleep with the light off rendering video a non starter, my phone does not have thermal imaging and the mic isn't sensitive enough to pick up my breathing from the bedside table.
I've probably spoilt the app makers whole day with that 0
