please help

[psantiago]

hi everyone ......i'm a newwbie and i just wanna ask a question.........i work nights and i have been using my machine (DreamStation Series Heated Humidifier) every morning when i get home at 7am whats happening is if i sleep from 730 am to 330 pm = 8 hours the machine is saying 3 1/2 hours of sleep time is there a time shift as in like midnight starts a new day on our clocks but the machine considers a new day at 12pm since most people sleep at night.......i dont know what to do and i dont want my medical ins or the medical company to think im not using the machine the recamended 4 hours per day......please help........ i also had this same issuse with resmed 10 and thought it was broken and sent it back

[Julie]

Someone here might know how to set the clock properly for you, but if not, maybe the DME might help... have you asked? Or called Resmed to ask?

[Sleeprider]

The therapy meter breaks at noon. Your total daily hours will be correct, but your particular sleep schedule gets broken into two days. If you are required to demonstrate compliance, be sure to explain this to your DME, but the total usage hours per day will be correct on average. As far as I know there is no way to change how the therapy session is recorded into two days instead of one, but someone may know differently.

[Wulfman...]

hi everyone ......i'm a newwbie and i just wanna ask a question.........i work nights and i have been using my machine (DreamStation Series Heated Humidifier) every morning when i get home at 7am whats happening is if i sleep from 730 am to 330 pm = 8 hours the machine is saying 3 1/2 hours of sleep time is there a time shift as in like midnight starts a new day on our clocks but the machine considers a new day at 12pm since most people sleep at night.......i dont know what to do and i dont want my medical ins or the medical company to think im not using the machine the recamended 4 hours per day......please help........ i also had this same issuse with resmed 10 and thought it was broken and sent it back

Most all CPAP machines (by default) consider a "day" as from Noon (first day) to Noon (next day). Everything between those times counts towards the day's total compliance hours.
What software are you using? Some of them can be adjusted for different usage hours.
But, even if it's split like you mentioned, the next day will have accumulated hours that should add together for your compliance hours.


Den

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[OkyDoky]

if i sleep from 730 am to 330 pm = 8 hours the machine is saying 3 1/2 hours of sleep time

Your machine will show all your hours. It will just be broken into 2 separate sessions in 24 hours. With this example you will have 3 1/2 hours one afternoon plus 4 1/2 hours the next morning equal 8 hours in 24 hours. The compliance hours will still show 8 hours in 24 hours. If you get Sleepyhead computer software then you can see that. I wouldn't worry about setting the clock different it will all add up.
This is a site to help you learn about Sleepyhead. https://sleep.tnet.com/resources/sleepyhead

[palerider]

Someone here might know how to set the clock properly for you, but if not, maybe the DME might help... have you asked? Or called Resmed to ask?

dreamstation = respironics, not resmed, and you can't set the clock on respironics machines.

[Blizardj]

True you can't set the internal clock... but the Dreamstation can be set at 30 minute increments for local time zone setting.

John

[palerider]

True you can't set the internal clock... but the Dreamstation can be set at 30 minute increments for local time zone setting.

which is kinda weird... instead of letting you set the clock, which drifts, unless they're doing some correction off the cell network now...

extra credit, why can you set the time zone in half hour increments?

[OkyDoky]

True you can't set the internal clock... but the Dreamstation can be set at 30 minute increments for local time zone setting.

which is kinda weird... instead of letting you set the clock, which drifts, unless they're doing some correction off the cell network now...

extra credit, why can you set the time zone in half hour increments?

It does say this in the user manual. Seems strange it's not in 1 hr increments.

Allows you to adjust the time. The default setting is Greenwich Mean Time, but you may adjust the time in 30 minute increments to match your local time zone.
Note: This time setting is not displayed as a clock function on the device. It is only used to align your therapy data Ior your Provider's data reports.

[palerider]

True you can't set the internal clock... but the Dreamstation can be set at 30 minute increments for local time zone setting.

which is kinda weird... instead of letting you set the clock, which drifts, unless they're doing some correction off the cell network now...

extra credit, why can you set the time zone in half hour increments?

It does say this in the user manual. Seems strange it's not in 1 hr increments.

aye, that's the 'extra credit' bit, why half hour increments?

[poppi2]

"North Korea, Newfoundland, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Burma, Sri Lanka, the Marquesas, as well as parts of Australia use half-hour deviations from standard time, and some nations, such as Nepal, and some provinces, such as the Chatham Islands, use quarter-hour deviations." Via Wikipedia

[palerider]

"North Korea, Newfoundland, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Burma, Sri Lanka, the Marquesas, as well as parts of Australia use half-hour deviations from standard time, and some nations, such as Nepal, and some provinces, such as the Chatham Islands, use quarter-hour deviations." Via Wikipedia

and, they keep dorking around with 'em, based on the frequency of timezone file updates I see going into unix

[chunkyfrog]

All the product of somebody's consuming desire to leave their "mark" on the world--even if it is a black mark.