Time on Resmed Machines

I did a Sleepyhead upload yesterday and noted my sleep times looked odd. I knew I was wearing my mask by 0645, but I didn't have data til 0715. I checked my machine's clock and it was off by 45 minutes. When I got my Vauto from Craigslist, that clock was also way off. Both of these machines have the internal modems with strong signals. Why isn't the time being automatically set that way- like a cell phone?

Time on Resmed machines is set by the user manually in the clinical settings menu. Not everybody lives in an area with adequate cellular coverage, and to have it work automatically would just add a layer of complication and unnecessary cost.

Thatgirl wrote:Why isn't the time being automatically set that way- like a cell phone?

because it's not built that way?

So for daylight's it needs to be changed manually too? I was just really surprised, because it appears you need to access the clinical settings to even set time and date.

Thatgirl wrote:So for daylight's it needs to be changed manually too?

Yes....manually.

Hey....it's still better than Respironics which has zero way of adjusting for time being off a little. There's not even a little clock that the patient can get to and set.

Why the no big deal about the actual time? Because DMEs are considered the customer and DMEs don't really care what time you went to bed or got up....all they care about is that you used the machine the required number of hours so that your insurance will pay for the machine.

Thatgirl wrote:So for daylight's it needs to be changed manually too? I was just really surprised, because it appears you need to access the clinical settings to even set time and date.

Twice a year for about a minute each!

Thatgirl wrote:So for daylight's it needs to be changed manually too? I was just really surprised, because it appears you need to access the clinical settings to even set time and date.

hehe... if you had a respironics machine, you couldn't change the time on it *at all*, it's set at the factory and then left to drift.... I had one that was a couple *HOURS* off.

palerider wrote:hehe... if you had a respironics machine, you couldn't change the time on it *at all*, it's set at the factory and then left to drift.... I had one that was a couple *HOURS* off.

I guess I have been lucky but all my Respironics machines haven't had much of a time drift.
Last I checked my 760 was still within a minute or two.
I don't worry about the clocks anymore though...8 hours of sleep is hours no matter what the start and end time and I don't have any need to have the time "exact"....heck, I don't even adjust for DST on my S9 anymore.
It's left to be an hour off for half the year and correct for the other half.
Now maybe if I was doing the pulse ox thing with times being more critical I would put forth the effort but I am not doing the pulse ox thing so it doesn't matter if my machine says I went to bed at 12 midnight and I really went to bed at 11 PM. My main focus now is just hours of sleep and not so much accuracy of the clock.

But my butt is dragging today....had a little trouble getting to sleep last night which is really unusual for me and then to top it all off I woke up after 4 hours or so and couldn't go back to sleep.
I fought off the nap urge...bet I go to sleep fairly easily tonight.

palerider wrote:

Thatgirl wrote:So for daylight's it needs to be changed manually too? I was just really surprised, because it appears you need to access the clinical settings to even set time and date.

hehe... if you had a respironics machine, you couldn't change the time on it *at all*, it's set at the factory and then left to drift.... I had one that was a couple *HOURS* off.

PPPPPFFFFFTTTTT!!!!
That's another reason I'm sticking with my "breadboxes", "breadloaves", etc. I have the special cable and software to change/set the time in mine.


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Pugsy wrote: I don't worry about the clocks anymore though...8 hours of sleep is hours no matter what the start and end time and I don't have any need to have the time "exact"....

true, the only time it really matters is if you're trying to sync in external data into sleepyhead, say from an oximeter or a zeo, etc.

My Airsense machine changes the time with daylight savings time. It's annoying because the detailed data gets out of sync with the events. Its odd that it doesn't just sync to the cell network.

It's not that big of a deal, just another thing to remember to change then. It's just so odd to me that my first cell phone could set the time automatically in 2004, but this advanced medical device can't. The 6:45 thing actually happened because I woke up startled and noted the time. And that's really sad about respironics! Hopefully this will get fixed in the future.

Thatgirl wrote:It's not that big of a deal, just another thing to remember to change then. It's just so odd to me that my first cell phone could set the time automatically in 2004, but this advanced medical device can't. The 6:45 thing actually happened because I woke up startled and noted the time. And that's really sad about respironics! Hopefully this will get fixed in the future.

Be careful what you wish for. Your cell phone didn't record data to be retrieved by programs......these machines do......and that MIGHT present problems for those who travel through different time zones, etc. I suspect that the engineers (and programmers) might have reasons not to do that. But, it also may add more costs to these machines.


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Cell phones have been doing this for years by using the cellular signal.
Since my Airsense also uses a cellular signal, how much trouble would it be to synch with local time?

chunkyfrog wrote:Cell phones have been doing this for years by using the cellular signal.
Since my Airsense also uses a cellular signal, how much trouble would it be to synch with local time?

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the bigger problem may be time stamping the data that's being recorded......traveling back and forth between time zones and then at some point downloading the data.......which could potentially have a more "future" date/time than where you are at home downloading it.
Then, these machines are sold round the world and who knows what glitches that may present.


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