Moms of 2 or more--monitor q

keri1013

We will need a monitor in both kids' rooms since they're a good distance from our bedroom, and we'll close their doors at night. If you have monitors in two (or more) rooms, do you have one receiver, or two? I want video monitors for both, but if we just have one receiver, does it switch from room to room every 30 seconds or something? I'm wondering if the sound from it switching will make me crazy and we should just get a second video monitor for DD's room and deal with two receivers.

jcyahne

We went with a video monitor set-up with just one receiver.  It does switch between rooms every 30 seconds or so.  I never noticed a sound with it switching rooms.  Ours is set so that you don't hear the baseline level of noise (e.g. if there is white noise playing).  So most of the time it is completely silent.

As a side note we purchased used two identical but complete video monitor sets.  We set-up two cameras and one receiver, and we had the second receiver as a spare.

Seattle_JiLLn

We had a video monitor for Ben already so we just got a second set up and have two receivers and two cameras. But summer makes newer models now that do what you want with switching back and forth.

keri1013

Thank you!

Mrs_Stevens

We started with one monitor and two cameras but quickly found it was easier to have two monitors. For us, the switching every 30 seconds or so would mean that we'd miss one of the kids screaming their head off while the other one got woken up by the noise. Also, our girls are on different nap schedules, so we'd often need the monitor to flip through both rooms most of the day and night, so we ran in to a problem with keeping the monitor charged. Finally, we got two monitors so my husband could monitor one child while I slept and kept an ear out for the other. This works out nicely because DD#2 wakes up about 2 hours earlier than DD#1. DH gets up with DD#2 and I'm able to snooze for those extra 2 hours. 

 

We have the Lorex monitors and cameras and so far (with the 2 monitors) they've been great!