Is there any app out that can take a reading every 1 min -30 seconds or so? Figure this is enough resolution to see if you have sleep apnea. The current 1-2 per hour it does while you sleep is not enough to capture any episodes of sleep apnea unless it takes a reading right after you stop breathing.
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App that Monitors Blood Ox continuously?
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Your battery wouldn't make it through the night.
Look at something like the Wellue O2 ring, which constantly monitors you blood oxygen and heart rate though out the night on a per second basis. It's also medical grade and FDA approved so the readings should be accurate.
Look at something like the Wellue O2 ring, which constantly monitors you blood oxygen and heart rate though out the night on a per second basis. It's also medical grade and FDA approved so the readings should be accurate.
Well I dont really care that it would kill the battery, ill just charge it in the morning. Question is whether and App exists that takes periodic O2 reading outside of Apple set cadence.
Also doubt that it would not last the night...if Apple can do 20-30 readings a night with 10% battery drain im sure you could easily do 10x that and make it through the night.
Also doubt that it would not last the night...if Apple can do 20-30 readings a night with 10% battery drain im sure you could easily do 10x that and make it through the night.
It doesn’t do 20-30 readings per night though so your math doesn’t make sense. Mine does about 3-4 successful readings per night, there’s no way (afaik) to tell the amount of unsuccessful readings. If I had to guess I’d say it tries once per hour.
Regardless, there’s no such app and I highly doubt Apple will give a third party access to that sensor anytime soon.
I believe that it tries every 30 minutes day or night. Looking at the successful readings that I have they seem to be about on a half hour schedule and there are a few cases where I have some that are 30 minutes apart.
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There is definitely no app for this. Apple doesn’t make the Blood O2 sensor available to third party apps.
