July 2019 Moms
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Product Spotlight **Baby Monitors**
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So many baby monitor choices!! What did you love, what did you hate? Video, no video!? Please share here!!
Re: Product Spotlight **Baby Monitors**
+ I liked having a closed-circuit video monitor that did not rely on wifi or an iphone. It seemed more secure, esp with those horror stories about baby monitors being hacked.
+ I liked that the video had night vision and was sound activated.
+ I liked the intercom because when DS was older, you could talk through it to tell him to go to sleep, and he would.
+ I liked that it had sensitivity settings, where you could choose how loud of noise would activated the monitor.
+/- It lasted 3.5 years before the rechargeable battery gave out.
+/- It had good range in the house, but if you went outside it did not work beyond the porch.
- I wish there was a way to plug in headphone jacks because the monitor would wake up both DH and me, regardless of whose night it was.
- I liked the peace of mind of the Oma, but in reality, newborns have irregular breathing patterns and sometimes the alarm would sound off for no reason, and it was loud, and hard to turn off because it had to be unclipped and would wake up the baby.
- The pre-recorded nursery music was loud and not soothing.
We've been using Samsung BrightView... I love it because it goes into "vox" mode and is able to turn off when white noise is on in their rooms. Some monitors won't turn off when you use white noise and you have to listen to it all night if you use it.
For video, we got a home security camera and just put it up in her room above her crib, mounted to the wall. We bought the Logitech Circle 2 camera - $180 when not on sale but I've seen it around $120 if you look on different websites. There's a wired version that plugs in and a wireless version - we bought the wired. I love it- zero complaints.
- I can view it from my phone by downloading the LogiCircle app, so both me and my husband can look in from anywhere.
- I can view it on my bedroom and living room televisions via our Shield device (would also work with AppleHome or Roku or anything where you can download apps).
- night vision
- automatically records anytime there is movement, keeps 24 hours of recordings for free, a month if you pay the subscription
- crystal clear video
- When using the phone app, you can speak through the camera
The downside is that it is not as easy as the plug and play baby monitors. There's some set up but if you or your SO are average handy, you can do it.
Here's an examples of what it looks like on the phone app, looks the same on the TV:
For audio monitor, we have the VTech two unit monitor. I am ambivalent - I feel the battery dies too quickly when not plugged in, but maybe that's an issue with all monitors. Other than that, it's fine. Long range! I only use the two hand units to switch out when one dies. Other than that, I have never use both hand units at the same time.
This is go around, we got the Arlo baby camera. It is a WiFi thing, but DH is an IT nerd and totally has everything as private and I’m not worried about security at all. We have the Arlo security system for security outside, so it’ll be nice to have an all in one ap for the babies too.
I think I’ll see how far we get with the Motorola before buying another for this one.
+1 to the owlet question. Any comments on that?
I'm still on the fence about getting one, but now that they are coming out with the video monitor, too. I'm thinking that we probably will get it. I think my last hold out is I want to be able to ask Alexa to integrate with it. I really think that would be valuable for babysitters or if my parents are over.
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