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amykt 
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Posted: 11 June 2010 at 10:05pm |
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I'm looking at updating our baby monitor and ideally would like a digital one with a temperature sensor in it that shows on the parent unit. I came across the Phillips Avent SCD520 (cheapest at Baby City for $181) but am wondering if there are any other brands with this feature?? I don't really wanna pay more than the Avent one.
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Posted: 12 June 2010 at 4:40pm |
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Our Angelcare sound and motion monitor does, but it is more than your advent one...
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Posted: 12 June 2010 at 5:58pm |
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Oh really? I didn't realise that the Angelcare one had that, I'll have to look into it. Looks like the special online at Baby City has finished anyway as I just checked now and it's gone back up to $259 - weird!
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Posted: 12 June 2010 at 6:26pm |
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I just purchased a clock thingy that has a digital thermometer on it - as $5 from paper plus! Works a treat.
ETA - that probably is not an option if you need a new monitor tho!!!
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Posted: 12 June 2010 at 9:52pm |
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I bought an Oricom one which has all the bells and whistles the same as the Phillips just not the price tag - It's fantastic!
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Posted: 12 June 2010 at 10:16pm |
Our Tommee Tippee one has a thermometer on it but it's not on the parent bit it's on the mic bit in baby's room iygwim... We paid about $250 I think for it... Can't remember!!
ETA it also has a night light too 
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Posted: 13 June 2010 at 9:06am |
Itchy_feet: I was just looking into the Oricom ones last night and a few people had made comments that the unit continuously beeps if the temp in babies room is too high/low? Does that get annoying? And when you turn the parent unit off does it reset the time? Do you know if you can control the lullabies/nightlight from the parent unit? Is the battery life good? Sorry for all the questions - I haven't come across anyone that has one yet!
I'd love to know your pros and cons! 
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Posted: 13 June 2010 at 3:52pm |
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I have the Oricom 500...haven't actually used it yet as the baby is still on its way, but it does beep when the temperature drops or increases but you set the temperature range...and you can turn the beeps off so it vibrates instead.
And yes, you can control the nightlight and the lullabies from the parent unit.
I don't know about the battery life as I haven't used it yet...
I bought it off babystuff.co.nz - it was on special from $220 to $149. I think they're in the process of redoing their website at the moment though...
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Posted: 14 June 2010 at 2:50pm |
 Itchy_feet wrote:
I bought an Oricom one which has all the bells and whistles the same as the Phillips just not the price tag - It's fantastic! |
Ditto! Its awesome.
amykt - yes it does beep when temp too high or too low, and yes it gets annoying BUT it's generally temps that you'd want to do something about anyway. Ours beeps at 16 degrees and at 28 - I'd either want to warm up the room or cool down anyway, and generally onto it before the thing beeps.
You can control the songs and night lights from parent unit with the more sophisticated one (our is just the basic one but PIL have the fancy one).
Battery life is pretty good on both - a few hours. We only run it on batteries when we take it with us when we go out, and we get maybe 4-5 hours out of it... maybe longer but we never had reason to let batteries run out.
Hope this helps!
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Posted: 14 June 2010 at 8:46pm |
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Thanks so much guys - sounds like the Oricom is pretty good. Do you know what kind of range it has?
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Baby Monitor with Temperature Sensor?
