eufy Baby 17+

UPDATE: After a year of torment, they finally fixed the app so it runs on your Mac again. The importance of this cannot be understated. This means that you can pull up the app on your Mac, watch you babies from a big screen and powerful speakers, and free up your phone to make calls and everything else we use our phones for. Because Eufy is one of the only company's to allow this feature, it makes it leaps and bounds beyond its competition. I'm not sure if they got a new programmer in the group, but whoever fixed this problem deserves a raise or a bonus (or maybe some extra vacation days!).

Previous review: This app ran wonderfully on Mac M1s forever, now with the most recent update, it stopped working on Macs. The app already suffers from an easily solvable problem--the video cannot stay open while using other apps on the iPhone. Most other video apps allow for that feature. The solution, however, was easy enough. You could run the app on your Mac, and simply use your phone as you prefered. Indeed, the screen on the Mac is much bigger, so the 2K capabilities of the camera were really utilized. I hope your engineers will fix this asap, and get the app running on Mac M1s again, or get the video to work on the iPhone when using other apps. I'll gladly update my review to 5 stars again when that happens.

I had the owlet and this is significantly better! Wish I switched sooner. Cry detection works and notifies my phone. I like how it records key crying events. Video quality is great. Love that you can adjust where the camera is pointing on the app (owlet you had to manually do it and it was annoying). App works on my phone and iPad. I can get the volume of the video to work and get the video to full screen mode on my phone all the time. Sometimes I can get the video full screen on my iPad but not always but it’s fine because I can still see my baby. Sometimes the volume doesn’t work on the iPad but if I just exit out of the app and reopen it it works again. It’s easy to manually install on the crib and bassinet. I moved it to different locations in the house depending on where baby sleeps.

I’m so happy we went with the eufy sock and monitor over the competing monitors. I’m a nurse, so it felt natural for me to monitor my baby with a pulse ox vs a respiratory monitor on the nanit. While some may say it’s overkill, it gave me peace of mind and therefore sleep when I had the worst postpartum anxiety.

My only feedback would be for them to add a “test” alarm button on the base so you can hear a sample of what you should expect should your baby’s vitals fall outside normal parameters. It has not sounded a false alarm at all, which I was told one of the competing socks had issues with causing greater anxiety, so we are unaware of what that alarm would sound like.