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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by andrepd on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:45AM (#14307720)
I use "Sleep as Android". Absolute shit ton of features. The obsessive customiser in me loves these kinds of software; it's a pity that being able to customise your software like this is getting more and more uncommon.

Anyway I'm pretty sure you can do that in Sleep as Android. If I had a smartband I would.

Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by KJKingJ on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:25AM (#14307928)
You can indeed do this with Sleep as Android - I use it in combination with a Pebble Time to feed Sleep as Android accelerometer data (for sleep phases), and then the watch vibrates for an alarm - falling back to an audible alarm on the phone if I don't deactivate it in time.

The only downside is that the vibration motor in the Pebble Time is a little bit loud, but still much quieter than an audible alarm on the phone itself.

Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by tokenizerrr on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:27AM (#14307954)
You most certainly can. I have been doing this with my Moto 360 2nd gen and it works great. Unfortunately it turns out I hate sleeping with something on my wrist, so I don't do it anymore. It also slowly turns on my smartlights when the alarm goes off.
Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by nsxwolf on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:35AM (#14308503)
"Sleep as Android"? Is that an odd translation?
Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by andrepd on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:08AM (#14308750)
I believe so. It's an old app (2010?) and the devs are foreign I think, but the name stuck.
Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by tlrobinson on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:41AM (#14309020)
Maybe a play on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"?
Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by emodendroket on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:08AM (#14308269)
When do you charge it if not while you sleep?
Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by remybach on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:30AM (#14308458)
I charge my watch when I get home since I hardly really need it between then and bed time where I can either glance at one of the clocks around the house, or take care of notifications and what-not on the phone itself. I then put it back on charge between getting up and leaving the house in the morning.

It sounds like a lot, but it's very quickly become routine.

Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:32AM (#14308480)
I charge my fitbit when i shower