Version two will have noise detection. Baby cries, monitor plays soothing music for 5 minutes. If that doesn’t calm the baby, electric shock parents to wake up and change/feed baby
Upcoming release: Eufy Security Baby Monitor [Update: new pictures and manual!]
No electric shock needed. As soon as the baby is born, we evolve very sensitive reflexes to the baby crying.
The baby monitor I have now has soothing music, I can choose from 5 lullabies to try to get the baby back to sleep without us having to go there. Except it’s useless, much like the two-way audio on the monitor we have. The sound quality is horrible, the song will play distorted notes even at the lowest volume. Our voice through such a low-quality audio system would only startle the baby even more.
I hope Eufy’s two-way audio delivers better sound!
this is a great new product line from Anker, hope this was available when my kids were born
Hmm, the price point is a little high in my opinion. Couldn’t you keep the price down by using an app instead of the stand-alone parent unit? I’m not looking for another device to charge either…
Can video be stored on a cloud? How secure is it? Is it free? I’ve seen other companies who have security concerns with the storage of video, so Anker may want to be especially cautious of that (in particular with parents and their kids).
Just some thoughts
From what I understand, there’s no internet connection, thus no app.
But, since you mentioned, my two cents on the app-only baby monitors: parents want to be sure they can tend to their little ones as fast as possible. Before buying the monitor we choose, I researched a lot of options and read tons of reviews. The app-only monitors do have the advantage of one less device and being able to watch from anywhere, but they come with a huge disadvantage: latency. I even got to test a device who had both a parent unit and could send the images to the internet to be viewed from an app or even in a browser. The latency on that particular model was over one second, when the internet connection was optimal. And that’s considering you have the app/browser already on all the time. One second might not look like much, but it’s plenty of time for a hungry baby to go from sad-hungry to crazy-mad-hungry. But that’s not all. If you rely on the notifications, no matter how much you fine-tune the sensibility on the sensors, there was over 15 seconds of delay between the event and the notification. If a lot can happen in one second, imagine 15 and over. I guess having to pass through multiple servers across the globe until coming back to appear on your phone is fine for Facebook notifications, but not for a crying baby. If you leave your phone on the app the whole time - you would have to keep touching the screen to prevent it from closing automatically - your phone battery would discharge pretty fast. I guess we don’t want that, either.
In the parent unit there was also latency, but of a few milliseconds tops, and it did not varied since it was a direct connection. And the sound is always on - the screen turned off after some time to save battery - so we could be sure to listen to any calls as soon as they happened.
And that’s not to mention the security issues. So far, from what I read, there’s no perfect solution. There will always be vulnerability. And while the chances of one particular unit getting hacked are low - unless you are some celebrity - I particularly don’t want to take that risk.
Good to hear that it will be available in several locations!
I’m also looking forward to other eufy Security products we expect to learn more about in the near future!
Awesome! I look forward to hearing more about this monitor. I researched a ton of monitors before my son was born and felt like I ended up settling on something as I was never blown away with one. We’re going to have another child here shortly so we’re going to look to possibly dump our old one as it’s become more of a burden than a blessing.
My pain points with ours is definitely a lack battery-life and sketchy connectivity through our house which is fairly modest. I’m a huge fan of the products Anker produces so look forward to seeing reviews or testing to see what the Eufy Security Baby Monitor can do.
I’d love to test this (well, my stepdaughter would love to try this with Lyra, our 16wk grandchild).
We use a security camera as our baby monitor. When ours was younger, we would leave the iPad on all night (plugged in of course). The latency aspect has never been an issue for us. The benefit for us is being able to see the camera whenever we want (ie outside sitting around the fire pit).
This could be a very very useful product, and very functional, personally i think that two-way audio is very important, because you can listen but if you want tell something to your son…
Then he can think the walls are talking to him! lol
Awesome! Just in time my brother and his new wife are expecteding their first baby in March.
Lol, he will think that
Post updated with new pictures and a link to the manual!
Our current baby monitor drives us nuts because of the poor video quality, short range, and terrible battery life that it has to be plugged in 24/7 anymore. Going to continue to keep an eye on when this becomes available as it looks to cross off a bunch of our pain points with our current baby monitor.
Love that idea! I could use an alarm clock that does that as well. Are you listening Anker!
With the most likes on this thread, Anker is obligated to make it happen
New update! The Amazon US page is live to order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GBP3GH9 And it got an official name: eufy Security SpaceView Baby Monitor
The price is $169.99!
Not appearing on Amazon.ca yet. Fellow community members in Germany, France and UK, do you see it?
Not showing in the UK but it’s normally 2wks to 1-2 months for new products to pop up in the UK after a US release…
Update: eufy Security’s SpaceView Baby Monitor is available to order right now via Amazon US for a cost of $134.99, and should begin shipping on September 23.