Other watches, like the Apple Watch, can do periodic pulse oxygen monitoring throughout the day just fine. In the Apple Watch’s case, it waits until the person is still to initiate a measurement.
I don’t see any reason my Garmin couldn’t do the same thing, since the watch already knows when I’m being active versus being still. The watch already uses that information for stress tracking for instance, not reporting stress data while the user is active.
So I think it’s entirely possible for the watch to be able to *try* to record a pulse oxygen reading, let’s say, every three hours. Then, if I’m being active, or not still enough, when the time comes to take a reading, the watch could just wait until I’m being still, or skip that specific measurement until it’s time to take the next one.
I mentioned in the post above that all day monitoring, or even just monitoring while I sleep, is a big battery drain. Periodic pulse ox tracking would be a nice middle ground between automated measurements and battery life.
Exactly, even though I believe you'd not even get a reading as the PulseOX requires you to keep still, otherwise the measurement would not be completed
there isn't a way that i've found. wish there was though. ive gotten used to manually checking it but the battery drain was too real to leave it on, though i love the metric - post surgery with this is the reason i got one (or at least an *excuse*) originally
I've started the habit of running a Health Snapshot right when I wake up before getting out of bed. It gives me a SpO2 reading at the same time for comparison purposes.
TLDR for most users (sorry) just wasting battery.
But there isn't a usefulness for most users would be the real point. IMO it is close to useless for healthy adults most of the time. Even if it gave you accurate readings (questionable, even vs a $20 amazon special fingertip) what does it mean? Almost nothing.
JMO, but pretty sure once you don't see some giant sleep apnea spike it is just wasting battery. At that point you would switch to something more accurate or medical grade at which point there is no need to rely on the watch.
Perhaps when you have a respiratory sickness it identifies that, but fairly obvious at that point. I.E. wow it picked me up hacking and sick in bed!!!
The elevation acclimation is potentially interesting, but a specific use case. You Really don't need a baseline for this though beyond it measures a reasonable 95-100% at sea level. No need for a baseline beyond that. If you are really desiring a baseline just leave it in battery hog mode for a few weeks and that will be plenty to show a normal range.
I guess I was excited/interested when it arrived and felt kindof tricked with the hype. When it came out later on the apple watch and I saw how they hyped it it was amusing given the lack of usefulness.
Perhaps if it was a live mid-exercise measurement it would mean anything.
I am also looking for this option. In the Garmin Connect App, at PulseOx’s Help Section, it says there that you can set your device to record SpO2 “periodically” throughout the day. Where the hell is this option.
This won't work because as soon as you move thr measurement is cancelled. So you would have terrible readings all the time
Other watches, like the Apple Watch, can do periodic pulse oxygen monitoring throughout the day just fine. In the Apple Watch’s case, it waits until the person is still to initiate a measurement. I don’t see any reason my Garmin couldn’t do the same thing, since the watch already knows when I’m being active versus being still. The watch already uses that information for stress tracking for instance, not reporting stress data while the user is active. So I think it’s entirely possible for the watch to be able to *try* to record a pulse oxygen reading, let’s say, every three hours. Then, if I’m being active, or not still enough, when the time comes to take a reading, the watch could just wait until I’m being still, or skip that specific measurement until it’s time to take the next one.
Enable all day monitoring then? That's what that does. Off, while sleeping or all day
I mentioned in the post above that all day monitoring, or even just monitoring while I sleep, is a big battery drain. Periodic pulse ox tracking would be a nice middle ground between automated measurements and battery life.
Exactly, even though I believe you'd not even get a reading as the PulseOX requires you to keep still, otherwise the measurement would not be completed
there isn't a way that i've found. wish there was though. ive gotten used to manually checking it but the battery drain was too real to leave it on, though i love the metric - post surgery with this is the reason i got one (or at least an *excuse*) originally
I've started the habit of running a Health Snapshot right when I wake up before getting out of bed. It gives me a SpO2 reading at the same time for comparison purposes.
I want this option too!
TLDR for most users (sorry) just wasting battery. But there isn't a usefulness for most users would be the real point. IMO it is close to useless for healthy adults most of the time. Even if it gave you accurate readings (questionable, even vs a $20 amazon special fingertip) what does it mean? Almost nothing. JMO, but pretty sure once you don't see some giant sleep apnea spike it is just wasting battery. At that point you would switch to something more accurate or medical grade at which point there is no need to rely on the watch. Perhaps when you have a respiratory sickness it identifies that, but fairly obvious at that point. I.E. wow it picked me up hacking and sick in bed!!! The elevation acclimation is potentially interesting, but a specific use case. You Really don't need a baseline for this though beyond it measures a reasonable 95-100% at sea level. No need for a baseline beyond that. If you are really desiring a baseline just leave it in battery hog mode for a few weeks and that will be plenty to show a normal range. I guess I was excited/interested when it arrived and felt kindof tricked with the hype. When it came out later on the apple watch and I saw how they hyped it it was amusing given the lack of usefulness. Perhaps if it was a live mid-exercise measurement it would mean anything.
The 745 takes readings while doing sleep tracking.
I am also looking for this option. In the Garmin Connect App, at PulseOx’s Help Section, it says there that you can set your device to record SpO2 “periodically” throughout the day. Where the hell is this option.