Buy Philips AVENT Baby Monitor with Temperature and Humidity Sensors and New Eco ModePhilips AVENT Baby Monitor with Temperature and Humidity Sensors and New Eco Mode Product Description:
- 100% interference-free dect technology provides extra long range of up to 1,000ft - new ?eco? mode helps reduce energy consumption when monitoring baby from a shorter distance
- Temperature and humidity sensors
- Soothing lullabies and nightlight comforts baby to sleep
- Volume control and talk back ? two way communication at all times
- Ultra small parent unit includes vibration mode
Product Description
Stay always connected to your baby with Philips AVENT’s new DECT Audio Baby Monitor with Temperature and Humidity Sensors, SCD535/00. This state of the art monitor provides crystal clear sound plus temperature and humidity monitoring. Baby’s peaceful rest can be affected by changes in his or her sleeping environment. The humidity sensor measures moisture levels, detecting dry air that may irritate your baby’s throat. The temperature sensor helps you keep the climate comfortable and consistent in baby’s room. DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication) technology guarantees a secure, private connection with zero interference at a range of 1,000ft. Talk back feature allows you to comfort your baby from anywhere in the home, giving mom or dad complete control, comfort and assurance. Sleek, small parent unit features vibrate option, and built-in nightlight and soothing lullabies help lull baby to sleep.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Satisfied
By NC65
I have owned this monitor for a year now and I am satisfied with the purchase, although I don't completely love it.Features: I love the temperature and humidity features. The alert to warn you if the temperature is too high is pretty annoying, so I just leave that turned off. I am more than capable of checking the screen myself. The music feature I also don't use as I have another sound machine in the baby's room, but the songs are decent and I have turned it on a couple times on the 'play all' setting. I don't think the music is 'soft' enough to help my son fall asleep; it is a little mechanical sounding.Handset: We usually turn the handset on around 8:30 at night and it lasts a little more than 12 hours before it needs charging again. Note: You are able to keep the handset on while you charge if you need to. One of the reasons I don't love this monitor is the issues I have encountered with charging the handset. Unless you have it perfectly aligned and leaning a certain direction in the base, the handset will either not charge or make a very high-pitched squealing noise. Thus, it requires us to make sure to finesse the set around in the base until we get a perfect match. On one occasion, the handset actually starting turning itself on every time I tried to place it in the charger. This can be frustrating, but once we learned the 'formula' for a correct charge we don't spend too much time on this issue. Another annoyance is the volume buttons on the handset emit a pretty loud beeping sound when you try to adjust it. Just make sure you are not standing near the baby's room while you do this.Sound Quality: Other reviewers have mentioned a problem with the sound being too low. I have had no problems with the level of sound and actually feel like the monitor is pretty smart. If there is music or sound playing in the room, the volume is pretty low. When the baby talks or cries, the machine senses that this is a voice and the output on the handset becomes louder. It can sometimes be a little too sensitive. My son often drops his pacifier on the floor after he falls asleep and the sound of it hitting the wood floor is so loud it is sometimes startling. I usually remove the pacifier from his crib when I know he is asleep for this very reason. I'm certain this has nothing to do with my son being close to the baby monitor as he is clear on the other side of the room. We have had no problems with interference from any devices or picking up any foreign signals. This is the primary reason we originally purchased this device.Overall, this monitor is not perfect , but it does do the job well enough. I haven't had the opportunity to try out any other brands so I can't compare, but I do think this was a good purchase despite the hefty price.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
If your baby's room varies in temp and humidity, you'll want this.
By S. Ng
Monitoring - Does the core purpose very well. Very impressed with this technology. Sound is clear and no static or buzzing. People have complained that it's not loud enough but I find it very suitable. It picks up sound very well (room is 8x10) and the unit is on one side of the room and baby on other. The unit doesn't have to be beside the baby to pick up the sound.Temperature - our nursery gets hot when the sun is out (faces west) so we wanted to make sure we would be first to know if it got too hot. You can set a range in temperature. If the temperature is outside of the range (either too hot or too cold), the hand unit will beep. Very handy when we are sleeping and the baby's room warms up quickly. We get alerted right away. Both the base unit and hand unit displays temperature and humidity.Humidity - very handy feature. During the winter, the air is dry. We were prompted to buy a humidifier by this device. It even helped us return a humidifier (crane penguin) that we found had no effect on humidity level. You can't be alerted of humidity levels going out of a range but I don't think its necessary.Extras:Lullabies - You can play different a few different songs but the duration was too short.Lights to audio - when the baby cries, the hand unit lights up as well. As the baby is louder, more lights light up (up to the max five lights). It's a nice feature to have. We have a set of headphones to watch the TV so as to not wake the baby. We just look for the lights to light up.Muting - you can mute the hand unit but if the baby cries loud (5 lights up) but the hand unit will beep.Intercom - When one parent is in the baby room and the hand unit is in the parent's room, you can have use the intercom feature to talk to one another.Battery - battery life is sufficient. Easily lasts a day off the cradle. We put it back on cradle located beside our bed to charge when we sleep. What does concern me is having to replace the battery. The batteries are NOT AA batteries. I hope we will be able to find a replacement battery when needed. Low batteries are signalled by a beep as well.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Told us our upstairs a/c blower motor went out! DECT is a MUST.
By Dean!
We love this device and have used it everyday for the past 6 months. I rarely give 5-star reviews, but this one is definitely 4.5 stars.Features we LOVE and WHY:==========================1. Temperature sensor and low/high alert ranges. We set the "high temperature alert" to 78 (I think you can set it as high as 84), because when the baby's room is 78 degrees it feels pretty warm. The reason I take off 1/2 star is because of the maximum low temperature setting, which is 66. That's right, the maximum you can set the "low temperature alert" is 66. Well, if our baby's room is 70degrees it's pretty dang cold in there. In winter, it might drop to 68 and that's really cold in her small room. Honestly, if we could set the "low temp alert" to 70, then I'd give this 5 stars as it would be a perfect device.2. Humidity sensor. This is our first baby and we are probably being overcautious, but hey this was on our baby registry and we are super glad we have this. You're supposed to keep a baby's room between 40% and 60% humidity. In winter, the room can drop to a fairly dry 18% and even in humid summers, it may only reach 38%. This device is our litmus test that our room humidifier still works...and it works great. The humidifier can bring a dry 18% humidity room to at least 38-44% and raise a summer room to 55% humidity or more. Our baby sleeps 8-12 hours a night (since 12 weeks old) and cradle cap is minimal and perhaps it helps keep her eczema at bay. She hasn't gotten sick and wakes up happy and laughing. I dunno if it is because of the humidity level, but hey, as first-time parents, we're happy she's happy.3. DECT wireless signal. This is a very important feature and should be the deciding factor in choosing something cheaper or not; you should always get DECT if you have wireless Internet. My wife and I both work from home a few days a week. We also got a wireless video baby monitor on our baby registry, but had to return it due to interference problems. You see, essentially every wireless *video* monitor I've researched (from Summer brand to even Philips) will transmit over 2.4ghz. 2.4ghz is the same as most in-home cordless phones and WIFI / wireless devices. As of this writing, ALL wireless IP protocols transmit at 2.4ghz, with the newest protocols like 802.11g and 802.11n transmitting at 2.4ghz and 5.0ghz. Unless your laptop is brand new, you likely do not have built-in wireless that transmits at only 5.0ghz. I know for a fact that my smartphone will only transmit WIFI at 2.4ghz as well as my wife's netbook.WHAT DOES THAT ALL MEAN?!??It means that when I run an Internet speed test with my laptop (sitting here at home), with no *video* baby monitor plugged in, I get the full 23-25mbs download speeds I am supposed to get. This is because there is no interference. If I plug in a *video* baby monitor, my Internet speed immediately drops to 8-12mbs and the WIFI on my smartphone will sometimes lock up while trying to re-transmit. Overall speed is slow. If you use VOIP (voice over IP) like Skype or Tango and such, you will fade in and out and likely not be audible. The reason is because the *video* baby monitor is transmitting at 2.4ghz and causing interference. Even choosing specific wireless channels on my Internet router is not helpful, because most *video* monitors do not allow you to choose a specific channel - rather, they jump to whichever channel it thinks is open.UHM, LET'S GET BACK TO WHAT DECT IS, GOOD OR BAD?!??DECT is a blessing! DECT is wireless that transmits at 1.9ghz. Meaning, it doesn't interfere with your wireless Internet or cordless phone at all. It means I can freely work from home and have no issues with Internet speed at all and perfect VOIP calls.WHY DO YOU KEEP BRINGING UP *VIDEO* BABY MONITORS??This product is audio only and transmits with DECT. I have not found any video baby monitor that specifically transmits with DECT. I wanted to bring that up to show the importance of why you should always choose DECT. (Leave a comment if you want to know how I did get interference free *video* monitoring for cheap)Battery Life:==============For our specific home, it's an open-floor style 2-story, so by turning down the sensitivity and using eco-mode, we can get a full week of battery life on the parent unit! The first day we got maybe 24 hours, but once I tweaked the sensitivity to our liking and turned on eco-mode, wow, a week of usage. Also, there's no worry about forgetting to recharge it, when the battery is low, it will beep every 5 seconds and flash "Battery Low" until you put it on the charger.The baby unit (the part that you leave in the baby's room) takes four AA-batteries as battery BACKUP, which is great, because sometimes we might have the baby in a different room and without having to move the crib and unplug the power adapter, we can just unplug the cord and use battery power. You can probably go 4-5 days on nothing but AA battery power, as we have done on occasion.Volume:=========We are very happy with the volume and it is a smart-volume. I thought the built-in Lullabies would actually turn the audio monitoring on, well if you've adjusted the sensitivity, the audio monitor won't turn on until the baby is actually crying. And when our baby cries, she cries. If she is just cooing and moving around and we don't hear that, oh well, we're enjoying our sleep. The LED lights also light up based on how loud she is crying, too.Walkie-Talkie and paging function:=====================================On the side is a push to talk function, which my wife and I have used a number of times for "can you go warm up some more milk?" or "I dropped the pacifier, can you bring up a clean one?" If you lose the parent unit, you can press the paging button on the baby unit and the parent unit will beep. (Or to get the attention of your significant other ;--) )OVERALL:==========Love this device. We wanted it mainly for the temperature and humidity monitoring and audible threshold alerts first. Second, was for the audio for when she cries. We used this even when she was in a bassinett in the same room the first night home to monitor the temp and humidity. We love this device for the peace of mind and it is almost a 5 star device.Most recently (which compelled me to write this review), we had put her to bed by 7:30pm and noticed the temp not lowering. (The baby room is upstairs and the master bedroom is down; 2 separate A/C units) I checked the Upstairs Thermostat and it was powered and I checked the breakers and they were not tripped (as what usually happens in past experience). The thermostat showed the A/C was running and I went outside and the upstairs unit had it's fans going strong, all indications that everything at least was running. A little while later, the parent unit is beeping because it reached 78deg in her room, which is very very unusual for the evening. Her room actually 'felt' fine, but the Avent told us otherwise. I didn't feel any airflow from the vents. We let her sleep downstairs with us that night and the next morning the A/C guy diagnosed a burnt-out capacitor that kept the blower motor from pushing any of the air. Had we not had the Avent with temperature alert set, we might not have ever known her room was getting hot. We live in Dallas where it can still be 99degrees at midnight and heat rises to the upstairs... Thank you Philips Avent DECT audio, temp, humidity alert monitor!!
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