Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a great product with two major flaws. Pros - -very easy setup (make sure you are using the 2.4GHz band and not the 5GHz if your router has dual bands -very reliable - we had no issues that were due to the iBaby... any issues were from the router and were easily fixed -app works great - this is the best part... the iphone app is excellent (I assume android as well) - it is easy to use, quick to show the video, easy to set alerts, and requires a reasonably small amount of bandwidth (ie, don't use it all day on cellular, but it won't eat your data for the month if you check it from time to time) Cons - minor - no OSX or desktop app that I can find. I think people can run emulators for android to get it to work but on OSX I haven't had any luck albeit with very little effort. major - it can't look down - of course it can't turn 360 in all directions, but you'll never have your baby monitor under the bed, so why did they allow it to look directly up and not down. This makes it very difficult to use on a shelf above the crib. Ours is above the door on a shelf of it's own and we had to prop it up with paint stir sticks to get it to see the entire bed on the other side of the room. This wouldn't be a problem if they had wall mounting hardware but they do not and with the way it connects I do not believe it will be able to be mounted sideways so that it would ever be able to look down. major - it has a bright blue light that flashes rapidly at random intervals - blue light is the worst wavelength of light for sleep, as I assume everyone knows. Parents are supposed to limit exposure to blue light wavelengths for at least 30 minutes (some studies say longer) before the child is supposed to be going to bed. Now, we have a wifi indicator which irregularly flashes a bright blue LED all night in our daughter's room. In a dark room it's a pretty significant light. I have spoken with iBaby about it and they were willing to RMA my unit and give me one without the new light for a 20% restocking fee. So they apparently make units without the blue light but decided to put it in for some units. Note, there is already a wifi indicator light next to the plug in the back. It is read and flashing when it is connecting or not connected to a network and glows green when it's connected. This is fine, it's not distractingly bright, and green light is fine for sleep. I cannot get them to explain to me why they put in a redundant wifi indicator in a horrible color for sleep. Their remedy was to tape over the entire bottom of the unit (the area responsible for heat dissipation and where the speakers are located. I would return the unit if I could but we got it 3 months before our daughter was born and we are past the point of return. This may seem minor, but if you have a white shelf that it sits on, white walls or a white ceiling, then the the unit will light up the entire corner. This is such as easy fix for them. If they fix this and the wall mount issue then it would be a 5 star item. I gave it two stars instead of one because it has a lot of good qualities if you use it during the day. Black, non-reflective tape on the surface it sits on will help reduce the blue, flashing light.