Graco Baby imonitor Multi-Child Baby Monitor
- Monitor 2 children Or 2 rooms at the same time
- Two color sound lights let you see which child you are listening to as it switches between rooms
- Adjust volume and length of time to listen for each room
- Includes 2 child units and 2 parent units
- Three AAA batteries are required (included)
Product Description
For moms with more than one child, the imonitor? is like having an extra set of eyes and an added piece of mind. It comes with two child units and two parent units, making it possible to monitor the safety of two children located in two separate rooms. Dual color sound lights on the parent units allow for easy distinction between the sounds of both children during naptime, playtime and every time in between. Using the compact parent unit, moms can readily adjust the volume level and length of time for which they listen in on each room. With an extended range up to 2,000 feet and a convenient belt clip accessory, mom can run about her daily activities without losing audio on either child.Digital power gives the unit extended range for up to 2,000 feet. The monitor includes two rechargeable batteries and can also use 3 AAA batteries in each child unit for battery back up in case the power goes out in the middle of the night. The docking stations ensure that the units are always ready for use.
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Graco Baby imonitor Multi-Child Baby Monitor
- Baby Product: 0 pages (2007-06-27)
- Publisher: Graco Baby
- Label: Graco Baby
- Studio: Graco Baby
- Average Customer Review:
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- Sales Rank in Baby: #2276
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Summary: Worst Baby Product I Have Purchased 2008-06-27
Comment: This is the worst baby product I have purchased, and with twins, we have a lot of products.
Here are the problems:
1) one of the two monitors hardly ever sends a signal. For example, when I am in the basement with the two babies sleeping upstairs (2nd floor), I regularly have to either shut off the monitoring of the one room (to shut off the beeping indicating no signal), or I have to run up two floors to shift the monitor around to actually send a signal... and even that doesn't work sometimes. Based on this problem alone, the 2-Room monitoring functionality is basically useless to me.
2) the battery life is LOW! At night, I have to keep both receivers with me (charged and ready to go), so that halfway through the night when one dies, I can switch to the other one. And I can't plug the charger unit into the outlet near my bed, because it interferes with the monitor I have set up there, since one of the cribs is in our room right near my bed.
3) finally, as another reviewer pointed out, the receiver shifts from room to room in 10-second intervals. So if I think I hear something, I have to wait for at least 10-seconds for the monitor to cycle back to the room with the baby who is fussing. (assuming, of course, that both rooms are even working)
Bottom line -- it just doesn't make life any easier.
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Summary: Disappointed 2008-06-03
Comment: Great idea, but it doesn't work. It switches from room to room, the sound quality is horrible & the range is not what is promised. We experienced alot of interference and were disappointed with the product overall. We decided to go back and get another Sony babyCall.
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Summary: Has a few quirks but overall I'm incredibly satisfied 2008-04-10
Comment: Fantastic product...I couldn't be happier. We splurged for this dual monitor after a nightmarish experience with another, cheaper (in every aspect) product.
Pros:
+ Great range. I have it set up in bedrooms on opposite sides of a 2300sqft house and it monitors fine. I can even take a monitor into my backyard without losing signal.
+ Monitors are portable! They come with internal rechargeable batteries, which last at least 3 hours before they need a charge. When the battery is low it warns with a chime. Child units can also run on (non-supplied) batteries so the system will function even with a power loss.
+ There are 11 volume settings (including mute), which is enough to fine-tune your volume comfort level.
+ The LED lights are bright but they don't blink persistently. They're no brighter than an average alarm clock when everything's quiet. They're also color-coded so you instantly know who's making noise.
+ The monitors beep when you make adjustments, but it's a quiet beep that won't wake up your sleeping spouse.
+ Buttons are easy to find and manipulate even in the middle of the night. Unlike a prior reviewer I found the buttons and their combinations to be intuitive and easy to learn (and I'm not an engineer).
+ Something like 30 digital channels to ensure your neighbor's monitor won't interfere.
+ Monitoring intervals are adjustable - for example we can set it to monitor our older child's room for just 20 seconds at a time while devoting a longer 2 minutes to the baby. This might be one of the most attractive features for me.
+ Receivers are sensitive enough to hear any baby cries, but unless you have the volume up pretty loud you won't hear breathing or any other background white noise (humidifier, fan, etc).
Cons (there aren't many):
+ If you accidentally turn off the child unit you must turn the receiver off and back on before it will pick up the signal again.
+ Whenever we have a power loss or a thunderstorm, one (not both, just one...?) of the child units tends to get finicky with its signal and we have to try different channels.
+ Child unit's power and channel buttons are too close together and too hard to distinguish in the dark.
+ Okay, yeah, it's pricy. But well worth it in my opinion.
I was not put off by the cycling between units versus simultaneous monitoring. If you think a 10 or 20 second "blackout" is too long, this unit is not for you; but I have never found it to be a problem. I'd highly recommend this unit to anyone--it's well worth the cost.
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Summary: Decent range and sound quality, horrible horrible horrible user interface 2008-03-30
Comment: We liked this unit because of the dual transmitters and dual receivers; even if not using both, it allows us to leave the transmitters and receivers in different locations around the house. The receivers come with built-in rechargeable batteries and a charging cradle to we don't need to replace the batteries all the time. Add to that the digital transmission and we thought we had a winner.
Nope. Avoid this unit.
The sound quality and range is decent, about all one can expect from a cheap home unit. The trick to getting a good signal is to use the "pick channel" button on the side of the transmitter. Press this, and it seems to pick the best channel for where the receiver is located. The only downside is that if you move the receiver, you might need to get a new channel, which is a bit of a pain.
The problem is the user interface, in particular how to select on the receiver which of the two transmitters to use, or both. This interface was obviously designed by an Engineer. Big Mistake. Now I have nothing against engineers, being one myself, but we should not be allowed to design user interfaces, and this unit shows why.
To select between the transmitters, on the receiver you select how many seconds you want it to listen to each transmitter, and then it uses a simple TDM algorithm to switch between the two. If that made sense to you, congrats, you're an engineer, you'll like this unit.
For everyone else, what that means is that to switch from listening to transmitter A to transmitter B you need to hold down a button to indicate that you want to change how long to listen to transmitter A, while holding down that button you use the volume control to decrease the "listen time" for transmitter A to zero, then release the button, move a switch to indicate that you want to select transmitter B, hold down the button, and use the volume control to increase the listen time for transmitter B.
Huh?
Why oh why did Graco design it that way? Someone failed their job. Big time.
Until Graco changes their design, or you and your spouse are both engineers, avoid this unit.
Also, and this wasn't clear to me until I bought it, two points. You can't listen to both transmitters at the same time. You can set it to switch between the two every ten seconds (or less often), but you can't listen to both at once. The little LEDs light up to show you how loud the sound it. This is actually quite a useful feature, as it allows you to "see" if there is any sound from across the room without needing the volume on high.
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Summary: Was not impressed 2008-02-27
Comment: I'm not sure whether it was just my house or a bad unit but I thought the quality was terrible! On our old single unit you could hear my daughter breathing, on this unit I couldn't understand clearly what my husband was speaking directly into it. I also apparently didn't read the box good enough because I had also thought it would monitor both rooms at the same time. I don't like the time gaps between switching rooms so I would have returned the unit regardless.
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