Philips AVENT Baby Monitor with Temperature and Humidity Sensors and New Eco Mode, White - Babyphone Discounters

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S. Ng “newbie” –

  

Monitoring – Does the core purpose very well. Very impressed with this technology. Sound is clear and no static or buzzing. People have complained that it’s not loud enough but I find it very suitable. It picks up sound very well (room is 8×10) and the unit is on one side of the room and baby on other. The unit doesn’t have to be beside the baby to pick up the sound.

Temperature – our nursery gets hot when the sun is out (faces west) so we wanted to make sure we would be first to know if it got too hot. You can set a range in temperature. If the temperature is outside of the range (either too hot or too cold), the hand unit will beep. Very handy when we are sleeping and the baby’s room warms up quickly. We get alerted right away. Both the base unit and hand unit displays temperature and humidity.

Humidity – very handy feature. During the winter, the air is dry. We were prompted to buy a humidifier by this device. It even helped us return a humidifier (crane penguin) that we found had no effect on humidity level. You can’t be alerted of humidity levels going out of a range but I don’t think its necessary.

Extras:
Lullabies – You can play different a few different songs but the duration was too short.

Lights to audio – when the baby cries, the hand unit lights up as well. As the baby is louder, more lights light up (up to the max five lights). It’s a nice feature to have. We have a set of headphones to watch the TV so as to not wake the baby. We just look for the lights to light up.

Muting – you can mute the hand unit but if the baby cries loud (5 lights up) but the hand unit will beep.

Intercom – When one parent is in the baby room and the hand unit is in the parent’s room, you can have use the intercom feature to talk to one another.

Battery – battery life is sufficient. Easily lasts a day off the cradle. We put it back on cradle located beside our bed to charge when we sleep. What does concern me is having to replace the battery. The batteries are NOT AA batteries. I hope we will be able to find a replacement battery when needed. Low batteries are signalled by a beep as well.

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Shantanu Sharma “Happy Man” (Washington, DC) –

  

I was skeptical of a baby monitor as expensive as this. I read the reviews and they seemed positive, so I decided to go in for it. It has features that are indeed useful. I like the fact that the parent unit is mobile and can be use to talk back to the child unit. The temperature and humidity gauges are also useful. I however ended up returning it for one simple but deal-breaking reason: the volume on the parent unit is not loud enough for it to grab your attention. I set the volume to maximum but even then I wasn’t able to hear my baby without literally keeping it in my shirt pocket or clipping it near my collar. If I had it clipped to my waist belt, the unit caught my attention only by the time the baby had begun to bawl. And this was in a silent and empty house! I had planned on using this unit to work around my 2 level house and potentially in the garden (with the baby on the same level as the garden). I don’t think that is possible because of the volume issue. In fact, I also have a basic, 5+ years old, hand-me-down monitor from Fisher Price and that thing is LOUD. There is NO way you will not be able to hear it if you are within earshot range.

I did more research on this and other DECT based Philips Avent models online and it turns out that this is a common problem. Don’t these guys know the basic purpose of a baby monitor?!

I had expected better from something as expensive as this. It really is like a fully loaded car that doesn’t perform its most basic function: take me from place A to place B.

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this monitor has excellent sound quality and we have used the lullabies at times to help our babies (twins) fall asleep. the humidity and temperature readings seem to be accurate, and i like knowing that the sound is encrypted and limited to our household as well. i subtracted one star because the noise readout is in the form of blinking strobe light bars, which can be annoying if you’re a light sleeper. i understand that this is supposed to help wake me up (as if the crying won’t do that on its own) but it would be better if the light flashed when the noise reached a certain threshold rather than registering 1 or 2 bars for subtle noises. we have a clock in the room that plays sleep sounds like ocean or rainfall and they tend to set off the monitor too.

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