No thank you. Baby monitors should not be connected to the internet, rely on machine learning to make decisions for you, or rely on push notifications to gain your attention. Keep them simple, local, reliable, and dumb AF. In this use case, less is most definitely more.
I ended up getting a simple video monitor from BT that is an "appliance" - it's not got a wifi connection or an app.
It works great! And it'll keep working until we don't need it. No software updates, no discontinued support, no questionable data storage policies on chinese servers. Just a monitor.
And it turns out that once the baby's passed ~4 months, the video isn't too important anyway. It's mostly "Is he crying or not".
Exactly, my #1 criteria for a baby monitor was that it does not connect to the internet! Maybe not enough parents have heard how people hack home networks and terrorize children through cameras.
Thanks. This is just a hard no immediately. Not only for the health of the child, but does ML have to be the solution for everything? I think a Rube Goldberg machine would be more reliable than this.
I received a hand me down Motorola baby monitor + camera. It doesn't connect to the Internet. It'll beep if the camera is disconnected. The monitor has power save capability (video feed off, sound on), let me know if power is low....It has everything I need. I just needed to replace the battery for a very cheap price because the charge didn't hold as long.
