If Sleep Sensing doesn’t work as expected, find your issue in this article to help you fix it.
Sleep calibration uses your breathing motion to locate how far away you are from your Nest Hub when you sleep. Calibration may fail because of your Nest Hub’s position or other movement in the room.
- Remove any objects between you and the display screen.
- Check that your Nest Hub is:
- Within 1 foot (30 cm) of the height of your mattress
- Nearby and within arm’s reach
- Facing your torso when you’re lying in bed
- Check for moving objects like fans, rocking chairs, and swaying curtains.
- Make sure nothing else in the room moves while Sleep Sensing calibrates.
- While you’re asleep, moving objects should be farther away from Nest Hub than you are, even if they don’t block the screen.
- Recalibrate Sleep Sensing while no one else is in the room, including pets.
- Swipe up from the bottom of your Nest Hub display screen.
- Tap Settings
Sleep Sensing
Calibrate device.
- Follow the on-screen steps.
You may need to update your settings in the Google Home app.
- Turn on Personal results:
- Open the Google Home app
.
- Tap Home
All devices
, then touch and hold your device's tile.
- Tap Settings
Recognition & Sharing
Personal results.
- Turn on Personal resultsthen tap Show proactively.
- Open the Google Home app
- Check your display's access to Fit:
- Open the Google Home app
.
- At the top right, tap your Profile pictureor Initial.
-
Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your Google device .
- If correct, tap Close
to exit the account window.
- If you need to switch accounts, tap the drop down
another account or Add another account.
- If correct, tap Close
- Tap Home
All devices
.
- Touch and hold your Nest Hub's tile, then tap Settings
.
- Tap Sleep Sensing
Assistant access to Fit.
- Check that Sleep datais on.
- Open the Google Home app
Check that you use the same account for Google Fit and Nest Hub. Make sure your settings are also correct in the Google Home app.
Check Nest Hub:
- Open the Google Home app
.
- At the top right, tap your Profile pictureor Initial.
-
Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your Google device .
- If correct, tap Close
to exit the account window.
- If you need to switch accounts, tap the drop down
another account or Add another account.
- If correct, tap Close
- Tap Home
All devices
.
- Touch and hold your Nest Hub's tile, then tap Settings
.
- Tap Sleep Sensing, then check that it’s on.
- If it’s not on, tap Set up Sleep Sensingand follow the steps.
- Tap Assistant access to Fitand check that the settings you want are on.
Check Google Fit:
- Open the Google Fit app.
- At the top right, tap your account.
-
Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your Google device .
- If correct, tap Close
to exit the account window.
- If you need to switch accounts, tap the drop down
another account or Add another account.
- If correct, tap Close
- Check settings in the Google Home app:
- Open the Google Home app
.
- Tap Home
All devices
, then touch and hold your device's tile.
- Tap Settings
Sleep Sensing.
- Check that Sleep Sensing is on.
- Open the Google Home app
- Check settings on your Nest Hub (2nd gen):
- On the display screen, swipe up from the bottom, then tap Settings
.
- Check that Sleep Sensingis on.
- Make sure that Motion Senseis on.
- On the display screen, swipe up from the bottom, then tap Settings
- Recalibrate Sleep Sensing:
- Swipe up from the bottom of your Nest Hub display screen.
- Tap Settings
Sleep Sensing
Calibrate device.
If you set up Nest Hub Sleep Sensing after Fitbit, Fitbit remains the default sleep service in your voice assistant settings. When Fitbit is the default sleep service, you’ll only be able to find your sleep summary data in the Google Fit app.
To let Nest Hub show your sleep data, change your default sleep service:
- Open the Google Home app
.
- At the top right, tap your Profile pictureor Initial.
- Tap Home settings
Google Assistant
Wellness.
- Tap Sleep
Google Fit.
- Check Home app settings:
- Open the Google Home app
.
- Tap Favorites
or Devices
.
- Tap Home
All devices
, then touch and hold your device's tile.
- At the top right, tap Settings
.
- Tap Sleep Sensing,then turn on sound events tracking.
- Open the Google Home app
- Check that the Nest Hub microphone is on.
- The switch is on the back. It should be switched to the right so that no orange shows.
Your Nest Hub placement and nearby people, pets, or noises can cause inaccurate readings.
- Remove any objects between you and the display screen.
- Check that your Nest Hub is:
- Within 1 foot (30 cm) of the height of your mattress
- Nearby within arm’s reach
- Facing your torso when you’re lying in bed
- To help Nest Hub distinguish between you and co-sleepers, recalibrate Sleep Sensing when no one else is in the room, including pets:
- On your Nest Hub display screen, swipe up from the bottom.
- Tap Settings
Sleep Sensing
Calibrate device.
- Follow the on-screen steps.

