Use both sonar and accelerometer for sleep detection

Well, this explains why my sleep data has stopped showing my breathing; I started using a Gear Fit 2. I mistakenly assumed that Sonar would continue to work on the phone while the Fit 2 handled Heart Rate data. That’s actually what’s implied in the UI; “Heart rate monitoring” is set to Samsung Gear while Sensor is set to Sonar. There’s no indication at all that Sonar will no longer work.

Please group these things more intuitively and make it clear that Sonar will be disabled if a Smart Watch/Tracker is used. Or better yet, allow us to use the Phone for Sonar and the Wearable for Heart Rate Tracking.

I’d really love to see the options presented as something like:

Sleep Tracking Sensors
Motion Tracking: [Sonar (Phone) | Accelerometer (Phone) | Accelerometer (Wearable)]
Heart Rate Tracking: [Bluetooth Smart | Wearable]
Breath Tracking: [Sonar (Phone) | Accelerometer (Wearable)]

I was excited to see that Sleep As Android supports the Fit 2 and that was actually the final bit of motivation that I needed to buy the thing. Now I am a sad panda! Guess I’ll just leave it on the charger overnight and go back to using Sonar and my Polar HR monitor. :frowning:

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