Baby video monitor help

All of my buddies have ones that do video and audio. They have tablet-sized screens that connect to the house wifi, and they can walk around the house and view them. Pretty neat stuff

We went with Foscam IP cameras. Can view them anywhere on our wifi, they have audio but we also use some cheap audio only monitors.

Can only share my experience.

We got one and I think it's still in the box somewhere. We just used the old school audio monitor.

We went with the Infant Optics DXR-8. I have no idea how well it will actually work, but initial tests and playing with it at day/night seem good so far. If I see this thread pop up in a week or two, I will update on how well it works. 20,000 reviews and 4.5 stars, so it must be decent.

When we hire a nanny in August, I think I am going to expand my Nest Cameras around the house. For liability reasons and peace of mind.

Check out Wyze cam. Full HD, two way audio, night vision, movement alerts, smoke alarm, CO alarm. Only $20. I have two and they work great so far.

https://www.wyzecam.com/

I feel like I’m very late to this thread, but our set up is a NestCam up in the corner and a super cheap audio only monitor.

The audio monitor let’s us know if she waking up and sort of grunting etc, and then we can pull up the nest app to see what’s going on. It’s worked well for us with both our kids.

I spent a lot of time 3 years ago researching this and most of the options just suck or don't have the things you want.

What I went with worked well. I went with a really nice audio baby monitor that had sleep monitoring and all that built in. Being just audio, it was a lot cheaper but still had as good or better features than the video ones on the market.

For video, I got an old iphone and got an app call cloud baby monitor that had a lot of great features in it as well. Mounted the old iphone over my kids bed and then downloaded the app on my phone as well.

Honestly the audio monitor is what I used the most. Get one that has lights on it that respond to sound in the other room. That visual sign also comes in handy.

I’ve got a 2 week old at home, my first, and decided to go with the Arlo baby, partly because I’ve used other Arlo cameras. It doesn’t have a dedicated monitor yet, but supposedly they are making one. However, with the app, you can use your phone, an iPad, an android device, anything that can run the app as a monitoring device. This does depend on your Wi-Fi network/internet connection. The amazon echo show can also be used as a monitor.

From my experience with it, there’s typically about a 1-2 second delay, two way sound, nightlight, night vision, plays lullabies/white noise or your own recordings, monitors temperature, humidity, air quality (I don’t know the metrics for this), and has legit 1080p video quality. It also has motion and sound alerts as well.

When the connection was spotty a few days ago, it was frustrating, but otherwise it has been good. You can also have the audio monitoring stay active with your device on standby. If/when they come out with a dedicated monitor that is not reliant on the internet, that would be killer.

After making my post, I decided to look into the monitor for the Arlo Baby. I guess, a month or two ago, they announced via some community forum that they were no longer going to put out a monitor because tablets such as the Amazon fire tablets worked so well with it. I downloaded the app onto my old fire tablet and it does work nicely. Because they are on the same Wi-Fi network, it does not need the internet to communicate, so it does function as a direct monitor. I’m puzzled as to why my phone doesn’t do the same, as my phone is also on the same network.