Lowest BPM

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Richard Powrie

• November 29, 2018 22:23

Hello,

I see that the lowest BPM that can be set in the Doppel app is 30 BPM - can I suggest that you allow a much lower setting?

I personally want the Doppel to,help me relax, and being a musician, I like to think of rhythm in terms of “quarter time”... if my desired resting heart rate is 52 BPM, then, I’d prefer to set the Doppel to 52/4 = 13 BPM, rather than just simply “52”.  30 BPM is incongruous to any half or quarter time to 52.

In other words, I personally feel that 30 BPM is still too fast, and it would be nice to set it lower...if possible...

Thanks for listening,

Richard

 

 

 

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  Customer Support

  • December 05, 2018 10:09

  Hi Richard,

  Thank you for sharing feedback with us, we really appreciate your suggestions to make doppel even more valuable for you; you've made an excellent point. This is something we did consider and will perhaps revisit, as we’ve heard it mentioned once before from another customer.

  Our reasoning for not going below 30 BPM is centered around doppel's vibration simulating the ‘lub-dub’ of a heartbeat. As it’s rare to get a heart rate below 30 BPM, we capped this as the lowest setting to distinguish doppel from other wearables that identify more as metronomes.

  Our published tests demonstrated that using doppel at 20% below your resting heart rate has a significant calming effect. However, we are open to a conversation about possibly introducing lower settings. What are everyone else’s thoughts?

  Hannah

  doppel Community Manager

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