Reviews for Philips In.Sight Wireless HD Baby Monitor

It should be criminal to sell this product as a baby monitor. The title should read: Philips in.sight Wireless aggravation that wont work for more than an hour and keep you up all night

This thing is awful. I want my money back!

it is not in real time it has like 5 seconds late to the movement your seeing

Read these reviews and the app reviews. This thing is a joke as a baby monitor. I'm sitting here at 4 AM awake and frustrated because the app won't stream video any longer. This monitor was my back up plan and the video I have been using to see my child while traveling. Our main monitor failed earlier this week and while waiting for a warranty replacement, I've tried using this. Absolute junk, the software to support this hardware. Again, read the comments on here. Even with that limited purpose, if two devices have the app open in iOS (not even active) and they have not completely killed the app in their "active apps", a third device can't get in. Seriously, the product (the camera) is OK (quality video and audio) but the whole app (and the website for computers) is terrible. Apple, you need to quit selling this product. This does not work anything close to 'as advertised'.

Again, Do Not Plan To Use This As A Baby Monitor, I implore you. You will be frustrated, disappointed and, quite likely, very angry. I know I am.

This product is specifically marketed as a baby monitor, and I will review it as such. I purchased the In.Sight baby monitor this past Saturday for our 8-month-old daughter's room. She is teething right now and sometimes wakes up at night crying very loudly as if something traumatic has happened. We have an Angel Care audio monitor, but we also wanted a video monitor so we can quickly and easily discern whether her life was truly in peril or if she was just having another episode of teething pain.

We bought the monitor from a retail store and brought it home. It took about 30 minutes to get it installed, set up, and running. Not too bad. However, I noticed very quickly that sound from the In.Sight monitor lagged about 10-15 seconds behind the sound from the Angel Care monitor. Additionally, the video signal seemed to lag another 15-30 seconds behind the already lagging audio. On top of all that, from the time I open the App on my iPod Touch 5 to when it finally displays live video ranged anywhere from 1-5 minutes! Sometimes it wouldn't display live video at all until I closed and relaunched the app. This did not seem like a very functional monitor, and I was already debating if I should return it.

The kicker came in the middle of the night Saturday night. We awoke to my daughter's loud crying through the Angel Care monitor (we had the audio off on the In.Sight since we didn't need two audio sources). I attempted to bring up the video on my iPod Touch to check on her. However, the app just sat there with that annoying circling graphic that means "loading" for about two minutes. Finally, the video came up, but the screen was all black. The infrared night vision wouldn't activate. After another minute of thumb-tapping and cursing, I gave up and went in to the baby's room. Turns out she was already almost back asleep, and me entering the room just woke her back up.

Anyway, I took it back to Apple the next day. This In.Sight monitor SHOULD NOT BE USED as a baby monitor! If you insist on using it, make sure you have a secondary "regular" monitor running in parallel. This product is a lawsuit waiting to happen. The potential exists for someone's child to be dead before they ever get any warning that there is a serious problem via the In.Sight monitor. I expressed my concerns to the kind gentleman who helped me with my return at Apple. Believe it or not, he ACTUALLY told me I should tell other potential customers about these issues. SO, that is why I am posting here!

I don't often write reviews but felt compelled to warn other about this. Seemingly simple set up with only a few steps but could not get to monitor to connect. Very little troubleshooting info available on the directions sheet. Scanned youtube for setup instructions and found only a couple options.

Tried to adjust my wifi to various b/g/n configurations as recommended, tried installing on iPad iOS 5, iphone 4 iOS 5, iPhone 4s iOS 6 and and iPhone 5 iOS 6. Could not get this to come close to working with any of them.

Will be returning promptly tomorrow.

Also - it is not advertised on the box but is shown in the initial setup - the free ap allows up to 2 users to view and only for up to 5 min on 3G. You must pay 24.95 a year for the upgraded ap to allow more users or longer 3G viewing.