DECT Baby Monitor, SCD501/10

We went through I don't know... 4 or 5 baby monitors before finding this one. At this point, I don't know if you're going to get a perfect product but for us this one is darn near close. A little background: We had twin boys in December of 2014 -- they were premmie and if you've ever dealt with a premmie you know you're not doing a lot of sleeping... partially because you're scared to death they're going to stop breathing at any moment(but usually while you're trying to sleep) and partially because they're noisy little suckers -- it's like tending to baby goats. We had an additional problem in that the range of the video monitor that we used with our daughter would not reach to our bedroom so we had to come up with another solution. We finally settled on, after much discussion about Russians watching our babies sleep(conclusion, who cares) a Dropcam(now Nest) coupled with an audio monitor might work -- I bought the Safety 1st Baby monitor which worked most of the time, but it also sent over a lot of static and if you left it on too long it would freak out -- it finally broke after a year(it's a good thing because I had developed a strong hate for it) We then tried several more, most of them did not work because of range -- the ones that did were noisier than our baby goats-- The Philips Avent DECT baby monitor was the hail mary toss in baby monitors -- turns out it had no problem with the range AND the big winner is.. if there's no noise, it doesn't make any noise -- AHHHHH, at least for some of the night I now have peace and quiet instead of listening to their rain machine and static all night long -- it has a built in noise gate, which is triggered when ambient noise rises beyond a certain point and it's quite sensitive. We actually place the monitor outside of their door. The first few nights of using it, I was afraid it would not respond if the babies make noise, but it does... every time...I sat there with dropcam(which has a slight delay) and the monitor one night and it didn't miss one baby sound-- I completely trust it now and our quality of sleep has improved dramatically -- I highly recommend this monitor-- Oh and it works with 220v as well, we took it to Germany, yeah ...twin babies in Germany, I don't know what we were thinking....

This monitor does a great job. The baby room unit is wired to the power outlet. The remote unit can be run by batteries or by a power cord. We use ours with 2x Amazon-branded rechargeable AA batteries. It requires two AA batteries. The unit will NOT recharge your batteries for you, even if you plug it in. You'll need to use a standard battery charger to recharge the batteries, if you're using rechargeables. It doesn't come with batteries, so you'll need to supply your own. Important Note: it will sound like it's cutting out once in a while, or often. It isn't. It tries to save battery power by only transmitting sound when there's something to send. If the room is very quiet, it won't send any audio at all. If you have a fan running in the background, you'll sometimes hear it and sometimes you won't. This is NOT a problem. It will transmit audio EVERY TIME your baby is making noise. We're in a neighborhood with a lot of WiFi traffic, but not a lot of houses. We have had no noticed interference issues with this monitor set. Also, supposedly the audio is encrypted. This was a requirement for us. I don't notice any lag in audio, though it does take about three seconds for the units to negotiate a conversation before audio starts streaming. These provide only one-way audio. The remote unit does not have any means of sending audio to the baby room unit.

We use this excellent audio wireless monitor as a security device, allowing us to monitor at night a 50 foot radius area near our home back doors and garage door. We can literally hear footfalls on the gravel near the doors! Sound quality is excellent and the volume controls simple to use. We have not tested the battery charge time as we rarely unplug it from it's 120v power adapter. The ambient sound cancelling/silencing feature seems very reliable. We awaken each morning to the sound of Doves "Coo-cooing" each morning (unfortunately well before sunrise!). Would definitely buy again & highly recommend.

When the parent unit is not plugged in, the battery dies within 2-3 days. For a relatively expensive piece of equipment, this is entirely unacceptable (and unexpected).

The product was shipped the seller from USA and works perfectly as described.

We live on a farm and I am able to hear down the hill to the house about 20m from my daughter's bed.

Hasta ahora ha funcionado bastante bien el equipo. Tiene un buen diseño, de uso simple e intuitivo, con buena calidad de audio, y hasta ahora no hemos captado interferencias de ningún tipo. El único punto en contra es que los primeros niveles del volumen son algo bajos, y sólo se escucha bien en los niveles 4 y 5. Pero eso no le quita ningún mérito. En resumen, el equipo es sencillo de operar, funciona correctamente, y tiene un precio bastante accesible.

I’ve waited 6 months before posting a review and have not had any issues with this monitor at all. If you’re looking for a simple monitor that allows you to hear when your baby cries then this does the job. I was really put off by the bad reviews but glad I didn’t pay attention to them. We have a big three storey house and the monitor works great throughout. I leave one end plugged in to the baby’s room all the time and the the other is plugged into the kitchen. The audio is loud enough that I rarely have to take it with me but if I do I just unplug (have charged batteries in there). White noise isn’t really an issue as the audio stops picking it up after a little while but turns on again if there’s a new noise like the baby crying. The only two annoying things are that the monitor will beep if it is turnered on but the receiver is not and that the monitor makes a loud noise when you turn it off. Honestly though hardly an issue. I’m so glad I didn’t spend more on a “fancier” model, this one will do us just great!