Uniden Baby Watch Smart Monitor review (BW6101R)

Gosh, what did our parents do before 2K baby monitors with white noise and room temperature displays hit the shelves? Sing lullabies themselves?! How times have changed.

I jest. There’s something remarkable about the technology that allows the Uniden Smart Baby Monitor to be so much more than just a way to keep an eye on your (hopefully!) sleeping baby from another room.

The Uniden Baby Watch Smart Baby Monitor retails in Australia for $399.95. It's available through Baby Bunting, Catch, The Good Guys and direct through Uniden. 

This is the number one reason you’d purchase the Uniden Baby Watch. The camera quality is *chef’s kiss*. Even at night when there’s very little light in the nursery, the visuals were extremely clear thanks to the Night Vision capabilities. This was very noticeable when we compared it to the baby monitors that friends used - the difference was stark. While we didn’t ever use this feature, you can pop in an SD card and record video and take photos of your little cherub sleeping (or as was often the case with us, rolling around throwing his dummy down the side of the cot).

This is top-of-the-range stuff, and if video quality is a deciding factor for your baby monitor, then the Uniden baby monitor could be a real contender.

This is one of the more disappointing features. While the screen device can last through the night (if you turn the screen off and just have alerts turned on) we’re lucky to get half an hour of battery from the actual camera when it’s not plugged in. It’s the trade-off for having such a high quality visual. This isn’t such a problem at home where we can have the camera plugged in all night - it became more problematic when we travelled and needed to find a powerpoint close enough to the cot - sometimes trickier than it sounds in the various motels and AirBnB’s we’ve stayed at.

There’s the option to switch the device to a battery saving mode, which is sound only - but if you’re purchasing this for the high quality visuals, then, what’s the point?

The connectivity was a little hit and miss. At home in our apartment, there were no complaints - (and given we are in a small two-bedder, I would hope that would be the case.)

We ran into problems when we stayed at my mum’s, who had a granny flat for us to stay in away from the main house, (roughly 20 metres). This of course is when we actually needed the monitor - at home if bub cries we’ll hear it anyway, but away in a separate dwelling, we relied heavily on the monitor. It was just a touch too far away, and we had to find a tiny corner in the laundry of the main house to place the monitor so it wouldn’t lose connection constantly. Even then it dropped in and out, even though the granny flat wasn’t *that* far away.

If you’re using this at home and bub is in the same house as you, you’re unlikely to have connectivity issues.