Motorola Nursery CONNECT40 Child Monitor (Binatone) (VM40CONNECT)

Every parent needs this
We have had this camera just over a month now. I wanted to wait and try it out before I posted a review. We currently sleep with the baby in a pack n play in our room but he also has a crib in his room. During the day i put him in the crib and at night he is in the pack n play. The camera is easily mounted so we just put a screw in both walls and move it back and forth if necessary. (Second camera just doesnt seem worth the money since he will be on is own soon).The sound quality is a little off. It seems to pick up my dog drinking water down the hall better then my son crying. But the video quality is spectacular. The night vision is amazing. We are currently sleep training and I am scared something will happen to him (always scared). And I was worried about the dark room but nope, i can see him.Some people complain about the blinking blue light, you can turn this off in the settings section. I personally like it so I feel a sense of privacy. It’s in our rooms and it makes me feel good I can see a solid like and be more sure no one is watching us.Pro:GREAT night visionGood camera qualityEasy to useEasy to moveLarge video rangeHandheld monitor battery lasts us long enough since we dont need it all night.App allows you to minimize video so you can do other things on your phone when your watching baby.Con:Second camera is kind of priceySound quality isnt the bestI can’t see to change it feom celcius to fahrenheit. It doesnt seem to be an option but it coule be user error.

Constant connectivity issues make this monitor useless
I reallllly wanted to like this monitor. I have no need for anything fancy, I just want to consistently see and hear my baby when they are asleep, I could care less about additional features or add ons.This monitor DOES NOT WORK.I repeatedly have connectivity issues between the camera and the parent monitor. Last night alone, it disconnected 4 TIMES OVERNIGHT. The only way to get it to reconnect is by unplugging the camera which is located in a SLEEPING BABY’S ROOM, waiting five minutes, and then replugging it in…sometimes not even that works! We have also lost sound completely requiring a reset as well.I contacted customer service who walked me through all the reset steps again, and again after I explained that we had completed all reset and repairing processes (on the camera, parent unit, and app) repeatedly. They did offer a replacement, but only if we ship them our faulty monitor and they receive and test it. This is completely unacceptable – I am supposed to send in a monitor (during a nation wide mail delay), wait for them to test it, and then mail me back a replacement…the whole time while NOT HAVING A BABY MONITOR.For a product that is developed solely to monitor the safety of your baby while sleeping, this concept is ridiculous. I asked for a refund or credit if they cannot give a replacement – nope, they can’t do that either.Their suggestion was to “borrow from a friend” while I wait for the replacement. I’m sorry, we are in the middle of global pandemic…resources like “borrowing from a friend” are not readily available nor do we have local friends or family to borrow from even if we weren’t in a state of social distancing and stay at home orders.I am beside myself with both the problems with this monitor as well as the response from customer services. Do yourself a favor and don’t waste your money – for a product intended to reduce anxiety and increase the safety of a baby, it will do the opposite.

I bought it for a shower gift and they have already hooked it up and said it works great. They are just waiting for the baby now and cannot wait to use it.

this thing is a poorly designed piece of garbage considering the price. literally 15-20 minutes before the battery runs out, it starts beeping loudly every 10 seconds and there is no way to turn off the beeping. the panning is very slow and the controls are inconvenient, there is no auto-pan, it regularly glitches and needs to be reset

This is a good quality baby monitor that does everything described and more.Even though it works perfectly most of the time it has its weird moments where it loses connectivity for no reason.a quick fix is to reboot the monitor.Another annoying point is the blinking LED on the side that you cannot turn off on the camera.I have the camera wall mounted on top of the crib but the blinking keeps getting reflected on the wall so I had to tape over it.Another minor annoyance is that the monitor’s resolution is smaller than using the app on your phone.When my son disappears off the monitor screen I can check on him using my phone which displays a wider angle.The last thing worth mentioning is the “LED” feature right under the camera lens. It sometimes turns on by itself even though we have it off in the settings.I wish the motion detector was better. When my son is fidgeting around I cannot track his movements. It only detects when he put him in bed and when we take him out (or when we open the curtains).The battery life is good, and so is the audio quality on the monitor.It’s worth considering that any kind of video recording will require an addon paid subscription.