Sleep Shepherd Blue

I find everything very user friendly, which is fantastic as my smartphone is often smarter than I am. I rarely have connection issues, but dislike the settings for the alarm. It would be wonderful to set the time using a number pad opposed to the scroll menu. I'm often tired when doing this, which isn't ideal, and have accidentally selected the wrong time numerous times.

The device works fine, and the app is ok. But the alarm clock time doesn't sync with my phone. It's stuck on GMT I think. Very very frustrating setting an alarm.

First of all, to Pepe Lisboa, who complained that the battery died and is not replaceable, that's true. However, it is rechargeable and (my Sleep Shepherd, at least) recharges just fine. I think the app is well designed and does what it needs to.

The app is so useless i would like to track my sleep properly i want to click on any day and get the data properly. This sucks

After one month of normal use, battery died. As i bought it in Kickstart, and battery is not replaceable, it goes to the garbage.

Alarm seems to always go off 5 mins early (better than the 10 early in previous version). Not quite sure what volume to aim for. Wish there was a little more information readily available regarding what they found in development so that I could tailor that. Discovered that if it's too loud, when it kicks on to put me back to sleep, it actually would wake me up. At some point at quiet end, I suppose it loses it's effectiveness, but not sure? Wish you could select a previous night and see info.

About 70% of the time, i cannot get the app to connect to the device. Once it gets connected, it's iffy if it stays connected long enough to give me good readings over night and they rarely read good all night. The head sensors seem to require very specific locations to register to get a Good reading with the app. When everything is hitting on all cylinders, i sleep well and it's displayed and works as it's supposed to. Just wish it was more consistent after the expense.

synching at times. Seems pretty sporadic. The message when this happens is to turn it off and back on. It could be more specific as if the headpiece is turned off and on all the data is lost.

I've been using a sleep shepherd blue for 6 weeks now. Other than having to start or end a session multiple times it connects with no problems. The data is not really very useful, it gives no recommendations at all, just allows you to look at last nights data or trends. In my case the only trend seems to be that my sleep quality is getting worse. The head orientation would be more useful if it was mapped along with sleep state. Though the sleep states seem to be based on head movement more than anything.

I have now tried to "turn the device off and then on again" as the app tells me to, 15 times. Your app no longer works, period. And there's no way to simply uninstall this update. That's $300 wasted for a pair of these monitors, unless you fix this problem.

The app just got updated & now will not connect to the device. That kills the usefulness of the whole thing.. Now what????????

Used it once so far, last night. I felt like I actually slept!! Is comfortable and not bulky. Developers - on the app, the start/end sleep bar covers the bottom of feedback pages to where I cannot read bottom row. This may be due to phone model, Samsung galaxy s4. Also, my battery only lasts 6 hours on a full charge. This is neither all night, nor long enough for the alarm to activate so I don't know if that feature works for me. UPDATE support emailed work around for battery life.

App: Well designed app works as designed. I haven't run into any issues at all. I only wish they'd add more features to the alarm function, and maybe see if it's possible to chart sleep cycles. Sleep shepherd :I've been using it for a few weeks now. I honestly have no change in my sleeping habits or quality. It often thinks I'm asleep when I'm actually lying awake trying to fall asleep and not succeeding. Still, I do find it strangly soothing, in a white noise way. I usually prefer to use it than to skip.

The app says I'm in light or restless sleep when I'm actually awake so it's switching off the sound too early, waking me up too early and not kicking in fast enough when I do surface during the night. But it's easy to use and I like the graphs.

The time on the app is incorrect and I cannot find a way to change it. Not only is the time on my data incorrect, I cannot set the alarm to wake me at the proper time. EDITED TO ADD - I sent an email to address provided and haven't heard anything back yet. I uninstalled and downloaded the app again and now it won't even connect to my band. I hope we can get resolved soon.

Just woke up from my first night sleep with the Sleep Shepherd, and woke up on my own! No alarm, no one rolling me out of bed, nothing! I never wake up on my own, so this was awesome. The app definitely still needs polishing, though. There is no way to delete or edit a nights sleep! What if I accidentally recorded a 10 minute session? Also, there's no way to change your sleep rating, so if you hit 3 stars instead of 5, it's now stuck that way.

The unit slips off and up a bunch. The app just somehow changed orientation or zoom and now I can't read the data our results or set the alarm. It's frustrating.

I have another unopened box, can't return it - bought on Kickstarter. Contact me, will sell for cheap. Two stars for the effort and innovation. Poor execution. The head band is uncomfortable, the plastic box is putting pressure on my forehead, too small for size 63 head, the speakers are never in the same place. I tried it for two weeks, got used to it quickly, however my sleep quality actually deteriorated. Woke up yesterday because the speaker sound was irritating me. Today slept without it much better.

The "Start Sleep" bar at the bottom of the page covers information and you can't move it. Nymber of hours of deep sleep is critical info that is covered. You can't view historic graphs - only "last night's sleep". These are amateur errors.

The bottom option are cut off on each page of the app because the 'start sleep' button takes up the page. Cannot see the deep sleep info or the sleep score. Lazy programming for Android Layout.

The app is reset in the morning which renders the whole thing unusable. Want that impressed with the data on the 2 days it did work. And the sound it makes us annoying not soothing.

The data from sleep sessions cannot be retrieved. Get error message that not enough sleep time to obtain results. Very frustrating after I have set up, checked and double checked the position of the Sleep Shepherd Blue and that there is great signal. Grrrrrrrrrrr

In general, I like the app, it does what was promised through the campaign, and on my phone it does it well. I do however think that the application is lacking some long term sleep analysis with all that data it gathers. Sure it can tell me that my average deep sleep was something, but did it have something to do with "go to sleep hour" or "wake up hour" or "sleep duration" or any other variable? I will never know. Last star will arrive when the app not only tracks my sleep, but also provides me some tools to improve my sleep.

Which also drops any data it gathered.

Wish there was a way to view all data from previous nights sleep

Pretty decent app. Looking forward to more functions. Only negative feedback is that the app doesn't recall I put the tracker in sleep mode and the prompt that there is data doesn't make much sense. I hope there will be a way to export my data in the future so I can carry over my results over to new phones.

My only wish for the app is that I were able to access past days' sleep graphs in order to compare. I have been taking screen shots, but it would be a lot more convenient to have all the graphs at hand in the app. I know my sleep has improved!

The app is not opening correctly. It no longer let's me select anything. After I woke up this morning it no longer worked for me. I tried uninstalling it, and it still will not work. I'm very uspet, because I couldn't upload my information from my last sleep

End Sleep completes less than half the time. I had to force stop the app and restart it, losing an entire night of data.

Update after emailing with customer service. They lied about their return policy, were rude, and not at all helpful. AVOID this company at all costs. The app worked for a week and then became completely unusable despite several attempts to reinstall. The device made me sleep worse. I bought it on kickstarter so they won't accept a return. I'm livid.

Could not connect phone to device on LG desire phone, but could on my iphone

A great product with genius idea built in.