I live in a two level house and have a 2.5 yr old daughter and infant son, currently in seperate rooms. How can I use a monitor with both when I am downstairs or at night from my own bedroom? Buy two; will they interfere? Is there an easier way?
I know its expensive, but you could have a sound monitor for the older one and a video monitor for the younger one. Worth thinking about I suppose?????
you can buy two of the same monitors and then have two bases one for upstairs and one for down. As long as you can tell the difference between who is fussing it should be okay. There are even some sets that have more than one of the monitors. Check the internet
That is how I do it... one monitor for each child, just conect them as far away from each other so you don't have interference...& have each one on a different channel!!!
Love, G.. :0)
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You can purchase a monitor that can work for two rooms. I have one made by Graco and it swithches between rooms on different channels. You can also make it work for just one room too if you need to. You can also adjust the length of time it monitors each room before switching and the volume. It's a bit pricey (around $100)but may save you from running up and down the stairs.
We bought a safety first moniter from babies r us that has 5 units total. 3 pick up sound and 2 are for listening. You can set the listening models to scan each of the 3 units or have it set to listen to just 1 unit. Each unit is color coded so that you can tell which room the noise is coming from. My only complaint is that I wanted to have both types of units in our family room and they would interfere with each other. As long as you only keep one unit in each room they work fine. Good Luck:)
I have a two year old and a four year old. When we brought the yougest home, we put the monitor in the baby's room and the receivers (our monitor came with two) went in our bedroom and one in the kitchen. We turned up the volume and could hear everything upsairs.
Hi S.,
I couldn't live without my video monitor. Mine has 4 different channels so you actually have for different cameras and only one monitor. Mine is a portable one from BebeSounds that I've had for 3 yrs. My mom recently bought me one from Moby because I have dropped my monitor so many times I need to send it in for some work. Some people will say that they are a waste of money ($180.00) but it has been a life saver for me. I don't leave it on all the time, just turn it on to check on her.
Sincerely,
L.
We used to use two at the same time and never had a problem, we just set them to different channels. Our neighbor must have the same monitor as us though since on one channel we pick up their household, so beware if others have theirs on the same frequency as you, you will be able to pick up each other's houses, so it is always a good idea to turn them off when not in use.
I would just buy another one and as long as they are on different channels then they won't interfere.
They make multi-room monitors, such as this one:
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2605793
I don't find the one I bought three years ago, but it worked nicely. You could keep it on one channel (room), or scan the channels.
L.
