Nest Cam solely as a baby monitor

Nest Cam solely as a baby monitor
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Every parent who's ever wondered, "What happens with my kid when the lights go out?" has two options: Stake out the child's room Navy SEAL-style or install a video baby monitor to keep watch when your eyes can't be there in person. A mounted camera can beam live video from your child's room to a handheld viewer or your smartphone — or both.
After a month of testing six products, our choice for the best baby monitor is the $199 iBaby Monitor M6T. iBaby's monitor, which taps into a smartphone to help you check in on your child at night, boasts an impressive array of features, including 360-degree pans and crisp images, even in night mode. This all comes at an attractive price. Our runner up, the Motorola MBP853 Connect, costs about the same and gives you the option of picking with battery like Philips A3 Battery, Philips M3516A Battery, Philips M4735A Battery, Philips ME202C Battery, Philips Pagewriter 100 Battery, Philips Pagewriter 200 Battery, Philips Pagewriter 300 Battery, Philips Suresign VS2 Battery, Philips Suresign VS3 Battery, Philips Suresign VM4 Battery, Philips Suresign VM6 Battery, Philips Suresign VM8 Batteryup video streams from either your phone or a dedicated handheld viewer.
In an age in which home-security cameras are getting ever smarter and packing in more features, you may wonder why you'd even need to consider a dedicated video monitor. Why not repurpose an existing home security camera, the thinking goes, and set that up in my child's room instead? To put that approach to the test, we also evaluated the Nest Cam as a baby monitor alongside our other models. As our top choice among wireless home security cameras, the Nest Cam gives us a good opportunity to see how a general camera compares to a model created specifically to monitor kids.
The Nest boasts some impressive hardware specs, such as true 1080p/30fps video and a 3-megapixel camera sensor. Setting up the Nest Cam specifically to look in on a 2-year-old at night, we found the video quality on Nest's camera to be sharper and more detailed than on any baby video monitor we tested. Also significantly, some of the Nest Cam's features overlap with those that most parents will want to consider in a video baby monitor.
The Nest Cam includes push-to-talk features as well as alerts triggered by motion or sounds. And when your child is past the age when you need a nighttime monitor, you can repurpose the Nest Cam to check in on other parts of your home — something that's difficult to do with a monitor designed specifically to watch over infants.
That said, when we tested the Nest Cam solely as a baby monitor, we learned that despite its strengths as a home security camera, it's not created specifically for parents. You can't take still photos or record custom video clips out of the box (although the latter can be done with a pricey annual subscription). Plus, there's no way to trigger kid-friendly music to soothe your crying child, and the camera's sound quality is average at best.