Question : Why did you buy this product instead of a video baby monitor? Is it just price, or something else? Trying to decide for myself!
Answer : The video monitors do no filter the noise coming from the baby’s room. We have a more expensive video monitor and ended up buying this one to replace it because the sound quality on the video monitor was terrible and when it transmitted the noise machine from the nursery it was impossible to sleep through. This monitor only transmits sound above a custom level that you set, so you don’t listen to every little peep from your little one, just the distress calls.
Question : Does the baby unit have a rechargeable battery too, or just the parent unit?
Answer : I would love for the baby unit to be battery operated but contrary to the first reply, it doesn’t have a battery mode to use without having to be plugged in, just the parent unit.
Question : Is anyone using two (2) of these units successfully without problems? We often have two grandchildren staying and would like to buy a second unit.
Answer : Yes, we have two units and are using them because we wanted more than 2 parent monitors. You cannot link the two, but we wanted more parent units. Here is what we did. Put both baby monitors in same room. One set of parent units will “hear” one of the baby monitors, the other set of parent units will “hear” the other baby monitor. Put the 4 parent units in the rooms we wanted them in. All 4 parent units will hear the same thing. Only drawback is that only 2 parent units can talk to each other; the other 2 parent units can talk to each other. Works for what we need. Gives us 4 parent units, and we put 2 for daytime use and 2 for night time. The daytime parent units are in different rooms, which we will be in during the day. The 2 for night time are near the bed or TV room. It has been working for us.
Question : Is the distance range really close to 1,000 feet? I want to use this as a barn monitor for baby goats, and our barn is quite a ways from the house.
Answer : During lambing season, we left the “parent” portion plugged in at the barn and the baby monitor in the house. I often had to relink the devices when I went down to the barn, but then I could listen to be sure everything was fine in the house or use the walkie talkie feature to page my husband for help during late-night treks to check for lambs. I’m not great at judging distances, but our barn is probably 200’-300’ away from the house and we were using it in the basement.
Question : I am going to use this with my 90 year old mom. Is there a button for her to turn on to talk to me?
Answer : We had the baby unit in my 86 year old mom’s house which was right across the street from our house. We had two monitors and it worked beautifully. She would just need to talk to me and I could go to the monitor and push the button to answer her.
Question : I have two children, can I operate two separate units in the same house?
Answer : What do you mean by that? there is a sender and a receiver. if you buy two sets, then you should be able to, but the radios aren’t like capable of changing dramatic frequencies that would be needed for two separate radios in close proximity… so they wont overlap. They are really meant for one set per household.
Question : I have a fan in my child room when they sleep because it help them sleep and wanted to know if the monitor would pick up the fan as it main noise?
Answer : I have a fan and a white noise machine on in her room and while it does pick up some noise (white noise machine is on the same stand as the receiver), it is not the main noise and I have always been able to clearly hear my baby.
Question : Can both the parent unit and the baby monitor run off of just batteries? I am looking for a travel unit and cannot plug it in.
Answer : The baby’s unit needs to be plugged in, and the parent’s unit works w/ the battery for couple hours but needs to be plugged in to charge the battery.
Question : SENSITIVITY is set to LEVEL 5, VOL 5, and I can barely hear Mom. Only 1-2 green lites when she makes any sound...? Anyone know why? Thx!
Answer : I’m not sure why but when I set the sensitivity to the highest, it picks up sounds from other rooms loudly. This is annoying to me because my dog will walk around the house at night. But when my baby cries, it fades in and out. I come to the conclusion that this is simply a real poor product. I won’t even bother troubleshoot it anymore. It’s a waste of effort.
Question : How long will the parent unit’s battery last when it is fully charged?
Answer : Not very long, we’ve gone through 2 of these things thinking maybe the battery was bad in one, but to no avail, both seem equally bad. There seems to be no indication that the battery is fully charged, the charging light stays red from what I can tell, I’ve charged it for 12+ hrs, take it off and almost immediately the battery percentage drops to 2 bars. All in all the battery lasts about 4 hrs in a silent house. If your child cries a lot I’d bet you get less.