The Daily view stacks one night's channels on a shared time axis. Read it top to bottom and the night tells a story. Flow rate — the breath-by-breath trace. This is the channel every event is scored from, and the one worth zooming into. Flattened tops, a sawtooth, or a run of shallow breaths followed by a big recovery breath all look distinct once you have seen them. Pressure — what the machine delivered. On an auto machine, watch where it rises: a pressure that climbs and then holds is responding to something. Leak — the channel that invalidates everything else when it goes wrong. A high leak stretch means the machine's event scoring over that stretch is unreliable, so read leak first and events second. Event markers — apneas, hypopneas, and the machine's own extra event types. Their clustering is usually more informative than their count. Snore / flow limitation, where your machine records them. Oximetry (SpO2 and pulse), when a compatible oximeter recorded that night. Three habits worth having: Zoom in. A whole night squeezed into one screen hides everything interesting. Ten-minute windows around a cluster are where the answers are. Check the axis before you react. Charts auto-scale; a dramatic-looking excursion may be two units wide. Nights run noon to noon. A session starting at 1 a.m. on the 15th belongs to the 14th's night. This is deliberate and it is why "my night is missing" almost always resolves to "it is on the previous date". Post a night in Data Talk if you want a second pair of eyes — there is a topic there on how to share a screenshot safely first. Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

This is the category for "here is my night, what am I looking at?". Before you post an image, take thirty seconds to make it safe to publish. Crop or blank these out Your name and the profile name, wherever they appear (usually top of the page). Your email address and any account identifier. The device serial number. Serials appear on device and settings panels and in some export views. They identify your specific machine. Dates, if you would rather not publish your calendar. The shape of a night reads fine without them. Anything belonging to somebody else — a clinic letter, a second person's profile, a family member's data. Keep these in — they are the whole point The chart itself: flow, pressure, leak, events. The scale on each axis. A waveform without its axis cannot be read. The time span you are showing. "One night" and "one month" produce very different-looking pictures. How to ask well Say what you expected to see and what surprised you. Say what changed recently — new mask, new pressure, a cold, a different room. Ask about a specific stretch: "the 40 minutes around 03:15", not "thoughts?". What you will get back Observations, pattern-spotting and questions. Not a diagnosis, and not a pressure prescription — nobody here can safely give you either, however confident they sound. Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

One more sighting of the same family, worth knowing before you report it: a view that still shows data you just deleted or cancelled. Deletions and cancellations finish in the background, and the app refreshes itself when the cleanup completes. If a chart or calendar looks stale in the meantime, press F5 — browsers cache these pages hard. If it is still there after a refresh and a minute of patience, that is a real bug and worth a report in Bug Reports. And the standing rule for everything on this board: numbers on a screen are a description of one night, not a verdict on your therapy. Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.

The reference versions, for anyone who would rather read than ask: How to Read Your CPAP Data: A Plain-English Guide to AHI, Leak Rate & Pressure — the whole page, in the order above. CPAP Leak Rate: What's Acceptable and How to Fix High Leaks — step 1, and the one that decides whether the rest is worth reading. One thing this board will not do: nobody here will tell you what to set your machine to. What a chart read gets you is a clear description of what is happening and when — which is what makes an appointment productive. Nothing on SomniTalk is medical advice. Talk to your own clinician before changing therapy.