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Our baby monitor stopped charging about 6 months into being used, but our daughter was sleeping through the night so we never bothered to replace it. Fast forward about a year later and we are transitioning her into her toddler bed. My husband wanted to have a monitor in there since she's a crazy sleeper and wanted to be able to check in on her so the search for a new monitor began. Our requirements for the monitor were that it should have 2 way talk, excellent picture quality, and the ability to pan/ tilt. Bonus points for showing the temperature in the room and being able to view it on our phones. After doing a ridiculous amount of research and reading countless reviews, we decided just to get an IP camera instead! Another grueling search lead me to the Amcrest IP2M-841 ProHD 1080P. It's been about a week and here are the things we like/ don't like so far... PROS: -Easy set up. I'd say that it probably takes about 5 mins to actually set this up. The hardest part for me was actually following directions and not just skipping things. For example, when it says that the default username and password is admin, that means you should actually type in admin for both and not just try to set up your own username and password... LOL -Picture quality is excellent. The night vision is a little grainy when viewed from a desktop, but it's clear enough for me to see if my daughter has her eyes opened or closed and looks really clear on my phone. -2 way talk. This was one of the main things we wanted to have in the camera so that we could tell our daughter to go back to bed without having to go upstairs every 5 seconds. -Able to view on the desktop as well as on our phones. Even though I almost always have my phone close by, I work on my laptop late into the night, so it's nice to be able to check in on her without draining my battery on my phone. -Customer service. Not nearly the painful experience I thought it was going to be and they fixed my problem. What a novel concept!! CONS: -Failed to connect. After the first couple of hours, the app on my phone would constantly give me the error message "Failed to Connect" each time I tried to view the live feed. I finally gave in and called customer service. Surprisingly, the wait wasn't horrible and the fix was super easy. All I had to do was log in on the desktop and do a manual reboot of the system. I did that on the first day and it hasn't given me the error message since. -Desktop program doesn't work on chrome. Ugh... NOT SO MUCH CONS, BUT I WISH IT HAD: -Temperature display -Completely wireless. I know I could get a camera that doesn't have the power cord, but I would have to give up quality, but I just wish I could have the same camera without an ugly power cord. -White. Apparently this camera comes in white even though the options given were only black and silver. When searching to forward the info for a friend, I found the white option and it was Prime.... CONCLUSION: The baby monitor breaking on us was probably one of the best things that could have happened. For half the price of a new baby monitor, we got almost everything we wanted! We took care of that issue by getting one of these :https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FT6YWDA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1. In fact, my husband loves it so much, we'll be purchasing more for the rest of the house and front door.