Withings Sleep

Beware the Deep Sleep reporting system – The system works flawlessly as far as WiFi and data processing is concerned. Severe sleep apnea was detected and I had a professional CPAP test performed and the sleep apnea was confirmed. This sounds ‘all good’, however the Withings Sleep Analyser reported that I had almost no ‘deep sleep’ each night and that concerned me. The CPAP test used… Read more

electrodes on my head and these reported that I was getting lots of ‘slow wave’ sleep (91 minutes). This suggests to me that the Withings system uses a method of estimating deep sleep which did not work for me. I wonder how common this is. The Withings Sleep Analyser cannot measure Oxygen levels so you need an Apple Watch or similar device. In my case the CPAP test reported exactly the same oxygen levels as the watch.

Information reporting good, Wi-Fi security really bad – The Withings Sleep Analyzer seems to provide fairly accurate and useful information and I used it quite contentedly for about four months BUT I recently unplugged it because I found out that someone was able to get my Wi-Fi password from my Withings Sleep Analyzer and make use of my internet. I have tried to contact Withings to ask if it is… Read more

possible for myself (as the user) to improve the security BUT the only way I could find to contact Withings is via their 'support' section - good luck if you try to ask a question via that.

It is disappointing as it seems to be a useful health monitoring device and I would like to keep using it but its very poor WI-Fi security lets it down AND I no longer feel comfortable about using it.