cheap PC-driven camera for sleep study?

[Kalm_Traveler]

Kind of weird question I know - but I'm looking for a camera that I can set up to watch/listen to my sleeping because I have been diagnosed with severe insomnia and sleep apnea but my health insurance says they won't pay for a sleep study because in their words "your records show that you do not have insomnia or daytime sleepiness, so this is not medically necessary".

 

Anybody know of a good cheap camera with decent-enough IR night vision etc that I could have streaming to my PC in another room (and software to do the recording) ?

 

I guess a baby monitor camera would work but I have no experience with anything like this so not sure what to look for exactly.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Ryzen4Life]

Buy a cheap logitech webcam and the materials for this project, should get the job done well enough

 

https://www.instructables.com/id/Infrared-IR-Webcam/

[lightfire]

Hey there, I'm not sure if it would work, but some phones have sleep monitoring (I know iPhones do). Of course I don't know what phone you have but chances are it has such a thing. It monitors when you're sleeping, deep sleep, etc. No idea how it works, but it seems to be pretty accurate to me.

[Kalm_Traveler]

1 hour ago, Ryzen4Life said:

Buy a cheap logitech webcam and the materials for this project, should get the job done well enough

 

https://www.instructables.com/id/Infrared-IR-Webcam/

ahh good idea and thank you - that should work for sure

1 hour ago, lightfire said:

Hey there, I'm not sure if it would work, but some phones have sleep monitoring (I know iPhones do). Of course I don't know what phone you have but chances are it has such a thing. It monitors when you're sleeping, deep sleep, etc. No idea how it works, but it seems to be pretty accurate to me.

howdy - yes indeed they do sorta track sleep via movement. 

 

I have been wearing a Samsung Galaxy Fit 2 smart watch since they launched last I think October which also tracks it via heart rate, and for just over two weeks with an oximeter (the things they put on your finger to test how much oxygen is in your blood) which tracks oxygen, heart rate and movement.

 

I'm definitely moving a lot, and get random weird heart rate spikes from 40-50 suddenly up to 100-120 but I want a camera to see what the heck I'm doing during all this time.

[lightfire]

36 minutes ago, Kalm_Traveler said:

ahh good idea and thank you - that should work for sure

howdy - yes indeed they do sorta track sleep via movement. 

 

I have been wearing a Samsung Galaxy Fit 2 smart watch since they launched last I think October which also tracks it via heart rate, and for just over two weeks with an oximeter (the things they put on your finger to test how much oxygen is in your blood) which tracks oxygen, heart rate and movement.

 

I'm definitely moving a lot, and get random weird heart rate spikes from 40-50 suddenly up to 100-120 but I want a camera to see what the heck I'm doing during all this time.

Ah makes sense!