ResMed AirMini Data: AHI & Usage

The ResMed AirMini is the most popular travel CPAP in the world, and it is also the one that frustrates data-minded users the most. If you have tried to open your AirMini nights in CPAP Clarity or any other analysis app and come up empty, you are not doing anything wrong. The AirMini simply does not store its data the way other machines do.

Here is the honest picture: what the AirMini app shows you, what it does not, why no app can read it, and the realistic ways to see more.

The short answer

The AirMini has no SD card. On a ResMed AirSense or AirCurve, the machine writes a detailed record of every night to a memory card, and that card is what an analysis app like CPAP Clarity reads. The AirMini skips the card entirely. It sends a summary to the AirMini app over Bluetooth and uploads the rest to ResMed online.

So you can see a nightly summary in the app, but there is no file to export and nothing for an outside app to open. That is a limitation of the AirMini hardware, not of the software you are trying to use.

What the AirMini app shows you

Connect the AirMini to your phone over Bluetooth and the app gives you a therapy score out of 100 for each night. According to ResMed, that score is built from four things:

• Hours used (by far the largest share of the score)
• Mask seal, a measure of how much air leaked around your mask
• Events per hour, which is your AHI
• Mask on and off, how many times you took the mask on or off during the night

That third item is the one people care about most. ResMed describes "events per hour" as the number of apneas and hypopneas you have each hour, "also known as the apnea-hypopnea index (or AHI)." In plain terms, an apnea is a pause in your breathing and a hypopnea is a partial one. So you can see your AHI on an AirMini. It is right there in the app, alongside your hours and your seal.

Your most recent night sits on the app's home screen, and you can scroll back through previous nights. That summary is genuinely useful for tracking how consistent your nights are over time, and it is worth bringing to your sleep doctor. If you want help making sense of those numbers, our guide on how to read your CPAP data walks through what AHI, leak, and pressure actually mean.

What you cannot get from an AirMini

The app gives you the summary. It does not give you the detail underneath it.

On a machine with an SD card, you can see a graph of your pressure across the whole night, a leak-rate trend, a timeline of exactly when each event happened, and flow-limitation detail that hints at airway narrowing before a full event. None of that is available from an AirMini, because none of it is written to a card you can pull out and read. The detailed record goes straight to ResMed's servers, and the app only hands back the nightly summary.

That is the trade you make for a machine that fits in a jacket pocket. The AirMini is built for travel and simplicity, not for deep data.

Why no app can read AirMini data

CPAP analysis apps work by reading the files on your machine's SD card and decoding every breath and every event. The AirMini has no card and produces no file to hand over, so there is nothing for any app to open. It is not that one app is better than another here. With no exported data, the door is simply closed.

This is worth saying plainly because a lot of people lose an evening trying card readers and adapters that were never going to work. If your only machine is an AirMini, that detailed view is not available to you today, no matter which app you try.

How to see more from your AirMini nights

You are not completely stuck. There are three realistic paths.

Ask your supplier or sleep doctor for a report. Your equipment provider and your sleep clinic can pull a full therapy report from ResMed's professional system, with your AHI, leak, pressure, and usage laid out night by night. If you want the detailed numbers, this is the most direct way to get them. Our guide on getting your CPAP data to your doctor covers what to ask for and how to use it in the appointment.

Add a pulse oximeter for the one thing the AirMini never measures: your oxygen. The AirMini does not track blood oxygen at all, so a small overnight recorder like the Wellue O2Ring (opens in new tab) fills the biggest gap in its data. It clips on your finger, records your oxygen and pulse all night, and you can analyze that data free at CPAP Clarity with no account and no upload to anyone's server. Pairing an oximeter with your AirMini score gives you a much fuller view of your nights. Our pulse oximeter guide explains what the readings mean.

Consider a machine with a card slot if detail matters to you. If reading your own breath-by-breath data is important, a CPAP that writes to an SD card gives you the full picture the AirMini cannot. That includes ResMed's home machines and several travel models that kept a card slot. Our travel CPAP comparison lays out which small machines still let you read your own data.

Keep your record complete when you travel

Plenty of people use a card-based machine at home and grab the AirMini only for trips. If that is you, those travel nights do not have to leave a hole in your history. In CPAP Clarity, once you have imported at least one night from your main machine, you can go to your history page and mark any travel night as a night you used CPAP without data. Those nights then stay in your CPAP Clarity history and count toward your usage consistency, so a trip does not leave a false gap. It is your own record rather than proof of use for an insurer, but it keeps your picture honest and complete when one of your machines cannot export its data.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can any app read my AirMini data?

No. CPAP analysis apps read the files on a CPAP's SD card, and the AirMini has no card and no file to export. There is nothing for any app to open.

Can I see my AHI on an AirMini?

Yes. The AirMini app shows "events per hour," which ResMed defines as your apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), along with your hours of use, mask seal, and a nightly score out of 100.

Can CPAP Clarity read AirMini data?

Not directly, for the same reason no app can: there is no SD card to read. You can still use CPAP Clarity for a pulse oximeter or sleep wearable you use alongside your AirMini. And if you also import a card-based machine, you can mark your AirMini travel nights so your history stays complete.

How do I get a detailed report from my AirMini?

Ask your equipment supplier or sleep doctor. They can print a full therapy report from ResMed's professional software, which includes the detail the patient app leaves out.

Does the AirMini have an SD card?

No. It connects to your phone over Bluetooth and uploads to ResMed online. There is no card slot, which is why detailed offline analysis is not possible.

The bottom line

The AirMini gives you a clean nightly summary and your AHI in the app, and that is enough for a lot of travelers. What it does not give you is the detailed, exportable data that an analysis app like CPAP Clarity is built to read, because there is no SD card behind it. If you want more, your clinic can hand you a full report, and a pulse oximeter can add the oxygen picture your AirMini was never designed to capture.

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