Withings WithBaby 4+

For the cost of this monitor there absolutely needs to be more attention given to its app development. No updates for almost 2 years (March 31, 2014).

I reached out to Withings and asked them about the app and they confessed that they have no current plans to update the app...

My biggest issue is connectivity problems. The inconsistency is annoying to deal with, having to restart and reset the camera to rectify.

Another issue for me
Is the lack of manual control over the features of this camera. For instance: brightness, contrast, night vision on/off, audio mute, audio AirPlay to Bluetooth device.

There are times where the camera will fluctuate between Night Vision and normal operation in situations where night vision is obviously necessary.

Another issue I've encountered is with the notification thresholds. I'm constantly notified for temperature changes that aren't actually happening and are reporting within the range I've specified. Have had to disable temperature notifications.

The camera/video quality is just OK, I've had better quality and functionality from other, much cheaper, WiFi cameras. I bought Withings' camera because I wanted to avert routing my video stream through China, as some manufacturers do, and go a more trusted route.

I'll contact support about these issues, but I think it's only honest that you know these things are happening before you spend a bunch of time and money.

Each time Withings updates this app something else goes haywire. I was an early adaptor to this product about two years ago when the app worked flawlessly. Since that time this product has become completely unreliable at best. The bottom line is that some people have absolutely no issues and they have a wonderful product. Others have a very expensive paper weight. I have been on both sides for quite sometime now and I could not recommend this product to any parent in good faith, it just isn't reliable! Whether it's connection issues or alerts not going off or going off at the incorrect time you can never feel at ease. The next issue is that Withings has been completely unresponsive to repeated pleas for help correcting these issues. Once again some people get a response from them and others like myself never get any response. There are other monitors out there that do a much better job, I unfortunately am stuck with them as I have a large amount of money sunk into two monitors that use to work great. Good luck to all those who in a similar situation, maybe one day the monitor and app will work again.

Wow, I'm stunned to read some of the poor reviews. We've had a few (less than 10) times that monitoring was disconnected in 18 months. The alerts got to be a little incessant until we figured out that we can edit/control the threshold sensitivity that generates an alert. You can ask it to alert you if there is low volume noise that lasts for 30 secs....or loud noise for 15 secs, or the humidity gets low...
You can change the music & its volume, or the nightlight and its brightness and color...or speak to your baby. The girls that help us with our kids all use it right from their cell phones and we can restrict their access when they are not here. Although it's not designed for this purpose, we have 1 grandparent that lives 800 miles away and we can tell her when we have all 3 playing in the baby's room and she can get a live glimpse at them if she just wants to see them.