Garmin Skin Temperature in Garmin Connect//Sleep Tracking
I’ve been reporting here on this site that Garmin has been introducing skin temperature tracking on numerous models for several months. Finally, things appear to be moving onwards and upwards, and we now see an albeit limited move as skin temperature starts to be selectively shown on Garmin Connect as part of SLEEP TRACKING.
Skin Temperature will likely only work on watches that have Garmin’s latest ELEVATE Gen 5 sensor.
The latest, full list of beta features are these
- Muscle Map: 2.33
- Activity Icon Animations: 1.04
- Golf Course DB: 1.03
- Adds new activities for team sports, racket sports, and more.
- Adds the Nap glance.
- Adds wrist-based Run Power support.
- Adds wrist-based Running Dynamics visible in Garmin Connect.
- Adds the Red Shift control, which changes the display color to red, green, or orange to preserve night vision in low light.
- Adds a Workouts app to the Activities list.
- Adds skin temperature data to sleep tracking in the Garmin Connect app.
And I can confirm that those features are first added to the Garmin Venu 3.
We will likely next see them soon added to the PRO models of the Garmin Fenix 7 and Garmin Epix.
Edit (see vpier comment below): Garmin now says, “Skin Temp feature was inadvertently included in the change log and is not yet available to public beta.”
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That’s a nice find 🙂
Since we see a SkinTemp folder already exists in the EPIX Pro Beta 15.68, when do you think that we should see it, in the next beta release or the next beta cycle, i.e. 16.xx?
Moreover there is a typo I think where you mention that Skin Temperature will be available on HR Gen 3, most probably you mean Gen 5, right?
oops! ty. yes gen 5
if we dont see it in the next 2 or so weeks then it will be Q1 next year i reckon
Well with holiday season around the corner, if Garmin wants to be on par with other smartwatches, skin temperature will be coming in this beta cycle.
Is it me or the feature gap between the Fenix line and 9xx forerunner is getting wider? Specially with the 965 that does not have the latest OHRM.
I suppose components have to get released at some point and the 965 got the amoled but not the Gen 5 OHR.
I’ll stick with my hrmpro 😉
@tfk, @the5krunner, seems like skin temp was removed from Venu 3 beta as it appears in the below comment from a Garmin employee:
“Skin Temp feature was inadvertently included in the change log and is not yet available to public beta.”
ha !
love it
thank you for that. Garmin’s information management is a joke.
Indeed!
This is though the best time to release this functionality for two reasons:
– Flu season is full on
– Get’s released just before the holiday season, improved sales over AW/AWU for Venu/Fenix/Epix series respectively
Let’s see, I am confident we will see this coming in the next couple of weeks.
With the release of 15.69 skin temperature is moving away from this quarter beta I think.
@tfk, @the5krunner, Skin temperature went silently live, at least for my Garmin Epix Pro. Just go to Sleep card and you get a notification that: “Your Garmin smartwatch now detects changes in your skin temperature as you sleep….” and then you get the avg. skin temperature while sleeping under the Sleep Timeline Metrics. Unfortunately you don’t get any detailed graph of how your skin temperature changed during sleep or versus your sleep cycles as you can with the other metrics, e.g., the HR or Pulse OX or HRV, etc.. Hopefully this will come with the next release.
Note that you need to wear your watch for at least 3 days.
thank you!
https://the5krunner.com/2023/12/06/garmin-q4-features/