S+ by ResMed

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ResMed is a leader in CPAP and this hardware is excellent but the app is incredibly badly designed. It requires that your smartphone is near your bed (we usually keep it in another room while sleeping). The app must be manually started before sleeping and stopped upon awakening, and this is not a simple screen tap - you have to scroll down past questions it asks you to start it. If you hit the wrong part of the screen which is easy to do without glasses or when you are groggy then you have to navigate back to the main screen. It would be truly great if integrated with their CPAP and communicated directly with the website. It would also be better if the S++ device did not require cell phone proximity and if it detected sleep and automatically turned on and off. It would be extremely helpful to those of us with sleep problems if ResMed could improve the app.

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The S+ hardware and software combination has great potential. The hardware functions amazingly well, sensing key details of the sleeping environment as well as your level of sleep all without contact with your bed or your person. It apparently rejects irrelevant data, like that belonging to your sleep partner very well. After five nights using the S+ monitoring system I attribute it's shortcomings to the software. The app functions well with one key acception; it does not report all of your sleep data. For that you must go to a ResMed website which on Safari operates anywhere from painfully slow to respond to failing to load at all. Once the website's apparent issues are resolved I have few doubts that I will make great use of the system but for now it is difficult to recommend, even at a sale price of less than $70.

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Very buggy. I’m losing sleep trying to get the thing to work every night. Takes a long time to pair every night and sometimes doesn’t pair at all. It’s also lost connection during the night. Won’t record any data if not connected. You’d think for the size of the darn thing it would be able to record by itself. Also the relaxing music and sounds aren’t that relaxing. The ocean wave seems to be just a loop of two waves. Definitely needs some work. But when all goes well it does give me good information on how to improve my sleep.

I like to listen to music at night, or ‘sleep sounds’ like the ocean. Every time I start tracking my sleep, however, my music immediately stops playing through my Bluetooth speaker and my phone won’t even show the speaker as an option for use despite being connected to my phone. I don’t understand this and can not figure out how to fix it. I believe it’s something to do with the app but it’s frustrating because I can’t see a benefit for it. Other than that, the app works decently and the device reports my sleep data fairly accurately. If I could play my music (or the calming sounds offered in app) through my Bluetooth speaker I would do it in a heartbeat.

Been using for 3 weeks and although the improvements mentioned would be nice, it’s helped me. My biggest complaints are it cuts my iPhone alarm clock noise to low so now my clock is useless for charging iPhone. I’m trying to use my iPad with the app so my phone can still charge & alarm still work. Most desired improvement would be to have it combine multiple start and stop on the same day or allow a pause on tracking. Software could be much better but hardware is impressively correct.