Baby monitors

I want to get ahead and buy my baby monitor asap but im torn between a wifi monitor and non wifi monitor as ive heard the wifi ones can be hacked? What did you chose or will chose

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Non wifi, we opted for vtech as it was reasonably priced and does the job

We have a BT monitor, you can download an app to use it via wifi, or if you don’t want to, you just use the parent unit. So you can choose either way.

Ours is non Wi-Fi and we love it. It is leapfrog we have chosen.

Non WiFi Vetch from Boots. It was about £50 and hs been perfect. We chose to avoid WiFi monitors for the same reasons

Had a wifi camera for 3.5 years and never had a problem with it being ‘hacked’

Mines on wifi- nanit. Absolutely love it :)

Ours is WiFi CuboAI! Absolutely love it… and it looks cute 🥰

https://www.madeformums.com/reviews/cubo-ai-plus-smart-baby-monitor-review/

Love nanit

We had WiFi but 2 cameras broke in 4 months so got the £50 vtech non wifi one and it's been great. Picture isn't the best quality but does everything you need.
Also with the WiFi one, as soon as we had Internet issues, obviously we couldn't access the cameras and it led to a lot of stress!

Wouldn’t risk Wi-Fi xx

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