Babysense Video Baby Monitor with 2 Digital Cameras, 2.4" LCD Display, Infrared Night Vision, 2 Way Talk, Room Temperature, Lullabies, Long Range

We have had an Infant Optics DXR-5 for 3 years since our son was born. We have been pleased with it, though it was certainly nothing fancy. With the arrival of our second child, we decided we still wanted to have a camera for our son for another year and one for the new baby. We looked at just adding a camera to the DXR set up, but unfortunately, the model was old and finding a camera was ridiculously expensive, so much so that it made sense just to buy a whole new system. I did a lot of research and came upon this, which seemed like practically the only model that had 4 stars but also came with two cameras. I read a lot of the reviews and actually laughed at a lot of the negative ones. People don't seem to realize the price point at which this exists and you have to understand what you are going to get at such a point. Truthfully, this has way more features than we had before and we really don't even care to have. I want to be able to see our kids. Boom. That's it. But I suppose all the other features this comes with are neat, they just aren't really things we will use much. Most importantly, the cameras work well. If you are expecting some kind of 4k, HD type of set up, you are barking up the wrong tree here. Expect to pay hundreds of dollars. Who needs that stuff anyway? The quality of film from this camera is VERY GOOD and absolutely all you truly need. It blows away the DXR-5 we had. Like I said, we were pleased with that; it did what we needed it to do. But this picture is way better. It was really just a nice bonus. All the other features... I haven't played with a whole lot. The looping feature is great and perfect for what we need between two rooms. We have a split bed floor plan and pretty good size house. There are no issues with connectivity from a pretty good distance and through numerous walls. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of... the cameras in the rooms plug in and stay turned on, even if you turn off the main unit. Not a deal breaker by any means and you could always just unplug it. The other model we had gave you the ability to turn it off. No big deal and doesn't impact the value of this setup. My favorite thing? It does not impact your wifi. For the last two years we had to turn off the main unit once our son was asleep if we wanted to use the wifi. This one does not interrupt it at all. It was a very pleasant surprise... I was anticipating having to get a new router to help with issues. Now it is not necessary. If you need a basic two camera set up, stop looking and just get this one. As with many things I purchase, the only question I will have is... does it hold up over time? There is a one year warranty with this so it does buy us time. One more plus; customer service contacted us after we order and then after we received the product. Not a necessary thing but a very nice gesture to ensure our satisfaction with the product. I will update as needed and if necessary.

For the price this thing is awesome. I did have a problem with the item recently, but turns out that the customer service is so good with this company that I can't even knock a star off for that. The power button on the monitor actually broke and it wouldn't power on any more. I contacted customer service, explained the situation to them, and they sent me a new one no questions asked. With the new one, I'm going to be a little more ginger with the power button. I dismantled the old one after I knew I was getting a replacement and I found that the plastic inside the mechanical part of the button blew out the back. The spring purchase went with it and it wouldn't return any more. I was actually able to get the thing to fire up with a jumper wire, so there was nothing wrong with it except for the 200 lb gorilla at the business end of that button ham fisting it. The engineers at Babysense would do well to add a stop to the housing on this so that the button can't be pressed so far into the component on the board. As for the functionality before it broke, I can't complain. The image is clear, the volume is excellent, night vision is good. Range is also good and the battery life is quite long compared to two other monitors we've used. This unit was a replacement for a Lorex that had a laundry list of problems, and other than the lack of a couple of features like being able to pan the camera and remote WiFi viewing (which we never used BTW, and probably just served to create a security hole in our WiFi network), this unit compares well in functionality, and yes, in spite of the failure, reliability. That Lorex eventually got recalled because the batteries in the monitor would swell up and create a fire risk (Lithium is no joke when it burns), so for half its life I had just removed the battery and used it only plugged in to the wall until I found out about the recall which the company had failed to notify me of even though they had several interactions with us on warranty repairs. Since the Babysense came with a pair of cameras instead of just one and works just as good with the features we actually use, I think a quarter of the price is a hell of a deal on this thing. Couple all of this with the great customer service (Lorex was a nightmare to deal with too), I think you can't go wrong. Just don't squeeze that power button so hard like you want to when there's a baby in your arms exploding your eardrums ;).

I have two kids under two and I bought this with the two cameras and it works pretty well. Range: We live in a 2700 sq feet house. The range is BETTER than other monitors we have tried (infant optics blue one). The connections drops sometimes when we put it next to our phone or are at the other end of the house and there's a million walls and appliances it has to go through. Otherwise, we have no issues with dropping connection. The monitor will beep to let you know if the connection is dropped and it usually picks it back up within a second. This is the only con i have of the product. if the connection NEVER dropped I would LOVE it. The two cameras: One of the best features. The main monitor will rotate between the two cameras so I can see both kids in their own room from the master bedroom. Great image. Video attached! Image quality: If the room is dark, the image will appear in black and white. I can see if their eyes are open or closed even if their room is dark. If there is light in the room the image is in color. Great quality image overall, no complaints. Zoom: If the camera is able to capture the baby's whole body I can hit the zoom feature and it will zoom into her face The two way talk: I love this feature because if my toddler wakes up in the middle of the night I can say, "go back to sleep its still bed time" and she will! No need to get up!! The sound quality is awesome.

***Update: We have now had the cameras for 19 days and maybe used them 5 times. I just plugged them in today again and now there is no audio on the monitor, only a high pitched noise. I have contacted the seller and will update if and when resolved. 19 days is not great quality for a system that isn't even used daily. Even at the $70 lightning deal rate, it's not worth it with the issues we've had since the beginning. Hopefully they will send a new system and this is just a faulty set?!*** I just received this yesterday and it shipped just as fast as it was supposed to. This set really is decent and affordable on a budget. The picture quality is decent. It is smaller than I expected but as small and portable as it is, it's not like it is difficult to just move it closer to your face to see. The microphone option is amazing and the kids like that I can talk to them through the monitor. The lullabyes are really really loud...I haven't figured out if those can be turned down yet. The cons that I have found so far are that one of the cameras keep malfunctioning. The screen keeps "blipping" and turning different colors, then it goes back to normal. The other camera seems to be working just fine and doesn't do that. These are definitely not wide angle cameras so if it is a big room, don't expect to catch all of it. We do have over sized bedrooms so that might not be an issue for most but for us, one camera only catches half of the room like tunnel vision almost. Like I said, that may be because our rooms are oversized. The next issue i'm having is the cameras and monitors losing connection. I have the monitor sitting in the same spot and the cameras aren't being moved and it will just suddenly lose connection for about half a minute, sometimes less, and then come back on. It has happened 3 times now just in the amount of time it has taken me to write this review and a couple times before but like I said, I just got this yesterday so probably not the best sign. I'm going to give it about a week and see how it all works out. If they continue to lose connection etc...or the one camera continues "blipping" (?) I will probably just send it back and find a different system. I will update with whatever we decide to do with it.

Overall this is a pretty good baby monitor. I dock it two stars though because it's only "OK" some nights. It works well 90% of the time, but sometimes it randomly looses it's connection and beeps. This is disturbing if you're a light sleeper. I sleep about 30 feet away from my daughter with a hallway (two walls) between us. This doesn't seem all that far, so I'm not sure why it sometimes looses the connection. It literally finds it again about 2 seconds later without any action from me. Just annoying enough to wake me up. That said, the picture quality is good. It's ability to turn off the screen and keep audio, or turn off the screen while muted and use only the lights for indicators of sound is why I keep using it. I've also had it for over a year now and the battery life is still good.

This is a great unit. I ordered it initially because the pictures & reviews show a micro-usb charging port for the parent unit. My wife has a habit of leaving the monitor on, so the battery is often dead when it's needed. This would allow is to charge it anywhere around the house, where we have a myriad of cell phone chargers. But the unit I received had a round plug. I reached out to the manufacturer, and received a response immediately. They explained that this was a very recent change, based on customer feedback, and believed it would be more sturdy. They're probably right, but I really wanted the micro-usb charging port, and explained why. They still had some of those in stock, and were kind enough to ship me one of those parent units at no charge. So A++++ customer service. The system itself works great. We use the parent unit 2-3 rooms away, and have zero signal issues. The nightvision is fantastic, and the sound quality is great. We've had it a week or so now, and have absolutely no complaints. The only real downside is that the battery life sucks with the screen on, but that's true of all these units. But this has a great feature where if you tap the power button once it will turn the screen off and leave everything else on. Definitely a great feature, then the battery will last a long time. One small suggestion: A slightly heavier base for the camera would be helpful. I set something on it, but without that even tapping the power cable will re-point the camera.

There's lots of reviews for this baby monitor from people with ONE REVIEW, which should have been a red flag for us about the legitimacy of the reviews. This baby monitor has several major flaws: Unit will not shut off screen when you have two cameras and are auto cycling through them (to monitor both kids), so battery will easily drain if you don’t manually shut it off. Not sure why they did that. Also if no in “eco” mode, screen will not shut off on its own, draining your battery. Our old monitor auto shut off the screen after 30 secs but left audio on so battery wouldn’t drain. Pretty simple. You need the audio to monitor your kids but just the screen for a few moments to check what’s going on. I don’t know what the “engineers” who designed this were thinking. Next, the unit emits a shrill BEEPING sound whenever it loses connection. Another trrrible design. PARENTS SLEEP WITH THR MONITOR NEXT TO THEIR BED! So this monitor woke up my wife last night beeping because it had temporarily lost connection. I mean, maybe that’s necessary if it can’t find a connection after a minute to warn the parents that it isn’t getting a signal. But this unit beeps loudly immediately, waking you up. Another terrible, terrible design. Also, the power cable to the cameras is TOO SHORT. Not sure why they made these cables only 6.5 feet long. If I stretch the camera as high as the power cable allows, the camera still isn't high enough to see the whole crib. Why would i want to monitor only part of the crib? I want the whole crib, you know? It's like, huh? So so weird. I had to go out and buy an outside micro usb extension cable just to have enough height. Really a head scratcher... Finally although the picture quality is decent, the frame rate is not. Be aware it is not full motion, only a semi full motion, so movements are not totally clear. All in all I could live with the bottom two problems, but the beeping and battery drain issues are a deal breaker and we’ll have to find another unit soon that doesn’t needlessly keep us up at night and drain the battery.

I am in love with this monitor! We have only had it a couple of days, but we love it! I spent a lot of time researching for a dual camera monitor for my toddler & 10mon old after our Levana monitor died after 3yrs. Pros: set up was a breeze, option of focusing on one camera or switching between the two every 10sec, picture is super clear regardless if room is pitch black, super bright or somewhere in between, ability to talk to your child, battery life is great so far (we keep it plugged in overnight, but it lasts between 2 naps for our 10mon old & a 3hr nap for our toddler no problem!), easy to use, ability to save your battery & just listen & not use video, super light if you’re looking to carry the parent monitor around, haven’t had any issues getting reception throughout our home Cons: honestly haven’t found any yet! I will say the temp reading is off, but that is not a huge concern for us. I would say it reads between 3-4° warmer than what the room actually is. I was nervous that the screen was going to be too small, but it’s a great size & the picture is clear (we can easily see the baby in his crib & our toddler in his bed). Especially for the low price point in comparison to other monitors, this monitor is great! I will change my review in the future if an issue occurs since I am currently writing this review after a couple days use. Would definitely purchase again!