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Graco Baby iMonitor Multi Child Multi Room Baby Monitor
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Manufacturer: Graco
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Model#: 2794DI
Weight: 3.50lbs
Height: 12" | | Width: 3"
Length: 11"
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Average Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
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Retail Price: $129.99
Online Sale Price: $106.79
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Features:- 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
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For moms with more than one child, the imonitorTM 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.
User Submitted Graco Baby iMonitor Multi Child Multi Room Baby Monitor Reviews
November 17, 2008
fine if you don't mind beeping from your units going out of range
I agree with another user that in theory this is the perfect monitor for those with two children that need monitoring. However, for us the dealbreaker was that every time we attempted to use the monitor at some point in less than a 15 minute period it would lose signal and beep that it was out of range. While our child's room is on a different floor, the distance was far less than the up to 2000 ft advertised. We attempted to change the channels a few times, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
There are a few other quirks with the monitor. I wish you could easily mute a room but still monitor with light levels. If your child is being attended to by your spouse you don't need to hear it, but may still want to keep tabs on the activity level.
Anyway, we took back the monitors because the frequent beeping was a dealbreaker for getting a good night's sleep. A monitor shouldn't fuss more than a baby. I'd rather have two different ones that work than a set that can't keep a signal.
November 16, 2008
Pretty good Monitor
Monitor works pretty well. The only problem I have with it is when it switches from room to room one of the rooms is very staticky for some reason... but other than that it works well.
October 12, 2008
Great monitor, easy set up
We bought this monitor for our two kids' rooms, and it works great. It was easy to set up and gets good reception. You can choose how long it monitors each room- from 10 seconds to 1 or 2 minutes. These parent units are portable so you can move them around easily if needed. It's nice to be able to monitor two rooms without having to have two separate monitors.
August 30, 2008
Buy two single room monitors
Bought the imonitor for a newborn and a three year old. I have a wireless network and cordless phones. Don't know if that played a part but the receivers kept losing their signal and as a result would beep loudly. Hard to sleep with the monitor losing the signal every five minutes. Returned it and bought another single room monitor for a third of the price that is crystal clear and both monitors monitor each roomm 100% of the time.
August 22, 2008
great item
I decided to risk the bad reviews and buy the imonitor and I'm so glad I did. We have a small house with 2 children and I don't have to even think about the monitors anymore. I have them set to monitor each room for 30 seconds at a time and haven't had to adjust them once since they arrived. If you read the instructions, you will have no trouble setting them up. You do NOT need to know anything about engineering (regarding a previous review). This is a great product for monitoring 2 children or 2 rooms.
August 20, 2008
EXCELLENT monitor
This monitor is wonderful. We have 3 1/2 yr old twin boys and 7 month old twin girls. This lets us monitor both bedrooms at the same time. I think the reception issues I read about have something to do with the area you live in. We're in northwest NJ and it has great reception unlike our cell phones. You can hear a pin drop in the kids rooms. The battery life is also working well for us.
We LOVE this monitor!!!!
August 19, 2008
Very disappointed
We bought this monitor so we could listen to both our toddler and newborn with one unit. However, I have been extremely disappointed with the performance of this monitor. The parent unit constantly loses the signal from the nursery units and starts beeping. I find that I am often moving the parent unit around trying to reconnect the signals; changing the channel does not help. There is only one wall between one of the parent units and the nursery unit and it still beeps! I have found it pointless to try to carry around the parent monitors with me since they lose the signals and don't work.
I would not buy these again.
August 7, 2008
Lost connection
This monitor lost connection frequently over a range of approximately 25 feet. I presume this is due to our wireless network, which works on the same frequency. Still, given the popularity of wireless networks, I expect these monitors to handle the interference.
August 6, 2008
like it better now than at first
We bought this item about a year ago. I had written a review back then, but it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, I did not like this baby monitor at first, mainly because it had an extremely short reach. I had to have it in line of sight in order to work, which made it almost useless, as I could hear the baby cry through the window at that point. We moved into a new house, but this didn't improve anything. Then all of a sudden things improved for some reason. It works now in any part of the house. I don't know what changed, it can't be interference. If anything we have now more interference then we used to have (wifi, BT devices, more celltowers were put up in the area). But anyway, here is my updated review:
pros:
- very good sound quality
- durable design
- LEDs (very useful when the volume is turned down)
- two sender/transmitter with automatic switching
- docking stations
- great toy
cons:
- short battery life (after one year it lasts maybe 10-15 minutes when out of the cradle - both units. However they are in the cradle almost always).
- limited range (works throughout most of the house now, but there are still some spots where it does not work, but the old analog baby monitor works fine.
- user interface not intuitive
About the user interface I need to mention that I am a very technical person and as a male of course didn't read the manual at first. I did not figure it out without reading the manual later on. My wife, who is not as technical, read the manual and had no problem at all using the system.
My son is now 18 months old, when he wakes up, one of his first routines is to walk to our bedroom and get the baby monitor. He has always been fascinated with it, since it makes sounds when you push buttons, and has lights. And the way it looks, it could be any of his toys. Several times it happend that when he was done playing with it, he drowned it in a glass of water. After disconnecting the battery and letting everything dry for a while it works still perfectly fine. It had no impact on the battery life, as it is the same as the other unit (which was never exposed to water).
So after using this product for over a year, I have to say, I am quite happy with it. The negative points are a little annoying but the positive points by far outweigh them.
July 27, 2008
confusion in the beginning, but it finally works well for us
We've had this product almost a year and, until recently, it has not worked well for us. We've hardly used it because we've had to endure frequent and annoying beeping every 1 to 2 minutes. It seemed that the parent units just could not maintain connection with the nursery units. Now that my son is moving into a new bedroom that is beyond earshot of the master bedroom, we need a baby monitor we can use at night (i.e. no beeping!). I decided to check into this problem one more time before breaking down and buying a new monitor.
After reading the reviews on this website and re-reading the owners manual (more carefully this time), I was able to eliminate the "out of range" beeping. Basically, we didn't realize that the parent unit alternates between the two nursery units, so you only listen to one room at a time (instead of listening to them simultaneously). So, the parent unit was losing signal every 1 or 2 minutes because it was searching for the nursery unit we had never turned on (since we didn't need it yet).
It would be great if the wording on the packaging and the owner's manual were clearer about this feature. Now that we've figured it out, it's not a problem. The monitor works great by my bedside at night. It alternates between my son's room and the nursery with no beeping. No crackling. No interference.
The battery life is a bit short, it seems. But, we leave them in the cradle most of the time anyway.
The belt clip on this product is not designed well. It's so short that, if you clip it to the waste of your pants, the slightest bend at the waist will cause the parent unit to pop off. I just hold it in my hand or put it in my pocket instead. It's less than ideal but it works.
One positive thing about this monitor--a few months ago, one of the parent units popped off the waist line of my shorts when I bent over and it fell into the swimming pool. I quickly grabbed it up and put it in a RubberMaid bowl full of rice with the lid askew. After a couple of days, I turned it on and it seems to work just fine.
Bottom line, it took almost a year and a little research into a problem, but this product is finally working well for us. I hope Graco can clear up the wording on the package and in the owner's manual so that the method of "simultaneous" monitoring is clear. This would have saved us 9 months of stress over money wasted on this product. Maybe I should have read the instructions more carefully, but the wording should also be more explicit.
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