As it's unclear when the Garmin site is likely to come back online I'm having to change the device I use to measure sleep.
What I liked about the Garmin Vivofit was it's very low battery use. By using a very basic display, not trying to make the device a smart watch by adding too many features and critically only using BlueTooth connection when manually told to sync, the strap is able to use standard watch batteries which last for months, possibly years. Not sure of exactly how long the batteries last since I've not been using the strap for a year yet. I did put in new batteries when I got the strap. While it had been sitting in a drawer for years the time on the Vivofit was still showing and the step counter worked for a few weeks before finally the battery died. Clearly sitting in a drawer for years doing nothing is going to use less power so that's not a true measure.
In the time old tradition of inheriting gadgets from Jude, I'm trying her Honor Band 5.
I had seen these bands and looking at the specification to price they look amazing and have had good reviews. It does seem that complaints I had read about the device were related to people not configuring it properly or the issues have been addressed in firmware updates since their review.
While the Honor Band 5 app does link with my Google Fit account it's not clear yet if the sleep tracking gets syncronised. I have some research to do.
While Maia also has one of these fitness trackers I haven't seen the results she gets from the app.
With different devices having access to Google fit it's not clear which can read what information and which write what information. This may be something to analyse in another post.
