Baby sleep monitor sock full#
After the app’s relaunch, I was surprised to see full screen ads for Owlet products where the video feed should have been playing. One mild irritation was how the push notifications would occasionally pop-up full screen in the app to congratulate me for my child sleeping - which would also make the video feed disappear. There’s also a score assigned to the quality of that sleep that includes things like room temperature and noise levels in addition to your baby’s heart rate.
In my opinion the history section is a bit of a throw-away given there are no video clips to illustrate the quality of sleep, but you will get an indication of times the sock was put on and taken off. The bottom of the app features a few tabs, which I appreciate for simplicity’s sake. Scrolling down will give you heart rate information, as well as the Dream Sock base station stats, then the camera audio and Wi-Fi connection stats. The Home tab within the Owlet Dream app is quite cute with the live stream at the top, then a sleeping status arc showing how awake your child is, per movement and heart rate detected from the sock. I did feel the bug fix in the spring helped most of the connection issues, though the lag problems in audio and video remained. Suddenly I’d be reconnecting a broken link of a camera view in the app again and again, or closing the app and reopening. I found the camera easy to set up, as it connected on the first try, but once both the sock and base station were in play, the ease fell in my estimation. The camera doesn’t include a nightlight, sound machine or lullabies, which some parents really love it’s really just a basic camera you could just as easily use for security, though it includes temperature and humidity stats. That might not seem like much until you see how far an older baby can move in 5 seconds, or how quickly you’d like to get to him or her if the cry sounds serious. The camera’s main issue is that the sound is always on a hefty delay about 5 seconds altogether but occasionally more. Owlet allows for a pinch-to-zoom option when viewing your child in full screen, but I couldn’t tell if it’s a true zoom, or just blowing out the pixels of a fixed image. The view through Owlet’s camera seems standard for a baby monitor, if a bit fuzzy in comparison to some of its crisper competition. (There’s also a version of the Owlet app for Android.) I’m glad that the connection issues were resolved in an update, because the launch version of the app gave me an emotional hangover from not hearing my son cry- the exact opposite of what you want from a baby monitor. It’s a fairly stripped down version of a Wi-Fi baby monitor, and I ran into some reconnection issues initially, though those were addressed by a new version of Owlet’s iOS app (opens in new tab). Owlet’s camera can also be bought separately for $149 if you don't end up opting for the Dream Duo.
Owlet Dream Duo review: Video and audio quality Alerts came from both the base station and the app, if it was open and running on my phone. Different colors will indicate problems with bluetooth, a reading failure or that something could be wrong with the baby.
Baby sleep monitor sock Bluetooth#
Once the sock is on your baby’s foot, the base station will blink green while the bluetooth sensor connects, then slowly pulse to ensure readings are coming in clearly. I kept the sock connected to the base when not in use to ensure a full charge on the sensor, but even when I accidentally left it off there was a solid 14 hours left to go. It glows different colors to let parents know how well the sock is doing on your baby’s foot. The base of the sock features a small circle about the circumference of a chocolate chip cookie.
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