As the title says, wife is complaining about the light of the optical HR monitor on my 935 waking her up. Are there any tricks to avoid this? Alternatively. will I be missing much if I turn the HR monitor off during sleep?
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Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [ecce-homo]
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ecce-homo wrote:
As the title says, wife is complaining about the light of the optical HR monitor on my 935 waking her up. Are there any tricks to avoid this? Alternatively. will I be missing much if I turn the HR monitor off during sleep?Are you wearing it to bed or is it next to you on a bedside table?
I don't wear mine to bed so not an issue, I just have it on charge in our en-suite. But if it is flat down on a soft surface or piece of clothing it should prevent the light from showing.
Other option is buy her a nice blackout eye mask...we use them in our house...we are both medical and come and go at night so these help....
Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [Amnesia]
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Divorce her
Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [ecce-homo]
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I'd tell her to keep her eyes closed and she won't have a problem.
Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [ecce-homo]
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Not sure if the 935 does this but in the battery settings on my fenix 6 I can turn the optical scanner off at night.
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Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [ecce-homo]
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Ha! My wife has an optical HR sensor on her watch and it wakes me up too, but not too bad. If I were the husband here, I'd just shut if off. No big deal not logging HR/sleep data at night. In my life, that data isn't really very important anyways.
Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [ecce-homo]
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Are you sure it is the OHR, or is it the backlight turning on? (The backlight can be quite bright).
I can't see my OHR even in the pitch black - it's against my wrist. Perhaps tighten the band.
If it is the backlight - turn on Do Not Disturb overnight, this should stop the backlight coming on at random times due to gesture, or to alerts coming in on your phone. Also, try turning down the backlight intensity to 5%.
If this still doesn't work, take it off overnight - the OHR should shut down within about 5 seconds if it is motionless off your wrist.
I can't see my OHR even in the pitch black - it's against my wrist. Perhaps tighten the band.
If it is the backlight - turn on Do Not Disturb overnight, this should stop the backlight coming on at random times due to gesture, or to alerts coming in on your phone. Also, try turning down the backlight intensity to 5%.
If this still doesn't work, take it off overnight - the OHR should shut down within about 5 seconds if it is motionless off your wrist.
Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [Amnesia]
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Amnesia wrote:
....Other option is buy her a nice blackout eye mask...Getting good uninterrupted sleep, is infinitely more important than measuring it!
Re: Garmin 935 Waking Wife Up [ecce-homo]
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I used to have a similar problem with my wife's watch, I don't have this problem now with my ex-wife's watch.
"Well honey, now that you're awake..."
See how long that lasts.
See how long that lasts.